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[…]
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Month: October 2014
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[…]
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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.
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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