So welcome back everybody. A new year and a new shuffle up of my blogs. A few things have happened here:
I’ve deleted all my posts containing original prose.
The main reason for this is that I’d like to take my writing offline for a while. Like onto lined paper and good old hand cramp.
All WoW-related posts are heading over to Need Relish.
Need Relish ( www.needrelish.net ) was always supposed to be my main WoW blog, so I’ve set it up again and am intending to try and keep it updated. Bookmark me if you looking for WoW -related content. :)
This blog is now going to be a rambling one.
If I want to write about it (and it’s not WoW-related) it will live here. I can’t be bothered having a mountain of blogs anymore. Two is enough.
Just felt like I needed a mission statement. Enjoy :)
Went out today with the intention of timing myself for a 3km race in my local park next week. You don’t pre-register, you just turn up with your two shiny pounds and run around a few times. I figured I’d time myself to see if it was worth entering. The slowest time on the last 2 races has been around 21mins. In theory I can make that, 7min/km isn’t new to me. Maybe a stretch, but not new.
I made 1km and threw in the towel.
I’m gutted, but I think I started out a tad fast. I’m going to get out and have another go tomorrow. The park still stinks from all the flooding too. The mud’s also thick, but I still don’t want to run on the pavement too much. I did manage a 6:45-ish kilometre though. I guess it’s not all bad.
I’ll have another go tomorrow. Hopefully I can will myself the whole way around :S
Here’s the graph!
Gyms are a foriegn place to me. I only stepped foot in a gym for a few weeks while I was in uni, in a desperate attempt to “turn myself around”. Obviously, I didn’t stick at it. Though, to be fair, I had lots of studying and gaming that needed to be done.
So a few months ago I did the gym induction at my local gym. I think my reasoning was that when the weather got worse I’d have somewhere to retreat to and no excuse not to do my running. Well over the past few days the weather has been atrocious. I’ve been there, hard at work on the treadmill. I’ve also noticed one or two things about gym users. Like the ones who give me dirty looks when I’m just plodding along, slowly eating up the kilometers. They jump on, pound away for 15mins and then jump off. I’m there for at least 25mins more than them, and I want to keep my knees and lungs. Also, nobody wears the safety cord on the treadmills. It’s a cord that clips onto your top, so if you fall off it pulls the emergency stop on the machine. Going at the speed some of them do, I’d imagine that’d be a concern.
Running on treadmills also seems to be deceptively easy. I can run 30mins on a treadmill, while I struggle to make 20mins outside. Maybe it’s because you can set your speed and you have all this information in front of you. Who knows? I just don’t want to get too comfy with it. I’ll think I’m amazing, and then when I come to run I’ll struggle horribly.
I should probably weigh myself now…