Give it a like if you like it - but make sure you view it full screen or you won't be able to see:
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I've finally finished Walden - and the conclusions brought me round somewhat. The opening chapters and the conclusion are by far the best bits, as he talks about seeing past the trappings of modern existence (made all the more pertinent by the fact that he's talking to the reader from the 19th century). The middle of the book is all about his experiences around the lake during his time spent living there. Lots of detailed accounts of the animals he'd seen, the people he met, the thickness of the ice during winter - good in theory, but a little bit too dry in reality. He comes across as a little smug at times, when he talks about the methods and needs of other men, as compared to his own skills - but as it's an insight into his way of thinking, you can forgive him for sharing.
What he also does is to turn each chunk of observation into some sort of wider view (and I thought to myself "this is like life"). He sees a bug on the forest floor, attempting to hide itself from the human, not knowing whether the human could itself be its benefactor - and then he ponders whether he is the insect, and the creator of the universe is his benefactor. He's quite big on "creation", but at the same time, he talks about universal rules like a scientist or engineer. I've been a big fan of self-similarity ever since my nutty and effervescent chaos lecturer at university gave us the talk about broccoli heads and florets being essentially the same thing - one rule, repeated, with little differences, to make a complex object.
You could probably capture the essence of Walden in a much shorter essay, but to do so might miss some of the connection he feels with his environment. You can certainly see some of the inspiration that Pirsig took from Walden when writing "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". In particular, this excerpt rang loud:
"It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, amid the mountains."
And finally: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
What he also does is to turn each chunk of observation into some sort of wider view (and I thought to myself "this is like life"). He sees a bug on the forest floor, attempting to hide itself from the human, not knowing whether the human could itself be its benefactor - and then he ponders whether he is the insect, and the creator of the universe is his benefactor. He's quite big on "creation", but at the same time, he talks about universal rules like a scientist or engineer. I've been a big fan of self-similarity ever since my nutty and effervescent chaos lecturer at university gave us the talk about broccoli heads and florets being essentially the same thing - one rule, repeated, with little differences, to make a complex object.
You could probably capture the essence of Walden in a much shorter essay, but to do so might miss some of the connection he feels with his environment. You can certainly see some of the inspiration that Pirsig took from Walden when writing "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". In particular, this excerpt rang loud:
"It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, amid the mountains."
And finally: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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You rang, mi'lord?Fizz :-)
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Fetch me a bag of crisps Waldenfetcheveryone9:12am, 30th Jun 2014
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Did Thoreau invent/predict the concept of fractals then? Never read Walden but I might get a copy for the holidays...Dooogs9:26am, 30th Jun 2014
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I don't think you could infer that from his text, but it appealed to me.fetcheveryone9:29am, 30th Jun 2014
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I think I got about halfway through before grinding to a halt, the man could do with a bloody good edit, tbh! My favourite quote is 'I like a wide margin to my life'.fleecy9:33am, 30th Jun 2014
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I admit to skim-reading quite a bit of the more in-depth descriptions of wood textures etc.fetcheveryone9:52am, 30th Jun 2014
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I went there with some colleagues when over in Boston for a meeting. Absolutely stunning place.sallykate12:14pm, 30th Jun 2014
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Fizz :-)
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I wanted cheese and onionfetcheveryone8:29pm, 30th Jun 2014
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I'm pleased you liked Thoreau, at least in parts. I am a Pirsig fan too. The Thoreau quote (not from Walden) that everybody knows, is his best... “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”jacdaw10:40pm, 2nd Jul 2014
Very exhausted tonight, but as a result of a lovely day.
My metronomic boy woke at 7, and we crept downstairs for a quick game of FIFA so we wouldn't wake Katie and Littley. We had croissants and weetabix, and set off for the Alton Towers swimming pool at 9.
If you've never been, I thoroughly recommend it - it's £48 for a family of 4, but there's enough entertainment that two small boys were kept smiling for five solid hours, interrupted only by some foot long hot dogs at lunchtime, and some every-flavour slush.
It's amazing how much moving about you do at a place like that - and as a result, I feel like I've run a hard half marathon this evening. Some lovely memories, mainly seeing our two boys having some good times together, as the age difference percentage decreases a little. That and seeing Katie bouncing like a giggly imp and rushing straight back into the queue for another go on the water slide
My metronomic boy woke at 7, and we crept downstairs for a quick game of FIFA so we wouldn't wake Katie and Littley. We had croissants and weetabix, and set off for the Alton Towers swimming pool at 9.
If you've never been, I thoroughly recommend it - it's £48 for a family of 4, but there's enough entertainment that two small boys were kept smiling for five solid hours, interrupted only by some foot long hot dogs at lunchtime, and some every-flavour slush.
It's amazing how much moving about you do at a place like that - and as a result, I feel like I've run a hard half marathon this evening. Some lovely memories, mainly seeing our two boys having some good times together, as the age difference percentage decreases a little. That and seeing Katie bouncing like a giggly imp and rushing straight back into the queue for another go on the water slide
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A quick blog tonight.
Last night I discovered the joys of iMovie, so you can bet that my next YouTube tutorial will be a spectacular to rival George Lucas at his finest It really is lots of fun to play with, and can trim down the most hesitant and meandering monologue into a less hesitant meandering monologue. There are transition effects, and sound effects, and it's incredibly easy to pick up the basics. Having recently watched Super 8, I can see we're not far from our first blockbuster either.
The boy did good at rugby, winning a round at bulldog, and tagging well. No tries this week, but he proceeded to wear his kit all day.
Our lovely visitors arrived at 1pm, and we enjoyed a nice couple of hours at Bramcote park, throwing a rugby ball for the boys, tennis balls for the dog, and exploring the deepest darkest bits of the woods. When I was young (can't remember how old), my grandma told me we were lost, as we all trooped through the woods on a family walk. There's something about forests that can bend reality.
A bolognese (my best creation in many a month), and then a movie (Holes), before nearly executing the dog with a spring-loaded camp bed foot that whizzed past his head and clattered into the wall. Fortunately he was too tired to be as freaked out as the incident deserved. I had a lucky escape too, as I was kneeling right over it - how it missed my hollyhocks I shall never know - I felt like Jules from Pulp Fiction.
Night.
Last night I discovered the joys of iMovie, so you can bet that my next YouTube tutorial will be a spectacular to rival George Lucas at his finest
It really is lots of fun to play with, and can trim down the most hesitant and meandering monologue into a less hesitant meandering monologue. There are transition effects, and sound effects, and it's incredibly easy to pick up the basics. Having recently watched Super 8, I can see we're not far from our first blockbuster either. The boy did good at rugby, winning a round at bulldog, and tagging well. No tries this week, but he proceeded to wear his kit all day.
Our lovely visitors arrived at 1pm, and we enjoyed a nice couple of hours at Bramcote park, throwing a rugby ball for the boys, tennis balls for the dog, and exploring the deepest darkest bits of the woods. When I was young (can't remember how old), my grandma told me we were lost, as we all trooped through the woods on a family walk. There's something about forests that can bend reality.
A bolognese (my best creation in many a month), and then a movie (Holes), before nearly executing the dog with a spring-loaded camp bed foot that whizzed past his head and clattered into the wall. Fortunately he was too tired to be as freaked out as the incident deserved. I had a lucky escape too, as I was kneeling right over it - how it missed my hollyhocks I shall never know - I felt like Jules from Pulp Fiction.
Night.
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With apologies to any readers of a sensitive nature, because there's no more suitable word for it, today I twatted my elbow on something, and it's been sore ever since.
The anniversary kit sounds like a goer then
Today's run was good - a nice five mile loop before collecting the boy from school. I haven't uploaded it yet, because I'm going to try making a little video to illustrate how checkpoints work. The 'Race Guide' video from a couple of days ago seems to have gone down like the proverbial fart in church - but I guess it's hardly revolutionary. I also realised it was a pretty soporific 7.5 minutes. I'll try to keep the checkpoints video shorter My admiration for Stampy and his alleged £50k a month increases (but still not enough to offset "exscape").
Yeah the run - it was good. The first three miles were all around 8:30 pace, and then the last two were around 8:15 - and although it felt like it was up a gear or two from when we're at long run pace, it felt like it was a few gears below race pace. It's one of the reasons why I like having heart rate data - it means you can see progress without having to go for a run at top speed. In theory, judging by the way it felt, I reckon my average heart rate for this run will be a bit lower than a few months back.
