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Month: October 2014

  • 80/20 Day Four

    It hasn’t even been a week since I was last at 7Cycle, but it feels like an eternity after all the running I’ve been putting in. I was still pretty tired after last night’s track session (my Garmin told me I needed about 48 hours of recovery) and when I got home last night, it […]

  • 80/20: Day Three

    You only do three things to be good at a sport: train really diligently, eat really well and sleep lots. Consistently. For a very long time. Oh, and a good genetic inheritance, financial independence and some good luck probably help, but concentrate on the things you can change first. Last night, La Serpiente Aquatica Negra […]

  • 80/20 Day Two

    This morning, I got up at six again and went out for a run. A Foundation Run 5, to be precise.

  • Slow start

    Today was the first day of my new running regimen. I got out of bed (well, off the sofa) at 6am, checked my heart rate (45 bpm) and then got dressed and went out for a run. A ponderous, slow run, my legs heavy from last night’s effort. Even if I’d wanted to go faster, […]

  • 80/20 Running

    Yesterday I bought 80/20 Running, Matt Fitzgerald’s latest book of training advice for long distance runners. The basic idea is quite simple: you run eighty percent of the time at easy pace and twenty percent at a hard pace. Of course, that’s not going to be enough to fill the pages of a book, and […]

  • Spun out again and taxis

    This morning I went to a spinning class, for the first time in almost two weeks. I was worried I’d spend the whole 45 minutes hawking up phlegm, butvi survived without any disgusting moments. I also managed to surpass my previous best maximum wattage (over 600 watts for the first time, if we can believe […]

  • Gone Girl

    Tonight, after weeks of avoiding inadvertent plot revelations, I finally got to the cinema to see Gone Girl, the latest David Fincher film. We hired a babysitter, we went out for the night together, to a film that could hardly be described as a date movie.

  • Second wife

    For lunch today, our friend Mel accompanied me from the office to visit my wife and La Serpiente Aquatica Negra. On the way there, we stopped to buy salad in the hawker centre. The man running the salad stall asked if I was Mel’s husband. We took the salad to my apartment, where La Serpiente […]

  • Damp day off

    Today was a holiday in Singapore, but since both La Serpiente Aquatica Negra and I have clogged up noses, we didn’t do anything especially exciting. In the morning we had some mediocre coffee and then walked around in the drizzle.

  • More Spanish practices

    I had a Spanish lesson today, so I packed extra tofurkey sandwiches to eat on the way from office to class, and then, quite predictably, ate them all by four in the afternoon because I was hungry. Leaving the office today, bamboozled and tired from my ever-dripping nose, I took a train to Bugis rather […]