A run with Steve

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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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16 Responses to “A run with Steve”

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Nothing wrong with a slow pace on a nice long run like that!

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  4. KUDOS ON BEING FEATURED!!

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  5. 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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  6. Nice run, Andrew. Makes sense that your longer runs will be at a slower pace than shorter ones.

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  7. 500 miles — fantastic! That’s really great.

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  8. All kinds of good news over here! Congrats on all of it–featured blogger, longest distance and the 500 miles!

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  9. The accomplishments keep rolling in. No pictures, c’mon man!!

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  10. congrats! You’re famous ;)
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  11. 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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  12. Awesome achievement! I’m sure you’ll be shooting for 1,000 next year!

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  13. 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 ;))

    But, hey, its my first month with daily running ;)

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    AndrewENo Gravatar reply on September 17th, 2008 6:51 am:

    Aah…I still have that too when I read the blogs of more experienced runners. :)

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  14. Congrats on the great run mate!

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  15. That is so cool!

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