Archive for July, 2010
Pub Run : The Recce
The pub run I’m hosting on Wednesday is about 6.61miles and starts and finishes at The Lion & Lamb in Horsley. The run has spectacular views across the Whittle Dean reservoirs and across the Tyne valley to the south. The route starts at the L&L then up the track beside the kitchen design centre to cross the A69 before setting off across the fields almost due North to Harlow Hill. Leaving Harlow Hill on the Military road the route then skirts around the North side of the upper reservoir before coming back down the B6309 to cross the Military Road again going South. Once past the farm “Walton Hall” with it’s ruined Pele tower the route follows the culvert eventually crossing Whittle Burn at Spittle and then joining the road, Oatens Bank, back to Horsley directly, or for more interest back through the gorse forest and the track opposite the pub.
The Weekend Work
Its the weekend but my work is never done
The usual angst ensues, how to balance relaxation, a need to catch up on work and a desire to up the training while at the same time being completely knackered. I think I need a holiday.
I’ve also made a big investment in this WordPress thing and need to tidy this blog. The stylesheet needs some work, the heading sizes are too big and I may just change the colours to revive the ones I used when I was over on Blogger. Other changes on the roadmap:-
- Relative heading sizes
- Heading colours
- Event calendar using Google calendar as a feed : still needs work
- Embedding Google maps, I don’t like the Garmin stuff too much
- Contact form
- Home page / pages / posts / tags / categories
- Category pages,
- gear & technology
- map and mapping
- Blog and link icons too big
- Tag field
The Costal Run
Done
Well it was as hard as I suspected but I got there in the end (if not at the end) and I think I may have just scraped in under the 2:30 mark but only just. The final 2 miles along the beach in a head wind was really hard but managed a sprint. I guess I was a bit ambitious trying that distance on just a couple of days training a week and none of that over 9 miles. I need to up my game a bit.
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside beside the sea!
It’s the Coastal Run this Sunday, Alnwick Harriers annual trip to the seaside, buckets and spades optional.
14 miles along the Northumberland coastline between Beadnall and Alnmouth.
Tynedale 10k
Well I have to admit I was rubbish, slower than last year and felt awful. Started too fast didn’t run the plan I had in my head and bitterly disappointed. I beat last year’s time by just 34sec.
I’d better shape up and put some miles in before the 18th, Coastal Run, Beadnell to Alnmouth. That’s supposed to be a great day out but after tonight I’m a little apprehensive.
The last 100yds
© J.Potts
Tynedale 10K
Pie and Peas Road Race
Tonight’s the night, wild and windy …. hopefully the wind’s behind us all the way.
The start’s at 7:30 in Ovington.
The finish will be in Low Prudhoe (by the station) sometime later.
BPPV
Whoa! The world is Spinning let me get off!
I have BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO, my advice don’t get this. It’s a condition of the inner ear and affects your balance or rather perception of balance by overloading your semi circular canals, it’s like getting off a roundabout when you were three and the world appeared to be spinning around. It may have been fun then but at my age its nauseating and I keep falling over as if I was drunk, without any of the positive effects.
The good news is that it’s treatable, the bad news is the treatment makes it worse while the treatment is being carried out.
I’ve already cancelled running for this weekend I just hope that I’m better by Wednesday as it’s the Tynedale Pie and Peas 10k!
T5
T5 from the “Viewing Gallery” of the Thistle Hotel Heathrow.
Dolphin Hotel
Galactic Teabag
Growing Old Disgracefully
Garmin
NFR
