I went to the track tonight to run another interval session; this time five lots of 1200m, with each repeat done in 7 minutes. The slower you are, the more punishing this becomes because you[…]
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Month: October 2016
Running without much power
This morning I was meant to go for a run with a friend at 7, but his alarm didn’t go off and so I waited on my sofa until almost 8 for him to turn[…]
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A long fast day out
This morning I ran the parkrun thirty seconds faster than last week. I’d worried after all that long, slow running that all I’d be able to do was more slow running, but I kept a[…]
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At the National Gallery again
It’s Deepavali in Singapore this weekend, and that means a day off. With my previous employers, we’d always get the following Monday off, but now we get the preceding Friday off instead. That meant I[…]
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A slow run up a hill
I wore my compression tights while I slept last night, and I got a decent seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, but I still woke up exhausted. It turns out you can’t always defy the strains[…]
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Oculus Rift playtime
I sneaked into our Oculus Rift demo room today to see what all the fuss was about. I’d heard lots of negatives about Oculus as a VR platform; the resolution is not high enough, the[…]
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The outdoor indoor track
This evening I ran from the office to the National Stadium, a not particularly pleasant mile and a half along the side of a highway in constant drizzle. The rain would make the track slippery,[…]
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A series of bad decisions
This afternoon I strapped La Serpiente into the running stroller and took her outside into mild drizzle, for a run around the Marina Bay. After the last run with my daughter, where I didn’t take[…]
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Left in the lurch
Idiotically, I had planned to run 10km to the start of the park run this morning, but I woke at six feeling dreadful and went back to sleep. I somehow managed to get to the[…]
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Dressing up
Today was United Nations Day, so all the children at school were meant to dress up in their national dress. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a Royal Canadian Mounted Police outfit for her to wear, and[…]
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