A run with Steve
It was a great day for a run today. Conditions were almost perfect. I did a long run through suburbia to my old house and back. My wife and I moved in with our inlaws after our daughter was born last year so it was good to see the old place. I realised afterwards that I managed to run past every house I’ve lived in while I’ve been in NZ today. It wasn’t on purpose but it was interesting. It was only after I got home that I remembered that I’d been carrying my camera in my waist pack the whole time and hadn’t taken any photos!
It was a really good run in the sense that I enjoyed it tremendously. However, it was quite a slow run too. For some reason I just had no pace today but I decided fairly early on that that didn’t matter. I was out for a long run not a fast run so I just put it out of my mind and kept going. I did 23.46 km in 2:23:44 for an overall pace of 6:08/km. I’m afraid the map is a bit boring this week as my link to Google Earth wasn’t working.
I had Pheddipations by Steve Runner on my ipod and during the podcast I heard something that really surprised me. Guess who was the Featured blog of the week – Andrew is getting fit.com! I feel quite honoured that a runner like Steve would find my journey worthy of a mention.
I hit some major milestones in my run today. Firstly, it was my longest run yet (by a whopping .4 km) and secondly, it takes me to over 500 miles (800ish km) for the year. I reckon that is quite an achievement even if I say so myself.
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That is quite an achievement
…congrats. I’m sure you’ll get to see your blog in many other places.
Usman
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That definitely qualifies as a long run all right! Well done.
Do you carry water with you? I found today I was getting a bit dehydrated…
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Nothing wrong with a slow pace on a nice long run like that!
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KUDOS ON BEING FEATURED!!
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Hey, you’re a celebrity now!
What a nice surprise during a great run…very cool.
As always…I am humbled by your 2+ hour runs. Very nice!
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Nice run, Andrew. Makes sense that your longer runs will be at a slower pace than shorter ones.
500 miles — fantastic! That’s really great.
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All kinds of good news over here! Congrats on all of it–featured blogger, longest distance and the 500 miles!
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The accomplishments keep rolling in. No pictures, c’mon man!!
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congrats! You’re famous
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Wow that really is awesome Andrew. And quite a cool side note that you passed the places in which you had lived!
I am not familiar with that podcast – I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip!
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Awesome achievement! I’m sure you’ll be shooting for 1,000 next year!
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I was a little envy when I have read that 6′/km is a slow in Your opinion
This is my best time on my 6 times shorter route
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But, hey, its my first month with daily running
Congrats on the great run mate!
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Aah…I still have that too when I read the blogs of more experienced runners.
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That is so cool!
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