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Thursday Nov 17, 2011 #
6 AM
Run 2:01:00 [3] 24.0 km (5:03 / km)
Stepped out the door to the first clear morning since I've been here. I wondered when I saw the stars whether I might have regretted not going back inside for some gloves, but -2 was warm enough to be able to cope without.
This time my long run was contained entirely within the borders of Switzerland, heading west and north-west with a section on riverside tracks around a loop of the Rhone. I hit this section after a increasingly good first 40 minutes, with just enough light to venture off road (even 5 minutes earlier would have been a problem). Slower through this section, which contained some rough tracks in marginal light (and some places where the fallen leaves made it hard to tell what was track and what wasn't), but still feeling good. It became more challenging after 70 minutes - starting to feel some back tightness again, especially on the uphills which there were a few of at that stage. Started to get a second wind in the last 15 minutes and finished off well. A pretty nice session. Sunday will be more of a test; will be aiming for 2.30 (and I get the impression that any worthwhile long run in Barcelona is going to involve some fairly serious hill-climbing).
A Swiss resident was in the news today with some rather dinosauresque comments on football and racism (I saw the interview, live, on CNN last night and thought 'did he really just say what I thought he said'). Football authorities have some form in failing to notice racism or similar - after all, they once sent a delegation which failed to find any evidence of sectarian songs being sung at a Rangers-Celtic match. It will, though be somewhat ironic if Blatter goes for this rather than for (at best) turning a blind eye to rampant corruption.
This time my long run was contained entirely within the borders of Switzerland, heading west and north-west with a section on riverside tracks around a loop of the Rhone. I hit this section after a increasingly good first 40 minutes, with just enough light to venture off road (even 5 minutes earlier would have been a problem). Slower through this section, which contained some rough tracks in marginal light (and some places where the fallen leaves made it hard to tell what was track and what wasn't), but still feeling good. It became more challenging after 70 minutes - starting to feel some back tightness again, especially on the uphills which there were a few of at that stage. Started to get a second wind in the last 15 minutes and finished off well. A pretty nice session. Sunday will be more of a test; will be aiming for 2.30 (and I get the impression that any worthwhile long run in Barcelona is going to involve some fairly serious hill-climbing).
A Swiss resident was in the news today with some rather dinosauresque comments on football and racism (I saw the interview, live, on CNN last night and thought 'did he really just say what I thought he said'). Football authorities have some form in failing to notice racism or similar - after all, they once sent a delegation which failed to find any evidence of sectarian songs being sung at a Rangers-Celtic match. It will, though be somewhat ironic if Blatter goes for this rather than for (at best) turning a blind eye to rampant corruption.