Hours of work down the pan thanks to Works Not Working.
Meanwhile, back at the blog. It is a year since I began running on 19th August 2010.
Thought I ought to commemorate it in some way. Discovered on Runners Forum a new initiative . A monthly 1 mile time trial.
Appropriate n’est pas?
Using my traditional ruler-on-the-map method I found an exact mile between the outer ends of two bridges on my “Bridge2far” route. Benefits of this are:-
- Easy to identify marker points
- Can be used in either direction
- Familiar territory
- More or less level - no visible gradient
- Proper warm-up of about 2 miles beforehand.
My time - 7min 26.82sec. Or 0:07:27. Not in Seb Coe territory but OK by me. A mile is a long way when you are steaming along flat out.
Now I have to improve on it next month!
The object of this time-trial is to compete with oneself - not with others. Inevitably one makes comparisons.
An arithmetic average of all the times announced is 7min 12sec. There are 13 faster than me and 10 slower. There is a difference of 4 min 39sec between fastest and slowest times. None of the times are faster than 5min or slower than 10. So on a track over 2 miles the fastest would not be able to lap the slowest.
This puts me into the upper part of the third quartile. Happy with that.
I know my place.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. St Matthew Ch 5 v 41
Steaming Along
Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
Thou shalt not kill; but need’s not strive
Officiously to keep alive
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,
When it’s so lucrative to cheat
Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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