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B210K: wk2, run1

distance: 7.28 km, time: 00:57, pace: 07:50, calories: 740, effort: 5/5
Tired, now. It was a long run and I was puffing like crazy at the end.
Some arsehole in a 4wd yelled out his window at me for about a minute because I ran past him on a zebra crossing. This is the first time this has happened to me running rather than cycling.
I didn’t yell back, mostly because I was 2mins from home and puffed, but I kept thinking ‘wish he’d check his speedo for me – I bet I’m pwning this’.
Why do these sorts of arseholes think the worst insult they can yell at a woman is ‘fat cow’? Particularly when they’re _stitting_ in a car?
Motorists are fuckwits. I, however, am a running ninja. 7km _and_ I pwned the patriarchy. All in one run.

8track: strings and clapping for running

Image from shorpy, though I almost went with this.

I actually listen to the songs in the following order. That way they start mellow and get crazier, so I can wake up gently, then get my arse kicked a bit when I start to lag later on.

Thulandivile (Keep Quiet I’ve Heard You) Elite Swingers Natural Jazz 131 2:39

Dinah Preservation Hall Preservation Hall Hot 4 With Duke Dejan 154 2004 5:01

Eh la bas Preservation Hall Jazz Band Shake That Thing 191 2004 3:52

Baby (Darlin’) Baby Midnight Serenaders Sweet Nothin’s 243 2009 3:16

A Mug Of Ale Joe Venuti’s Blue Four All Star Jazz Quartets (disc 3) 220 1927 3:07

Coffee’s Cold/Tater Patch Uncle Earl Going to the Western Slope 254 2004 3:08

Double Check Stomp The Pasadena Roof Orchestra Rhythm Is Our Business! 228 1996 3:59

The Love Me Or Die C.W. Stoneking Jungle Blues 153 2008 3:55

El Pito (I’ll Never Go Back To Georgia) Joe Cuba Crooklyn: Vol. I 157 1966 5:33

If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Linnzi Zaorski and Delta Royale (Charlie Fardella, Robert Snow, Matt Rhody, Seva Venet, Chaz Leary) Hotsy-Totsy 129 2004 2:36

The Clapping Song Shirley Ellis Because Of Winn-Dixie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 168 2005 3:11

Drinker Born Uncle Earl Waterloo, Tennessee 2007 3:22

Stay A Little Longer Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys The Tiffany Transcriptions (vol 2) 232 3:07

Some of These Days Midnight Serenaders Sweet Nothin’s 255 2009 3:29

El Panadero Cheba Massolo Coyazz 202 2008 2:32

B210k: week1, run2

distance: 6.39 km, time: 00:53, pace: 08:18, calories: 688, effort: 5/5
Man, it kicked it my arse. But it was good and I didn’t stop running in the running bits. Running later in the day to avoid the rain meant running in the heat and humidity and I SWEATED so much.
Some aches in my bad foot – makes me think I should revisit the podiatrist to have my orthotics checked (it’s been a year).
My shins were a bit achey before I started. I don’t do any warm up stretches, but lots of warm down stretches. I think I need to do proper warm ups, beyond the 5minutes walk.
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B210k: wk1, run1

distance: 6.35 km, time: 00:53, pace: 08:20, calories: 688, effort: 5/5
Good! Something strange happened to the ipod app partway through so I think I ended up running further than I planned. I didn’t hear the halfway tone, and when I checked I was over the halfway point. Then the ipod reset itself. Bah.
But I just ran and ran and it wasn’t hard. Though allergies made breathing difficult.
Running an hour later in the day was crap, though – the sun was hotter and made it less pleasant, even in the cooler morning.
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B210k: wk1, run3

distance: 6.53 km, time: 00:53 08:06, calories: 688, effort: 5/5
The running is still hard, but not as hard as Wednesday. Had seriously tight calves/hamms though, so I had to spend my first two 1min walking intervals stretching. Dunno if I’ll be able to hack the jump to week 2’s longer intervals. We’ll see.
The stupid B210k app is SCREWED and restarted my third run again. So I ended up running further than planned (by about 5minutes) in that section again.

c25k: wk9, run3

distance: 4.51 km, time: 00:40, pace: 08:52, calories: 519, effort: 4/5
The streets were really empty and it was strange running without an audience.
I feel really good, and I even managed to pick up my speed a bit in the last few minutes to get back to my starting place. Now I need to work on getting my time down – I do just under 1k walking to cool up and down, so I really need to get my running speed up to get to 5k in 30minutes.
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