My plan had been to run the ten miles from Woodingdean to the old Shoreham power-station this morning. And then to run back again. But the forecast was for extreme inclemence, consisting of North-Easterly gales and heavy rain… and for once the forecast turned out to be right. The thought of running the second ten miles into driving rain was not exactly appealing so I decided to stay home and listen to Martin Archer on Kiss FM, with his 3-hour Jump Start Sunday programme.
Of course this left me with a slight quandary: what to do while I listened. I’m not exactly one for sitting down & listening to the radio whilst doing nothing and it’s difficult to play guitar or to read a book, so I decided to have a gentle run on the machine.
Beyond this, there’s not a lot to report about today… except that I ran for all-bar one minute 36 seconds of the programme and covered 20 miles.
After a three or four mile warm-up, my heart rate stayed around 155 before passing 160 around the 14 mile mark and slowly creeping up to 165 by the end. The machine reckons that I used 2659 calories. I’m not quite sure exactly what to eat to replace these… I don’t think the shops sell anything with this many calories any more. I had to demount at the half way point as the machine only counts to 99 minutes, but despite my bladder faking that it required attention, I ignored it and only walked to open the door before getting back with the programme.
Two curious things: Firstly, I set the machine to 6.7mph for the whole duration, but the time shows that I managed to average 6.726mph… I don’t have enough calories left for my brain to work that one out. Second, somewhere in the combination of man-made-material running kit and a lot of movement, I always manage to create a little static… I was doubly shocked then, when I managed to earth out via the leaf of the plant that hangs expectantly over the machine!
Alas, I have no landscape photos to share with you… this was all I could see!