Looking forward to what promises to be a fun weekend
The anniversary kit sounds like a goer then
Today's run was good - a nice five mile loop before collecting the boy from school. I haven't uploaded it yet, because I'm going to try making a little video to illustrate how checkpoints work. The 'Race Guide' video from a couple of days ago seems to have gone down like the proverbial fart in church - but I guess it's hardly revolutionary. I also realised it was a pretty soporific 7.5 minutes. I'll try to keep the checkpoints video shorter
My admiration for Stampy and his alleged £50k a month increases (but still not enough to offset "exscape"). Yeah the run - it was good. The first three miles were all around 8:30 pace, and then the last two were around 8:15 - and although it felt like it was up a gear or two from when we're at long run pace, it felt like it was a few gears below race pace. It's one of the reasons why I like having heart rate data - it means you can see progress without having to go for a run at top speed. In theory, judging by the way it felt, I reckon my average heart rate for this run will be a bit lower than a few months back.
Looking forward to what promises to be a fun weekend
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Short-sleeved bike shirts. You know it makes sense.Angus Clydesdale
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Have a brilliant weekend.Elsie Too6:49am, 28th Jun 2014
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While I hate to agree with AnCly - I second the call for bike shirts in wearable sizesJubear
Um.. and I hope the elbow feels better soon. Have a lovely weekend. (Is any of this helping the cause? )7:01am, 28th Jun 2014 -
Get well soon, fetcheveryelbone.Grid7:35am, 28th Jun 2014
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Ouchnorthernslowcoach
Happy weekend7:23pm, 28th Jun 2014
I've been planning some special anniversary Fetch kit, to mark the 10th anniversary of the site, which is officially September 2014 (being 10 years since my first ever race, the Cardiff 10k).
It'll be shirts and vests, and (sorry to all those who prefer subtle), it's likely to be an explosion of red, yellow and white, with a big ostentatious Fetch logo on it
It would be great to get an idea of numbers for this - and I'm planning on sending out a mass email to get some more accurate numbers - but in general, are you up for it?
I expect they'll be somewhere around the £20-25 mark, depending on just how jazzy the design is, and the plan is to make sure they are adorning your sweaty bodies in time for some 10th anniversary ostentatious-ism.
Are you up for a bit of ostentatious-ism? Do you has?
It'll be shirts and vests, and (sorry to all those who prefer subtle), it's likely to be an explosion of red, yellow and white, with a big ostentatious Fetch logo on it
It would be great to get an idea of numbers for this - and I'm planning on sending out a mass email to get some more accurate numbers - but in general, are you up for it?
I expect they'll be somewhere around the £20-25 mark, depending on just how jazzy the design is, and the plan is to make sure they are adorning your sweaty bodies in time for some 10th anniversary ostentatious-ism.
Are you up for a bit of ostentatious-ism? Do you has?
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oh yes pleaseminardi3:02pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes. I am Up for it.Ocelot Spleens3:03pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I've only been a member for nine years - but I'd like vest please.Lalli3:05pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes, definitely up for it. And VP doesn't have a lot of kit so I'll get him some too.Velociraptor
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Yes. I bumped my old thread yesterday as I was getting desperate for a new fetch top (one dumped during London and one is shrinking more and more!)HermanBloom3:06pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Why not.Joopsy3:14pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me MeBattlecat3:16pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please!Weasie3:18pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I'll have onejohnsy3:18pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please, thank youTheScribbler And if they're ready in time I'll wear mine on the Great North Run ( 7 Sept)3:19pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh go on then.Longwayround [LWR]3:19pm, 26th Jun 2014
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yes, Yes, YES!sallykate3:19pm, 26th Jun 2014
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yesArgie3:20pm, 26th Jun 2014
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sounds good to me!not built for speed3:21pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh yes.GlennR3:28pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I has!Angus Clydesdale3:30pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Would much prefer the black, white & yellow one but if it's gotta be red then red it is!DoricQuine3:30pm, 26th Jun 2014
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yes pleaseGeologyRocks3:35pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yah, count me inZehnderboy3:38pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please!D23:40pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Count me in - can never have too many Fetch shirts:-)Girlie3:43pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please!johntz3:45pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes if it doesn't clash with my eyes......runnerbean3:45pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please, sounds like it will match my eyeskwala3:47pm, 26th Jun 2014
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could well be!emdee3:47pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Always up for colour clashing explosionsAutumnleaves3:48pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Me tooleaguefreak3:49pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseWooters4:01pm, 26th Jun 2014
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As I don't yet have a fetch shirt I could well be temptedBaronessBL4:04pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseSooWoo4:09pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Sounds good, yes please.Bluebell23254:14pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I'm always up for it!Hippity4:15pm, 26th Jun 2014
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YES! I'll take the lot.LindsD4:26pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Shirt please.RunningRonnie4:45pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes. Oh yes.Drell4:47pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseMaking_Tracks4:50pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh yes!SarahWoo5:04pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh yes! Send some my way please!Scud5:06pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseFreshStart5:23pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes.quimby5:25pm, 26th Jun 2014
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new kit \o/ old kit getting a tad tight round the middle.....kstuart5:27pm, 26th Jun 2014
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You bet!LazyDaisy5:34pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Me me me!Metro_Nome5:35pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Well up for it. I don't like blending into the background!Corrah6:00pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please.Ness6:01pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes!Jubear6:01pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseElsie Too6:15pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Me pleasenorthernslowcoach6:16pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please - I don't think I'd be able to resist.Keefley6:39pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh yes please! Definitely would get one of those! What a great idea!Stumpy6:42pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Oh yes - that'll be my first piece of Fetch kit.Nelski6:42pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes!Rach452 (brandstifterin)6:44pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes! My original 8 (or is it 9 now?) year old vest has holes in it!KinkyS6:56pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes ignore the answer immediately above. Miscreant husband let loose on keyboard. But yes definitely up for a vest.SherryB7:06pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Sounds a great ideaDebbie G7:07pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Count me inMisterTea7:12pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please.Moley737:27pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please!Winniefree7:35pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please i have no fetch kit yet!.B.7:49pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I think I could be persuaded!Lemon108:08pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Would be rude not toSeratonin8:33pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes 👍J*C8:34pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Hell yeah!Gritts!8:48pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I think I could be persuaded to buy thatSpally8:48pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes please.Calamity8:50pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Looks like I'm the only one interested then....;-)GimmeMedals9:01pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Vest please!Roobarb9:23pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Vest or Tee or both please.....:-)RFJ9:27pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes pease.Watford Wobble9:37pm, 26th Jun 2014
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YepBintmcskint9:38pm, 26th Jun 2014
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defo.Craig_9:51pm, 26th Jun 2014
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*jumps on bandwagon*fleecy
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Tea please.... Oh sorry wrong blogSquares
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Ooh yesDuchess10:06pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Gwan thenoldbiddy xx10:09pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yessirree!McNewbie10:20pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yep, I'm good for that-x-x-10:22pm, 26th Jun 2014
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A must-have!CStar10:33pm, 26th Jun 2014
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YesLady Sol10:40pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Is it here yet? What do you mean, no?!? Wore my fetch vest only on Tuesday at a local race - I still looks like I does in the fetch shopsLickster http://www.fetcheveryone.com/shop.php10:41pm, 26th Jun 2014
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I'm in.I'd sell my firstborn's left kidney for a Fetch 10th Anniversary vest!Nellers10:48pm, 26th Jun 2014
