Tag: running
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Running Upwards Along a River in Morges at Dawn
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome people were watching the football last night. Others were working towards qualifying enough hearing loss at a music festival to get hearing aids. I decided that on Friday morning I would wake around 04:30 to run in Morges at 06:00. Many would see waking so early as a crazy and…
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On Heatwaves and Getting Up at Dawn to Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are entering the first Canicule of the summer today from Thursday and towards the 23rd of June. During this heat wave Minergie buildings, will climb towards 32°c plus, as will apartments. Cities will gather more and more heat energy and radiate it it. That’s when noisy music festivals can have deadly…
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Three Thousand Eight Hundred Meters of Climbing Later
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Monday, and last week I climbed 2000m to Marchairuz on Monday, and then 465m to Romainmôtier on Thursday and then another 1300m on Sunday. The total is thus 3800m of climbing in a single week. The goal, for a month is 8000m so in two weeks, at this pace, I would…
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Décathlon as Social Network
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery few weeks I notice that Décathlon organise a run in Geneva, or Chavannes, or other places. Today I went for a five kilometre with this group and it made me think of Décathlon as a social network, rather than just a shop. What I mean by this is that we often…
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The Saturday 8AM Run in Nyon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are two runs on a Saturday morning in Nyon. One of these is at 8am and the other is at 9am. The 8am run is aimed as a relaxed, conversational run. The pace, according to my own track was about 06:20 per kilometre. The elegance of such a run, if you…
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The Morges 6AM Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow many people would deliberately wake at 04:30 to run at 06:00 in a town 20 minutes away by car, when there is a run the next day at 8am with one group, and 9am the next day with another group? Who would skip an evening ride the night before, for this?…
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The Weekend Menu
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor this weekend, for Saturday’s course I have two relaxed, rides from Geneva, one or two moderate rides, and one peak and maybe one or two other rides to choose from. On the Nyon menu I have an 8am potential run, followed by a 10am group ride that throws in a healthy…
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The Value of Sporty Redundancy
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years, and years, I loved to rock climb, explore via ferrata, hike and more but as soon as Autumn came and people went indoors the social calendar dried up until the next spring. With cycling, to a large degree you have the same issue. As soon as the nights shorten, or…
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The Cancelled Saturday Plan Rain
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning you might have noticed quite particular. Yesterday it was drizzling. This meant that we could go for a run, despite the rain, and end, still dry. This morning however a bike ride was cancelled, or maybe even several. The reason is that it was wetting rain, or “heavy rain” as…
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The Morning Run to Breakfast With Cyclists
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I dropped off my bike for a service. I noticed that the rear wheel no longer seemed to be true so I took it to a bike shop. They confirmed that some of the bike spokes were about to fail. Due to this technical issue I left my bike with…