I don't function in the morning anyway, never mind exercising :s
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I don't function in the morning anyway, never mind exercising :s
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Originally Posted by airshifter
I run to music, but stay well to the right of the sidewalk or path. I also expect cyclists to be equipped with a bell, as our city bylaws require.
I never cycle to music, though, and my bike is equipped with a bell. And I expect runners to stay well to the right :p : .
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Originally Posted by J4MIE
I'm up at 5:30 anyways, just to get to work :s . There's no way I'm getting up any earlier to squeeze in a morning routine.
I usually endure the heat and do my runs after work, although on weekends I try for a reasonably early morning.
Set a personal best the other day, running 8kms in under 40 minutes, although that was in good weather on reasably flat terrain.
Sturggled with 9.2kms yesterday in 47:26 in heavy winds :s
If I'm doing a ride in the morning I set the alarm for 6am and I'm out by 6.30am. If I'm not riding then the alarm is 6.30am but take longer to get up.
A nearby rider on my Strava feed goes out 5.30am or earlier every morning. Not commuting just a ride. Now that's commitment.
Same here but it's still tough sometimes. I do my best to keep one side of the walk, usually right, so everyone else can easily avoid me but sometimes I meet some other guy riding a bike keeping the same side (his left of course) and expecting me to run around him. The funniest (not really actually) is that there's this place where half the sidewalk is supposed to be for pedestrians and the other for bikes.... but somehow almost nobody respects these signs. You have the classical group of morons who block the whole sidewalk and then the other classical moron going on the wrong side (actually most of them are on the wrong side) that usually expects me to go around him so actually I have to switch to the bicycle side.. and with plenty of luck I'll meet on that side the one man that follows the sign.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
Luckily I do most of my running now somewhere I don't have to deal with bikes and too many other people.
And spoiled people like me think that getting up at 6:40 is tough. Like Bart Simpson said it, I didn't evem know there was a 5 o'clock in the morning too :laugh: .. or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
That's good pace... under 5 minutes per km.
I set my personal best this weekend too... but in terms of longest run. I managed to do 24k in just under 2h and 10 minutes... but time is irrelevant for me for these kind of runs as long as it doesn't take me too long to do them. I used to be kind of too optimistic about these long runs lately. For a while my long run was 18k every Saturday or Sunday... and every time I was under the impression I could have run more. In my super optimistic mind I thought 30k was within my reach... but then I tried a semi-marathon and boy it was tough. I could barely finish it. Of course, some days it's tougher than others
This latest long run was done on an almost empty stomach. After only 5k I start feeling like there was some sort of vacuum in my stomach. It's interesting how important, psychologically, the halfway point is. I had my doubts I could do the whole 24k, especially when I felt my belly was trying to suck me in from within... but once I got to 12k I felt like I was on the summit of a mountain and it was all downhill from there :D . Anyways when I finished I was finished myself. My mouth was so dry I could barely swallow, my throat and feet sore... and there was a Charley horse ready to bite at every step :laugh: ... yet I still don't have a final answer for the question. Why do I do it?
First bike commute in two weeks today and back feels pretty ok. If I can get up from bed tomorrow I can go mountainbiking on sunday. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by janneppi
Seems a few of us have been doing some events this weekend. Third Sunday in a row doing a cycle ride event for me. This one at 58 miles with all hills was the hardest. Still feeling it now!
Here's me hard at work, putting in maximum effort
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3694/9...2df19bb6_z.jpg
Cor Mark, watch and not pull a muscle doing that :s
Despite a few reservations after the previous disastrous weekend, yesterday I went up to Kielder forest for another mountain bike orienteering event. Despite going for rallies several times a year for the past decade I didn't end up in any bits I recognised :s I (as usually) didn't get a massive points haul but someone in my class finished 45 minutes late so got all his points taken off him, so I wasn't last! Still having lots of trouble with hills and keeping a decent pace up, got beaten by a woman in the 60+ category :s