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A defninte maybe from me.Helegant11:05pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Definitely!!!geordiegirl11:22pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Definitely!Siouxsie11:24pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Ooh, not half!Molesy11:26pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Yes yesrunningmumof3boys11:44pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Short sleeved bike shirts? Just a thought...........Angus Clydesdale11:45pm, 26th Jun 2014
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Count me in.Sombrero12:28am, 27th Jun 2014
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Great idea, yes please.RuthB25:21am, 27th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseMadWelshWoman6:05am, 27th Jun 2014
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Oooooo, yes please!!!UltraMrsR7:20am, 27th Jun 2014
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Might help me get my running mojo back! Yes please!Farby7:52am, 27th Jun 2014
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YepShadow8:30am, 27th Jun 2014
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Yes, please add me to the huge long list above!martynjlane9:21am, 27th Jun 2014
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count me in - a bit of post GNR wearOld Croc9:41am, 27th Jun 2014
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ya!Arjin9:45am, 27th Jun 2014
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Yes please but I was rather hoping to not have redNutso Lazytoad!9:59am, 27th Jun 2014
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It should be so violently coloured that most people won't be able to discern actual individual colours anyway.fetcheveryone10:01am, 27th Jun 2014
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Can it say - 'I remember the fields..!'..?Mushroom10:58am, 27th Jun 2014
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Yes, definitely!neems11:07am, 27th Jun 2014
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yepiaincr11:15am, 27th Jun 2014
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yes pleaseStar12:04pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Go on then !bigleggy12:08pm, 27th Jun 2014
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another yesPodkin12:40pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Special limited edition colours, maybe? Blue, orange and white or green, red and white. Or how about some heritage colours based on the Farrow and Ball range?Diogenes1:09pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Aye min, Id be up for that...so long as you will do postage to BRUNEINywanda2:03pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Team JigsMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)2:26pm, 27th Jun 2014
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ayeLorraineS2:30pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Yes pleaseNeilio 2:38pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Yep, I need a new oneLimpet3:03pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Yepplodding hippo3:33pm, 27th Jun 2014
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Yeah, reckonBob!7:51pm, 27th Jun 2014
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I need a new vest. Need, I tell you!Carpathius11:12pm, 27th Jun 2014
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yupflanker12:29am, 28th Jun 2014
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Belatedly, yes, me. I definitely need a new fetch top. And a buff and a cap, maybe? And a new style hoodie?Fizz :-)3:59pm, 28th Jun 2014
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Yes and the more explosive the better. Something Van Gogh might do with a paintball gun!Nightjar9:30pm, 28th Jun 2014
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Sounds like a good ideahonestmackem9:09pm, 29th Jun 2014
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Is this a list?Chromey2:21am, 1st Jul 2014
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Yeah but black please. Red is for, y'know, gooners. Urgh.Fitz8:35pm, 7th Jul 2014
I've been at it again (best viewed full screen):
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I'm making a blog entry for this, because I've had several people ask me now, so it's easier than having to type it out repeatedly
Anyway... if you've installed Garmin Express on your Mac, and you can't find the folder where your Garmin files are stored, you need to read this. If this isn't you, please feel free to talk amongst yourselves
The files are usually stored here:
~username/Library/Application Support/Garmin/GarminConnect/[UnitID]/Upload
However, the Library folder is hidden by default on your Mac, as it contains some stuff that you mostly don't need to touch - stuff that makes programs work - but it seems that Garmin have chosen to store data in there, which makes it a tiny bit harder to find unless you're 'technical'.
Hey ho.
For long-term sanity, the best approach is to 'unhide' the Library folder, although if you're the sort of person who randomly deletes important files from your computer, then be advised that you do this at your own risk
To unhide it, you need to run a program called Terminal. The quickest way to run it is to click the magnifying glass in the top right corner of your screen, type 'terminal' (without the quotes), and look for the Terminal application. Run that, and it'll pop up a little command prompt.
Type the following command and press enter:
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
Then, when you go into Finder, and go to your username folder, you should see a Library folder inside, and you shouldn't have to unhide it ever again. All the subfolders under that should be visible. Navigate your way through the folders as listed above, and you should eventually come to your FIT files. There might be a few sub-folders within 'Upload', so your training could be in any of them.
Then you can click 'Add Training' up at the top of the page ^^^^
and import the FIT files, one at a time.
And another little tip - if you're on the 'Import FIT file' page, you can actually drag the FIT files from the Finder - just drag them onto the 'Choose Files' button.
I hope that's helpful to a few people. If you'd like any more technical 'How To' blogs, drop me a comment.
Anyway... if you've installed Garmin Express on your Mac, and you can't find the folder where your Garmin files are stored, you need to read this. If this isn't you, please feel free to talk amongst yourselves
The files are usually stored here:
~username/Library/Application Support/Garmin/GarminConnect/[UnitID]/Upload
However, the Library folder is hidden by default on your Mac, as it contains some stuff that you mostly don't need to touch - stuff that makes programs work - but it seems that Garmin have chosen to store data in there, which makes it a tiny bit harder to find unless you're 'technical'.
Hey ho.
For long-term sanity, the best approach is to 'unhide' the Library folder, although if you're the sort of person who randomly deletes important files from your computer, then be advised that you do this at your own risk
To unhide it, you need to run a program called Terminal. The quickest way to run it is to click the magnifying glass in the top right corner of your screen, type 'terminal' (without the quotes), and look for the Terminal application. Run that, and it'll pop up a little command prompt.
Type the following command and press enter:
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
Then, when you go into Finder, and go to your username folder, you should see a Library folder inside, and you shouldn't have to unhide it ever again. All the subfolders under that should be visible. Navigate your way through the folders as listed above, and you should eventually come to your FIT files. There might be a few sub-folders within 'Upload', so your training could be in any of them.
Then you can click 'Add Training' up at the top of the page ^^^^
and import the FIT files, one at a time.
And another little tip - if you're on the 'Import FIT file' page, you can actually drag the FIT files from the Finder - just drag them onto the 'Choose Files' button.
I hope that's helpful to a few people. If you'd like any more technical 'How To' blogs, drop me a comment.
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Adding my ha'porth: if you click on Finder, then Option-click Go, a link to the Library appears. I've navigated through that, found the relevant folder and created an alias to that on my desktop. It saves a lot of rooting around at upload time.Longwayround [LWR]11:24am, 25th Jun 2014
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Gosh, MacOS really is Unix underneath, isn't it. chflags, chmod - yum, yum. Now, could you get Garmin to make Ant Agent for Garmin 310xt stop crashing on my Windows Vista laptop pls?! Argh!HappyG(rrr) G1:37pm, 25th Jun 2014
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just get a Mac HG. It's UNIX and grown up X. Even get the choice of shellsflanker It's liek being back at Uni again (but with less booze and drugs)12:31am, 28th Jun 2014
Oh and... I think I saw a stoat on my run. It ran across my path, carrying a dead bird, which it dropped before disappearing into the bushes. It was black with a little white, and was a bit like a cat that had been forced through a narrow drainpipe. It was less "hands and feet" like a rat, and more "arms and legs". The bird looked very dead.
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A weasel's weasly recognised whereas a stoat's stoatly diff'rent.Angus Clydesdale9:49pm, 24th Jun 2014
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Black tail or not, that is the question. All black though!!! hmmmm Mink.Ocelot Spleens10:13pm, 24th Jun 2014
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I thought mink...D211:09pm, 24th Jun 2014
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Mongoose.Dvorak11:47pm, 24th Jun 2014
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the stoat can easily be told from the weasely by the simple fact that his tail is blacked and his figure is slightly the biggermulbs10:13am, 25th Jun 2014
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pics for identification purposes: bbc.co.ukmulbs10:17am, 25th Jun 2014
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Thank you, mulbs - very informativeSarahWoo1:37pm, 25th Jun 2014
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Yep, thanks mulbs. If I had to pick from the line up, I might maybe pick Pine Marten, with Stoat a close second.fetcheveryone1:47pm, 25th Jun 2014
Thank you Scooba Steve I bought a voltage sensor today, and have had fun playing with it, and have got one of the two lights in the utility room working. Sensor=5.99, sense of smug achievement = priceless. I also have a new hobby, walking round sensing voltages. Katie has pointed out that I can tell the boy I have a sonic screwdriver
Five miles today, after Sundays 10. Legs doing ok, but the insect bite on my left ankle is now like a third nipple. On running, we've been having fun tuning up our 5k times recently, and some friends have suggested we try some very short intervals, like a dozen 45s intervals with fairly log recoveries, designed to help leg speed. Sounds good Any other strategies for 5k speed out there?
Caught the end of the test match - I seem to be voodoo for all my favourite sports teams at the moment. If Murray gets to the final, and it goes down to the wire, I'm gonna leave the room.
