Distance:
2.89miles Distance: 1:81miles Distance: 2:80miles
Time:
51:35 min Time: 50:27min Time: 37:50min
Avg Speed: 3:28mph Avg
Speed 2:16mph Avg Speed: 4:45 kmph
Avg
pace: 18.27min/mile Avg Pace 27:49 Avg Pace: 13.29 min/mile
Calories
Burned: 416 Calories burned
280 Calories Burned: 507
Walking Walking Run
Good
afternoon blogworld. Well as I said in my previous blog I have been
volunteering this week at the Chinese athletics team pre-Olympic training camp.
I have a fancy t-shirt to prove it! The camp itself has been very low key with
the athletes arriving about 8.30am each morning then breaking at about 11am
returning at 3pm until 6pm. I have to say it has been nothing like how I
imagined it would be. I thought it would be intense with lots of grunting and
shouting by coaches. I always envisaged that an athlete’s training (from any
country not just China) 2 days before the Olympics began would be very rigorous
and pressured. Yet it is nothing like that. There is a lot of stretching,
weight training and running through rehearsed and practiced performance
routines almost in slow motion to build the muscle memory. The athletes are
ready and honed. I suppose they are storing up for the event not wanting to do
anything that would incur a strain or injury. They simply go about their
routines in a calm and measured manner. We volunteers got quite excited when
one boy got the hurdles out, they could have asked us to do that but these
people are not prima donnas or divas they just simply and quietly sort
themselves, he then walked up and down and stretched for at least another half
hour before he took a run at just one hurdle, he later jumped two! Such
excitement!
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| Naixi gardening for China |
As the camp is about 1.2miles from my home I decided to use my journey there as part of my training and rather than get the bus or take the car I walked it and clocked the time and distance on my tracker. Then today I went in my running gear- would have worn my gardening gear if I’d known ahead about the pole vault ‘garden’- and came home the longer way around in order for me to record a mid-week run. It was just a short one of 2.8miles but the route I took, down through Meanwood park and back up to Headingley is a hilly one and not best done on tired legs. Although hard and not one of my better runs there were moments of personal challenge that I met and passed, so emotionally that is good.
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seeing just where in the world my simple ramblings are being read is very
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second most frequent visitor to my blog. However I have noted readers in China,
Canada, New Zealand all over Europe both east and west, Singapore, Korea,
Indonesia and Russia. The only continent I have not had a reader from is
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