paulradcliffe.me archive
Category: General Running and/or Fitness
July 24, 2013
Run for the Second Beep
You’ll have to excuse me for being a little extra philosophical and metaphysical today. I think I’ve discovered the analogy of my season! Like many recreational runners, I use a “run-walk” system, similar to the McMillian system and the Running Room’s “10 and 1’s”. I recently figured out how to program my Garmin Forerunner 410 to beep the intervals automatically. I imagine the feature was intended for people doing intense intervals, not the laboured jog and walk that I do! Anyways, there’s a first set of beeps when the interval rest period comes up. When I was being a pacer,[…continue reading]
July 19, 2013
Running Comic by The Oatmeal!
I just had an emotional experience reading a webcomic. Almost every Friday, Mark Remy publishes “The List” on his blog at RunnersWorld.com with a set of topics that saavy runners will be talking about over the weekend. On this weeks list was a link to a webcomic by The Onion’s author Matthes Inman called “The Terrible & Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances.” The comic is beautiful, haunting, funny, brutally honest, and motivating. It’s six web pages that I am reading over and over again. There are a few moments that I really liked: I immediately related to[…continue reading]
July 16, 2013
…Or Bust?
In a post from about a month ago, I declared I was going to run Berlin Or Bust! After a tough month of reality checks, my goal of running the Berlin Marathon in September seems pretty far away. The worst part is I think I might be okay with that… If I was following my training schedule for Berlin, I would have needed to do 23km Sunday night. I didn’t run at all. I feel quite guilty about it, of course! But I also have a slight sense of relief. I’ve been so obsessed with schedules and miles for so[…continue reading]