The boy did drama and yoga at school today
Have you seen your local checkpoints leaderboards yet? Http://www.fetcheveryone.com/checkpoints.php
6-8 miles tomorrow morning with the Katie-tron 3000.
I bought a voltage sensor today, and have had fun playing with it, and have got one of the two lights in the utility room working. Sensor=5.99, sense of smug achievement = priceless. I also have a new hobby, walking round sensing voltages. Katie has pointed out that I can tell the boy I have a sonic screwdriver Five miles today, after Sundays 10. Legs doing ok, but the insect bite on my left ankle is now like a third nipple. On running, we've been having fun tuning up our 5k times recently, and some friends have suggested we try some very short intervals, like a dozen 45s intervals with fairly log recoveries, designed to help leg speed. Sounds good
Any other strategies for 5k speed out there? Caught the end of the test match - I seem to be voodoo for all my favourite sports teams at the moment. If Murray gets to the final, and it goes down to the wire, I'm gonna leave the room.
The boy did drama and yoga at school today
Have you seen your local checkpoints leaderboards yet? Http://www.fetcheveryone.com/checkpoints.php
6-8 miles tomorrow morning with the Katie-tron 3000.
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Oh see now I have something else to get competitive about. Someone else tops the leaderboard on every checkpoint route from my front door, dammit!Bintmcskint
*shakes tiny fist at Fetch for bringing out the worst in her*
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lol at your new hobby! ..... D2 is very tempted by idea of sonic screwdriver..... actually it would make a great present for all the men in my life ..... hmmm thxD29:24pm, 24th Jun 2014
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Strides? Like those 45s very short fast, but... even shorter and faster 10 - 15 seconds, build up to full out sprint, then ease back. Do 4, 6, 8 or 10 in a 5 mile run. Great fun, but don't take anything out of you!HappyG(rrr) G10:12pm, 24th Jun 2014
I should have written this earlier, because now I'm too tired to make any sense.
Still no lights in the utility room, but I'm buying an electricians screwdriver tomorrow so I can test for live wires, and may have to pull out the ceiling insulation. Luckily the room isn't boarded out yet.
Today I've been working on the checkpoint leaderboards and scoring system. Will be quite exciting to see it all come together.
Strange day for us today, with my two eldest step sons going overseas, one for a month, the other for a year. Lots of hugs needed all round amongst the rest of us.
I have a double ankle, thanks to a tiny little midge thing that sucked my blood in the garden yesterday.
Weight 12st8 today
Best news: my boy swam 12m front crawl in his swimming lesson
Still no lights in the utility room, but I'm buying an electricians screwdriver tomorrow so I can test for live wires, and may have to pull out the ceiling insulation. Luckily the room isn't boarded out yet.
Today I've been working on the checkpoint leaderboards and scoring system. Will be quite exciting to see it all come together.
Strange day for us today, with my two eldest step sons going overseas, one for a month, the other for a year. Lots of hugs needed all round amongst the rest of us.
I have a double ankle, thanks to a tiny little midge thing that sucked my blood in the garden yesterday.
Weight 12st8 today
Best news: my boy swam 12m front crawl in his swimming lesson
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When I have a problem like this I call my friend Terry, and he comes over a fixes it. You need to get yourself a friend called Terry.Diogenes10:18pm, 23rd Jun 2014
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((((hugs)))) for departing kids. I know how it feels.LindsD10:29pm, 23rd Jun 2014
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Terry Bell - Electricians...ive seen their vanBazoaxe10:34pm, 23rd Jun 2014
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My electrician is called Phil Watt, no really.lammo9:09am, 24th Jun 2014
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Phil What?fetcheveryone9:11am, 24th Jun 2014
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Huw Watt would be betterjennywren9:25am, 24th Jun 2014
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Hey Fetch if you see this before going shopping try and get something like this instead screwfix.com a lot safer than the electricians screwdriver which electricians don't use! Only a couple of quid more, detect voltage through cables/sockets etc without touching bare wires. I guarantee for half an hour or so you will walk around the house trying it on everything!Scooba Steve9:29am, 24th Jun 2014
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Oh yes, definitely what Steve said. I've got one of those "pens" and the day it arrived in the post was completely written off to running round the house 'testing' stuff!Angus Clydesdale10:15am, 24th Jun 2014
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Avon SkinSoSoft dry oil spray with jojoba and citronella. Better than full on DEET insect repellent. Fact!Lalli12:46pm, 24th Jun 2014
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Fetch - a electrican is cheaper in the long run and will have it sorted in about 1hr. Don't further your problems and add additional cost.Argie2:14pm, 24th Jun 2014
I had a simple task today. Take down two tube lights, and replace them with simple ceiling roses. They're in our utility room. It's a long thin room, so there are switches at both ends that control the lights
Switching off the power, I took a look inside inside one of them. For all I could see, the whole unit attaches to the power supply with one live (brown), one neutral (blue), and an earth. Beyond this, I can see that the tube light has various inner workings, like some sort of transformer, but as far as I can see, that's all self-contained.
The other tube light has a pair of lives, a pair of neutrals, and a pair of earths, and each of these pairs go into the relevant live, neutral and earth connections on the tube light.
The problem is this. I took them both down, and replaced them with roses. Nothing.
I put the tube lights back. Nothing.
There is another light on the same circuit that's over the outside door, and that's not working either now.
Our fuse box has little circuit breakers for each circuit, and I've checked that the relevant one is back on. The other loops in the house are all fine. I've double checked the bayonet bulbs that I've been using, and they're fine.
I'm officially A Bit Annoyed now, which isn't good for problem solving.
Are there any fetch electricians out there who could talk me down?
Switching off the power, I took a look inside inside one of them. For all I could see, the whole unit attaches to the power supply with one live (brown), one neutral (blue), and an earth. Beyond this, I can see that the tube light has various inner workings, like some sort of transformer, but as far as I can see, that's all self-contained.
The other tube light has a pair of lives, a pair of neutrals, and a pair of earths, and each of these pairs go into the relevant live, neutral and earth connections on the tube light.
The problem is this. I took them both down, and replaced them with roses. Nothing.
I put the tube lights back. Nothing.
There is another light on the same circuit that's over the outside door, and that's not working either now.
Our fuse box has little circuit breakers for each circuit, and I've checked that the relevant one is back on. The other loops in the house are all fine. I've double checked the bayonet bulbs that I've been using, and they're fine.
I'm officially A Bit Annoyed now, which isn't good for problem solving.
Are there any fetch electricians out there who could talk me down?
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I wish I could offer some advice but one of our living room ceiling roses has been bust for months now. Most annoying.Ness5:28pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Mr W says it sounds like the tubes were looped, so you needed to recreate the circuit, live in, loop out, in the same sequence. This means nothing to me but may help? Other than that he says he can't help without seeing the job.... A very electriciany answer!Winniefree5:43pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Oh dear, I feel your pain but have no answersD25:57pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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A 2 way switch arrangement SHOULD use a 4 wire cable, not 3. If it's been done with 3 wires you'll likely find that the earth has been used as one of the live wires - which is a bit naughty. You can find wiring guides on t'internet.oi you6:11pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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I successfully changed a light bulb in the living room yesterday :-). Which is the extent of my knowledge, so unable to helpMuddie6:21pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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2-way switching uses 3c+e cable between the switches but not at the light fitting, Fetch can you disconnect everything and start from scratch? A normal rose light fitting would have 3 pairs of t+e cable, in, out and switch cable. If your set-up only has one cable at one light and 2 at the other it is likely the single cable light is just running off the first one and the first one is connected to the main lighting circuit somewhere in the ceiling void so your not seeing the 3 t+e cables at the fitting.Scooba Steve
Can you disconnect all of the cables and with the power and switch ON test for live at all of them, if it;s wired how I think only one core will be live, this is the switched live - connect this to the L in new light and the other core of that cable to the N which should give you one working light. the second light can then be connected up to the same terminals as the first to give you both lights.6:40pm, 22nd Jun 2014 -
Oh just a stupid thought - did you connect the Lives to the L terminal in the middle of the rose and the Neutrals to the N terminal in the rose too? If so you have'nt connected any power to the switched live which feeds the bulb itself (Where the brown cable of the flex is connected) if this has an empty terminal beside it that's the problem - can you take a picture? And following my post above it's the switched Live terminal you need to connect to - you can ignore the loop L in the middle of the rose.Scooba Steve6:45pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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I once tried to change a light fitting. There was 8 fucking wires which I fixed. Thankfully I paid a electrian to put it and all the other blown electrics right.Argie7:52pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Wonders whether there is any electricity chez fetch....D28:08pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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I replaced a ceiling rose last weekend, after tripping he circuit breaker twice I thought I'd got it right the third time. This weekend I have found that the light switch to the loft light now turns on the landing light (which is the one I changed) but not the loft light. If you figure yours out you are welcome to come over and share the knowledge and fix mine!!Elsie Too9:56pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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My head hurts....Alice the Camel9:03am, 23rd Jun 2014
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Working on the basis that the light with two cables is taking a live in, and feeding the other, I've tried attaching the light fitting to just one of these cables (if it's the feeder cable, nothing will happen, if it's the live, I'd expect to see the light). Unfortunately, neither is working :-/ Maybe time to buy a multimeter?fetcheveryone10:09am, 23rd Jun 2014
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From your original description it sounds like the first light is just connected in parallel with the second and the 2nd is taking a switched live and neutral. Basically what Scoob said - I'd look for another junction box between the lights and the switches. But I wonder if they did something equally non standard with the switches - something like Distribution panel - Switch 1 - Switch 2 - Light - Light. Just a cheap electricians screwdriver is what you need. And just maybe they stuck an extra fuse in there somewhere that you have blown.Nightjar1:36pm, 23rd Jun 2014
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I second looking for another fuse - utility room so it's 'possible' it's been fused down off the socket ring via a fused spur, and yeah check at switches to see if there are more cables there than you would expect! one switch should just have one cable (3 core+earth) in it and the other should have 2 cables (1 twin+earth and a 3 core + earth which links to the second switch)Scooba Steve3:55pm, 23rd Jun 2014
It seems like lots of people are being pushed toward upgrading to Garmin Express, and then finding that the Garmin Communicator Plugin (the thing that lets Fetch see what's on your watch) is no longer finding any data to import.
I have a working Garmin plugin, and have been able to import with no real problems for ever, so I'm going to try following Garmin's plan, install Express, and make some notes about what happens.
First of all, when it loads up, it checks and finds that I've got ANT Agent installed. That's the thing that lets the USB stick talk to your watch wirelessly, and grab the data from it. It tells me that it intends to remove that. I think the software that speaks to your watch is all contained inside Express.
I let it. It completes the installation pretty quick after that.
It asks me to plug in my ANT stick, so that it can find my watch and all the data on it. I do that, and it comes up with a little pic of my watch, and an "Add Device" button. I click that, and it asks me to enable pairing on the watch, and there's a link to explain how to do so.
I follow the instructions to set up pairing, which are fairly straightforward, and click next. The watch bleeps and asks me to let it pair with Garmin Express - I say yes.
After a bit of waiting, it wants me to pair the watch to a Garmin Connect account - I've got one set up, so I entered my details, and it confirmed that it was all complete.
It tells me that the watch is now synced with Garmin Connect. That's fine, I don't really care about that because Fetch is much better All I want to know is whether the Garmin Communicator Plugin will still be able to access my runs.
The plugin is still installed.
The plugin runs ok (Chrome asks me each time if I'm happy for it to run, and as always, I say yes).
It tells me that there's no watch to be found
I try looking in /Library/Application Support/Garmin/Devices/[DeviceID]/Activities, which is where my files are normally stored on the Mac - they're gone
However... it's not all bad news. I did a bit of digging, and found that the LATEST version of Garmin Express *does* store a copy of the files locally. I don't think that was the case with the initial incarnations, but perhaps they've acted following the volume of responses from users. I don't know. Anyway, if you have the latest version (looks like 3.2.6 on my Mac), files are now stored locally.
On the Mac it's:
~username/Library/Application Support/Garmin/GarminConnect/[UnitID]/Upload
On Vista, 7 and 8, it's:
C:\ProgramData\Garmin\GarminConnect[Device\[UnitID]\Upload
On Win XP it's:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Garmin\GarminConnect\[UnitID]\Upload
(NB Some of these folders [Library on the Mac, Program Data and Application Data on Windows] are hidden by default by your operating system, but if you have trouble finding them, post a comment below).
So the files that correspond to each of your runs are still available on the machine in 'FIT' format. This means that although the mass-import method will stop working if you "upgrade" to Express, you can still upload the files individually - which, if you upload one run at a time, or even a few runs at a time, it's not too tricky to click 'Add Training' and browse to the file. If this is you, I'd strongly recommend that you bookmark / shortcut / memorise the folder where your files live.
Clearly it's not ideal. I can kind of understand why Garmin have created this standalone program that uploads the runs without having to involve the browser. It simplifies the process by removing a few things that can go wrong. Judging by the volume of feedback I get from people about problems they've had with the plugin, Garmin must have had plenty of unhappy users knocking at their door. I've also heard that increasingly, browsers are moving away from plugins, as they are the biggest cause of crashes and security holes.
I've heard unconfirmed rumours that Garmin are offering the opportunity for third-party websites to get seamless syncing with watch data, and the potential fee of $5000 has been mentioned. I've asked them for more information about that.
In the mean time, I'd suggest that if you just upload your data to Fetch, and are not too bothered about the Garmin site, then avoid Express for now, and keep your current set-up. If you *have* installed Express, you could maybe look at uninstalling it (all at your own risk i.e. don't sue me, the stress would kill me), and reinstalling ANT agent - the page for downloading it is still available here:
www8.garmin.com
If you don't want to do *that*, then you can look at finding the folders listed earlier in this blog (if you can't find them, check which version of Express you have), and importing your files that way. And if you don't want to get your hands that dirty, you can find your runs on Garmin Connect, and look for the 'Export' button next to each one, and save the file as a GPX or TCX, then use our 'Add Training' link up top to import it.
Or of course, you could use a Timex, a TomTom, a Polar, or a Suunto, all of which have a folder on your computer where they store their files.
Or you could just use the clock on the oven as you go out the back door, and don't worry too much about the numbers.
I have a working Garmin plugin, and have been able to import with no real problems for ever, so I'm going to try following Garmin's plan, install Express, and make some notes about what happens.
First of all, when it loads up, it checks and finds that I've got ANT Agent installed. That's the thing that lets the USB stick talk to your watch wirelessly, and grab the data from it. It tells me that it intends to remove that. I think the software that speaks to your watch is all contained inside Express.
I let it. It completes the installation pretty quick after that.
It asks me to plug in my ANT stick, so that it can find my watch and all the data on it. I do that, and it comes up with a little pic of my watch, and an "Add Device" button. I click that, and it asks me to enable pairing on the watch, and there's a link to explain how to do so.
I follow the instructions to set up pairing, which are fairly straightforward, and click next. The watch bleeps and asks me to let it pair with Garmin Express - I say yes.
After a bit of waiting, it wants me to pair the watch to a Garmin Connect account - I've got one set up, so I entered my details, and it confirmed that it was all complete.
It tells me that the watch is now synced with Garmin Connect. That's fine, I don't really care about that because Fetch is much better
All I want to know is whether the Garmin Communicator Plugin will still be able to access my runs. The plugin is still installed.
The plugin runs ok (Chrome asks me each time if I'm happy for it to run, and as always, I say yes).
It tells me that there's no watch to be found
I try looking in /Library/Application Support/Garmin/Devices/[DeviceID]/Activities, which is where my files are normally stored on the Mac - they're gone
However... it's not all bad news. I did a bit of digging, and found that the LATEST version of Garmin Express *does* store a copy of the files locally. I don't think that was the case with the initial incarnations, but perhaps they've acted following the volume of responses from users. I don't know. Anyway, if you have the latest version (looks like 3.2.6 on my Mac), files are now stored locally.
On the Mac it's:
~username/Library/Application Support/Garmin/GarminConnect/[UnitID]/Upload
On Vista, 7 and 8, it's:
C:\ProgramData\Garmin\GarminConnect[Device\[UnitID]\Upload
On Win XP it's:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Garmin\GarminConnect\[UnitID]\Upload
(NB Some of these folders [Library on the Mac, Program Data and Application Data on Windows] are hidden by default by your operating system, but if you have trouble finding them, post a comment below).
So the files that correspond to each of your runs are still available on the machine in 'FIT' format. This means that although the mass-import method will stop working if you "upgrade" to Express, you can still upload the files individually - which, if you upload one run at a time, or even a few runs at a time, it's not too tricky to click 'Add Training' and browse to the file. If this is you, I'd strongly recommend that you bookmark / shortcut / memorise the folder where your files live.
Clearly it's not ideal. I can kind of understand why Garmin have created this standalone program that uploads the runs without having to involve the browser. It simplifies the process by removing a few things that can go wrong. Judging by the volume of feedback I get from people about problems they've had with the plugin, Garmin must have had plenty of unhappy users knocking at their door. I've also heard that increasingly, browsers are moving away from plugins, as they are the biggest cause of crashes and security holes.
I've heard unconfirmed rumours that Garmin are offering the opportunity for third-party websites to get seamless syncing with watch data, and the potential fee of $5000 has been mentioned. I've asked them for more information about that.
In the mean time, I'd suggest that if you just upload your data to Fetch, and are not too bothered about the Garmin site, then avoid Express for now, and keep your current set-up. If you *have* installed Express, you could maybe look at uninstalling it (all at your own risk i.e. don't sue me, the stress would kill me), and reinstalling ANT agent - the page for downloading it is still available here:
www8.garmin.com
If you don't want to do *that*, then you can look at finding the folders listed earlier in this blog (if you can't find them, check which version of Express you have), and importing your files that way. And if you don't want to get your hands that dirty, you can find your runs on Garmin Connect, and look for the 'Export' button next to each one, and save the file as a GPX or TCX, then use our 'Add Training' link up top to import it.
Or of course, you could use a Timex, a TomTom, a Polar, or a Suunto, all of which have a folder on your computer where they store their files.
Or you could just use the clock on the oven as you go out the back door, and don't worry too much about the numbers.
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OMG - Garmin Express is apalllllling. I've had further complications, but in short, that effing software is currently rendering my new 310XT unusable.McGoohan7:48am, 22nd Jun 2014
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I hate to say it, but Garmin are rapidly becoming less and less attractive with the unreliability of both hardware and softwareeL Bee!
At least the edge 800 plugs into the computer with an actual wire, and the files are easy to find7:56am, 22nd Jun 2014 -
Hmm, I'm very low-key and dinosaur-like. I've not upgraded to Garmin Express, hard-wired the watch to my old XP computer (some bloody update has buggered up the other one - still psyching myself up to try and sort it out!) but run not found on here. I'll try to work out how to import it from the Garmin Connect.alpenrose8:57am, 22nd Jun 2014
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Find the run on Garmin Connect, click to view it in detail, then look for the button / link titled 'Export'. Choose TCX or GPX, and save that file somewhere.fetcheveryone8:59am, 22nd Jun 2014
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I'm sending the 310XT back - I can't even get to Garmin Connect. I am in a bit of a rage with Garmin for this.McGoohan
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Thanks for the notes, Lord Fetch -your description corresponds exactly to my experience since moving to Garmin Express.Dooogs
There's one other annoyance - once in a while (cause not clear - possibly if you have to hard-restart your watch), Garmin Express imports everything on your watch to the PC - potentially a couple of hundred runs if you've had your watch a couple of years. Worse, it seems to date the indiivdual FIT files from when uploaded and I've not found a field showing when the run was actually created on the watch - so it's near impossilble to find your last couple of runs amongst all the runs you've done in the last couple of years...
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Oh, sounds way too complimacated for this blondenorthernslowcoach10:39am, 22nd Jun 2014
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A bigger PITA for me is that although finding the fit file on the laptop is easy enough (and it remembers which folder you were browsing too on fetch,kstuart
stravaand sporttracks so thats good) it doesn't actually save it as a fit file. GOt to manually add on the .fit each time and then go thru the you want to change file nonsense windows does (dont want to change the settings here just yet as win 8 is still new to me). Also does the file altering thing when i move the uploaded ones into a uploaded folder i added.10:54am, 22nd Jun 2014 -
I accidentally "upgraded" to express. I am going to uninstall it cos all it's done is eat my dataAJH10:56am, 22nd Jun 2014
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I have the forerunner 305 and Garmin Express. What seems to happen for me is that as long as I try to upload to Fetch after Garmin Express has done its transfer everything is okay. Not ideal, but poor Garmin can't do two things at once, so it is only transferring to one place at a time. Once uploaded to Garmin Connect, I just hit the add training button and although sometimes it is a bit slower than usual, it does upload. Hopefully that will help for some folksCorrah10:58am, 22nd Jun 2014
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Yup, exactly the experience I had. All of my problems were solved when I uninstalled Express. Though it was a faff importing FIT files, the biggest problem I had with Express was it wouldn't allow me to upload gpx courses to my 910 - something I was keen to do for The upcoming Lakeland 50. Used ANT agent and boom, no problem! I just wish it hadn't taken me hours to work the solution was so simple - avoid Express!missvivvy11:01am, 22nd Jun 2014
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Do you have any additional clout with Garmin based on the number of Garmin users trying to upload to your web-site? At the moment I'm too scared to try to upgrade from my dodgy 305.Helegant12:37pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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phew....such a relief its not just me!! I've uninstalled express and am happy againDocM1:47pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Garmin can go fuck itself until I can port easily into fetch (the website, not literally you)Argie2:20pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Oh i should add this being i forgot earlier there is one big plus point for express in that i merely have to save the run and then pop ant stick in. It data transfers etc all on its own. With just ant stick i had to er return watch to data transfer on (it never stays on and always reverted to off pre express upgrade) as well as setting the ant agent to acquire too which was a fair bit of faff.kstuart
Now does anyone know what the last part of the fit file transfer info means, some such per hour nonsense.2:21pm, 22nd Jun 2014 -
I've been finding the Suunto finds a satellite faster, uploads faster and autouploads toLalli
stravaand has a much longer battery life. My Garmin 405 is only getting the odd outing these days - generally when I cycle to and from work or walk the dog! Shame really.2:40pm, 22nd Jun 2014 -
Sounds like you might have the ANT agent installed in parallel. Will keep reply shortfetcheveryone5:16pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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I recently bought a Garmin 310XT, installed Garmin Express because Garmin indicated that it was necessary to transfer data, and had the same awful connection failures that you and others mention. Eventually, I uninstalled Express, uninstalled and reinstalled Ant and now everything functions perfectly, with Ant downloading the activity data to my computer (http://www.fetcheveryone.com/article-view.php?id=407 "Folders Where Things are Kept") which Fetch can then recognise and upload to my training.Flatlander
AVOID Express at all costs. It's only necessary if you want to upload to your Garmin Connect Account.5:40pm, 22nd Jun 2014 -
I do the oven clock thing, works for mefleecy Must be bloody annoying for people wanting to play games on here though 7:41pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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I tried the oven clock thing but found that carrying an oven slowed me down.Longwayround [LWR]8:30pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Ta for info earlier. Before reading the blog again, I thought I'd try loading on here again. It found all 264 events including yesterday's and today's.alpenrose8:52pm, 22nd Jun 2014
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Sorry my issues not resolved. hidden files remain hidden and Garmin device and Ant stick still not talking. *Still waiting on a resolution from Garmin*snogard
Fetch can find all runs from Dec 2013 to May 24th 2014 when things went wrong. *Still waiting on Garmin*10:10pm, 22nd Jun 2014 -
Is there not a way of linking the new folderlocation to the old one to fool communicator plugin?Lumsdoni2:24pm, 23rd Jun 2014
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accidentally upgraded to Express so wish I hadnt, my 310xt is now rendered useless - plugin, watch & pc now cant/wont see each other and nothing gets uploaded. Have uninstalled it and going to use Fetch's link to install the old one. I dont care so much about not using the garmin connect site as long as I can use my data on here.Yorkshire Lass9:20am, 24th Jun 2014
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Avoiding express until it makes me. My first task is to try to dredge up what the hell I used for my connect account name/password/email. I have NEVER used connect to log into myself. If garmin and fetch fall out (in a software sense) I am going to fall out with garmin (in a looking at alternative GPS devices sense.leaguefreak
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I have a Mac and Garmin 620. When I go for a run I use my Garmin...Grid
1. I use wi-fi on the Garmin to upload the run to Garmin Connect. Requires Garmin Express or Garmin Express Fit (I installed the later) to set up the wi-fi, but you don't have to run it after that.
2. I use tapiriik.com to automagically copy the run to Dropbox (as a TCX file) and to Strava.
3. I then grab the TCX from Dropbox and upload it to Fetch.
If I go out on my bike, I'll usestravaon my phone to track it. Once finished I use tapiriik to, again, automagically copy the run to Dropbox and then use the file created to upload to Fetch.
There.1:20pm, 25th Jun 2014 -
Another satisfied Fetchie. Have uninstalled Express, re-installed the ANT Agent and I can now get my training onto Fetch from my shiny new 310 xt. Bit slower than uploading from my old 305 though.APaulW8:58pm, 2nd Jul 2014
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I wish I had seen this blog post in June instead of today, Express corrupted my 310 and ate the data. Then Gramin Support told me to uninstall express because it was 'buggy.' Since then my 310 had the Garmin equiv of terminal BSOD without the screen being actual blue. Swapped out for a returned 310 and then snapped my ANT stick. Now waiting for a new ANT stick, hopefully, it will arrive tomorrow. Currently, my PC can't even find my wired 310. Having to use my very old 305.Ted12:23pm, 26th Oct 2014
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Excellent blog, really helpful. Garmin Express uninstalled today, ANT just re-installing now!♪♫ Synge ♪♫10:58pm, 9th Dec 2014
Let's see if I can get my blog done now so I don't have to squeeze it in later.
We woke up at about 7.30 this morning, and the dog was moaning to go out, so I took a turn at making the tea and toast.
We parkrun'ed - it was really quite warm for 9am, and we both spent the walk to the starting area umming and ahhing about whether we were going to try hard or not. But when the shout of 'Go' came, I set off like a scalded sloth.
I'd remembered to get my watch ready before the start this time, and the first mile was slightly sub-7. I had a bit of a stitch in mile 2, but still was managing to keep my average pace down around 7. The third mile was hard, and the final hilly bit was a b*tch, but I reached the final downhill with an average of about 7:02, so I steamed onwards, imagining that I'd sneak under 22 mins, and if not, I should definitely beat last weeks 22:03. But unfortunately, although I kept up the pace for the last couple of hundred yards, I think the finish line was not quite where I'd have liked it to be. I got an official 22:13.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/t-10205838
But I'm not worried about that really - I'm very pleased in fact. It's 26s quicker than my season's best at Bedford, so it kind of proves that last week at Beeston wasn't a fluke or a product of a short course (in fact, I'm taking the line that Bedford is a little long )
I've also noticed that when I set my best ever 5k time, back in 2008, I was more or less exactly 11st. Today, I was carrying something more like 12st10 around with me. I think that probably counts as a weight-adjusted PB, and I'd be interested to see how a few pounds less might have an impact. I'm also carrying round a good deal more happy.
It's been suggested a few times that I should look at the database to write an article about the relationships between weight and speed. I'm *NOT* going to do that. There's enough pressure on people to keep pushing the envelope as it is, and I don't want to contribute to that pressure. If you're out there exercising a few times a week, you're doing good. But I'm curious for me.
Then we went to the coffee shop, and I had a massive brownie with chocolate so dense that it would make a black hole look intelligent
We woke up at about 7.30 this morning, and the dog was moaning to go out, so I took a turn at making the tea and toast.
We parkrun'ed - it was really quite warm for 9am, and we both spent the walk to the starting area umming and ahhing about whether we were going to try hard or not. But when the shout of 'Go' came, I set off like a scalded sloth.
I'd remembered to get my watch ready before the start this time, and the first mile was slightly sub-7. I had a bit of a stitch in mile 2, but still was managing to keep my average pace down around 7. The third mile was hard, and the final hilly bit was a b*tch, but I reached the final downhill with an average of about 7:02, so I steamed onwards, imagining that I'd sneak under 22 mins, and if not, I should definitely beat last weeks 22:03. But unfortunately, although I kept up the pace for the last couple of hundred yards, I think the finish line was not quite where I'd have liked it to be. I got an official 22:13.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/t-10205838
But I'm not worried about that really - I'm very pleased in fact. It's 26s quicker than my season's best at Bedford, so it kind of proves that last week at Beeston wasn't a fluke or a product of a short course (in fact, I'm taking the line that Bedford is a little long
) I've also noticed that when I set my best ever 5k time, back in 2008, I was more or less exactly 11st. Today, I was carrying something more like 12st10 around with me. I think that probably counts as a weight-adjusted PB, and I'd be interested to see how a few pounds less might have an impact. I'm also carrying round a good deal more happy.
It's been suggested a few times that I should look at the database to write an article about the relationships between weight and speed. I'm *NOT* going to do that. There's enough pressure on people to keep pushing the envelope as it is, and I don't want to contribute to that pressure. If you're out there exercising a few times a week, you're doing good. But I'm curious for me.
Then we went to the coffee shop, and I had a massive brownie with chocolate so dense that it would make a black hole look intelligent
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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I know full well that the extra half a stone of blubber I'm carrying is slowing me down. If there were such things as weight-adjusted PBs it would just give me even more excuse to stuff my face instead of being more sensible. Nice parkrunning!LazyDaisy2:20pm, 21st Jun 2014
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I like the idea of weight-adjusted PBs - I reckon I have a few.Dvorak4:23pm, 21st Jun 2014
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Great running!:)Garfield6:39pm, 21st Jun 2014
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WAVA now I know what the W stands for.! 4 seconds per mile per kg is my experience. Until I get too light. Too light for me is about 66kgs I'm 185 cm, height not waste. Ian, I'd be really interested in looking at weight and race times. But you're right people, including me obsess too much over their weight.milemonster6:35am, 22nd Jun 2014
A quick catch up tonight.
I spent a large proportion of the day delving into the JavaScript that Garmin supply that speaks to their browser plugin. I've traced the functionality all the way down to where it disappears into 'plugin', but there's absolutely nowhere where you can configure the plugin to look in certain folders. I'm also struggling to make the plugin work for the Garmin 10. It's working on the Garmin site of course, but then they do have a slight advantage I will also try installing Garmin Express soon, as that seems to have put the cat amongst the pigeons for a lot of you uploaders. Frankly I don't blame them for reinventing the upload method though, as the incumbent stuff they've been using has been the bane of my feedback inbox for the last six years.
What I'm really hoping is that their new system will still leave some files on the hard drive. This gives me the option of writing my own little bit of desktop code that can find them and send them to Fetch. The other alternative (so long as the files are accessible) is to offer an option whereby you can email your files to the server.
Sorry, just needed to brain dump that. Just pretend those last few paragraphs didn't happen.
Nice run this morning - cool and gentle, before the day got hot. Katie tells me I looked very relaxed when I got back, ad it felt that way.
Back to Bedford parkrun tomorrow, not sure what to expect after last week. I expect cake afterwards though.
I spent a large proportion of the day delving into the JavaScript that Garmin supply that speaks to their browser plugin. I've traced the functionality all the way down to where it disappears into 'plugin', but there's absolutely nowhere where you can configure the plugin to look in certain folders. I'm also struggling to make the plugin work for the Garmin 10. It's working on the Garmin site of course, but then they do have a slight advantage
I will also try installing Garmin Express soon, as that seems to have put the cat amongst the pigeons for a lot of you uploaders. Frankly I don't blame them for reinventing the upload method though, as the incumbent stuff they've been using has been the bane of my feedback inbox for the last six years. What I'm really hoping is that their new system will still leave some files on the hard drive. This gives me the option of writing my own little bit of desktop code that can find them and send them to Fetch. The other alternative (so long as the files are accessible) is to offer an option whereby you can email your files to the server.
Sorry, just needed to brain dump that. Just pretend those last few paragraphs didn't happen.
Nice run this morning - cool and gentle, before the day got hot. Katie tells me I looked very relaxed when I got back, ad it felt that way.
Back to Bedford parkrun tomorrow, not sure what to expect after last week. I expect cake afterwards though.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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I have a new Garmin. NEW GARMIN! First run tomorrow. I have to work out which of these bits of plastic and wire is an ANT stick. This could be awesome. Or maybe not.McGoohan10:34pm, 20th Jun 2014
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I will be on standby with a fire bucketfetcheveryone10:40pm, 20th Jun 2014
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It's the brown sticky thing. Over there. The one covered in industrious insects.Angus Clydesdale11:41pm, 20th Jun 2014
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McG - if you end up with Express, I've heard from another user that you can find the run files at C:\ProgramData\Garmin\GarminConnect\[Unit Name]\Upload\FitnessHistoryfetcheveryone1:08pm, 21st Jun 2014
Finally got my car back today after a couple of weeks of waiting for the relevant parts to be sent off for repair. The bill was £826 - ouch
Spent the day potching about answering feedback and continuing the CSS tidy up. I CBA to explain it all today, but it's a good thing. Lets go for a metaphor - it's a bit like you're in a room with a hundred tellies, and you're making it so that you can control them all with one zapper.
Football. Pah. A bit exciting but a big dollop of dull. I'd rather watch Wales lose at rugby than watch football. I think I may get my chance on Saturday, but I remain breathlessly optimistic as always.
I really must blog some stuff about uploading from Garmins - it represents typically about 50% of the requests for help I get in the feedback inbox.
But not tonight. I'm continuing doggedly with Walden. Finding it pretty turgid, but sticking with it.
Spent the day potching about answering feedback and continuing the CSS tidy up. I CBA to explain it all today, but it's a good thing. Lets go for a metaphor - it's a bit like you're in a room with a hundred tellies, and you're making it so that you can control them all with one zapper.
Football. Pah. A bit exciting but a big dollop of dull. I'd rather watch Wales lose at rugby than watch football. I think I may get my chance on Saturday, but I remain breathlessly optimistic as always.
I really must blog some stuff about uploading from Garmins - it represents typically about 50% of the requests for help I get in the feedback inbox.
But not tonight. I'm continuing doggedly with Walden. Finding it pretty turgid, but sticking with it.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Walden remains on my shelves where it is doing a fine job of holding up other booksMcGoohan10:33pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Ouch indeed!sallykate9:46am, 20th Jun 2014
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My 310xt Ant Agent crashes *all* the time (literally 5 times per attempted upload) - but it's a Garmin / my PC problem (Vista Business on my wife's laptop that I can't play with), so not your prob. But it's an ache!HappyG(rrr)
My claim to fame is that I have not watched a single WC game. I don't really like football. I'll watch the occasional Champs league final, lots of skill, speed. But most WC / International games are just so dull.
Did you see the FB pic doing the rounds? Footballer lying on ground clutching knee vs. rugby player standing with blood pouring out of bandaged head. Caption "Football, a game where you spend 90 mins pretending you're injured when you're not. Rugby, a game where you spend 80 mins pretending you're not injured, when you are! G12:35pm, 20th Jun 2014 -
Garmin issues I'm sure are mostly down to *getting the ant usb thing in the corner to see the watch *getting the ant thing and garmin express to stop fighting ( I think I might remove Garmin Express...) *Getting Garmin connect to send things to the watch (ant is involved here) *Getting on fetch and using the garmin communicator plugin before ant gets hold of the data and copies it somewhere random on my PC otherwise I have to tell the watch to transfer everything all over again however I think ant might be required to be working for the communicator plugin to work!!! *underscores in route names seem to break shitJustCommando!
(I work at Large Software Company in support and it's beyond me and believe me I know about rubbish logging and odd non reproducible issues. How anyone else copes I don't know. Considering separate PC's for different Garmin devices now)2:45pm, 20th Jun 2014
Hot on the heels of the blog changes, I've made some updates to the forum threads, which are now live.
The main thrust of the changes came about because of the way in which thread headers get used these days. In case you're not aware, the thread header is the bit that used to be above all the posts, usually with a description of what was in the thread. Often, these are things like: lists of who's having a baby, who's running in what race, who's hit what target, or instructions or common stuff that always comes up in that thread. It's kind of like a summary.
It's one of those lovely things about writing code - that you never really know how it's going to get used. When I first made them, I envisaged that people would put maybe 1-2 lines of description in there - but they've grown into their own wonderful thing.
The problem that comes about because of this unexpected use is that the actual posts on the thread get shunted right down the page. In a lot of cases, when I looked at a page, I'd have to scroll down before I saw even the first post. Thread headers are good, but if you're reading a thread, they don't change often enough to make them worth scrolling past *every* time you change page.
I tried putting the thread headers behind an 'expand' button a while ago, but I seem to remember getting flamed like a BK Whopper for that
So instead I've shaved around 100px off the width of the column that contain the thread posts, and put the header on the right-hand-side. It means that the posts are always right there at the top, which I hope is better.
Beyond that, I've used the common styles that you'll have seen on all the key pages of the site - which will help take the site towards some lovely skins, and responsive design.
Drop me some comments, and let me know what you think.
In other news, today's been a nice day - five miles this morning with the Katietron 3000, then some coffee and cake. Busy evening, with karate and cubs - and dealing with that age old question from the boy at bedtime: "What's f**king?" I told him it was another word for sex, which was enough to put him off asking any more questions
The main thrust of the changes came about because of the way in which thread headers get used these days. In case you're not aware, the thread header is the bit that used to be above all the posts, usually with a description of what was in the thread. Often, these are things like: lists of who's having a baby, who's running in what race, who's hit what target, or instructions or common stuff that always comes up in that thread. It's kind of like a summary.
It's one of those lovely things about writing code - that you never really know how it's going to get used. When I first made them, I envisaged that people would put maybe 1-2 lines of description in there - but they've grown into their own wonderful thing.
The problem that comes about because of this unexpected use is that the actual posts on the thread get shunted right down the page. In a lot of cases, when I looked at a page, I'd have to scroll down before I saw even the first post. Thread headers are good, but if you're reading a thread, they don't change often enough to make them worth scrolling past *every* time you change page.
I tried putting the thread headers behind an 'expand' button a while ago, but I seem to remember getting flamed like a BK Whopper for that
So instead I've shaved around 100px off the width of the column that contain the thread posts, and put the header on the right-hand-side. It means that the posts are always right there at the top, which I hope is better.
Beyond that, I've used the common styles that you'll have seen on all the key pages of the site - which will help take the site towards some lovely skins, and responsive design.
Drop me some comments, and let me know what you think.
In other news, today's been a nice day - five miles this morning with the Katietron 3000, then some coffee and cake. Busy evening, with karate and cubs - and dealing with that age old question from the boy at bedtime: "What's f**king?" I told him it was another word for sex, which was enough to put him off asking any more questions
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Like!eL Bee!
Must admit the only thing I'm not so keen on is the white writing on a coloured background.10:53pm, 18th Jun 2014 -
I knew they were different but couldn't work out why! Big improvementAlice the Camel10:56pm, 18th Jun 2014
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I likes it.McGoohan
(The one thing I think looks a bit 'old' now on the site - a bit controv this - is the banner up there ^^^^ with the pics of us lot. It's just a bit uninteresting I suppose.)10:58pm, 18th Jun 2014 -
I'll get to thatfetcheveryone10:59pm, 18th Jun 2014
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One of our end of year tests has a box on the front, under the box for 'name', which just says 'sex' next to it. One of my boys wrinkled up his nose and muttered, 'Disgusting,' quite loudly when he saw it.HowFar?11:02pm, 18th Jun 2014
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Let me know what you think, as long as you agree?!Angus Clydesdale
Live is life. I expect it will just become the norm. Sorry for wasting you time with feedback earlier.11:17pm, 18th Jun 2014 -
I'm sorry you don't like the changes Angus.fetcheveryone11:29pm, 18th Jun 2014
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thumbs up from over here: as usual you took people's suggestions and ran with them where you could. I won't be asking for my money backfleecy7:07am, 19th Jun 2014
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Don't know what pic McG means! I still use the Christmas skin with the snowmen on because I like the coloured lights down the sides.Nightjar
Could you also shave some pixels off the grey boxes with the avatar in? Problem with long names though I suppose.1:45pm, 19th Jun 2014 -
Yeah, the problem is the wide names.fetcheveryone1:49pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Getting used to it, and much easier to read on my phone. Thing I'm struggling to get used to is the writing in the 'posts you're watching' box, the thread titles don't stand out enough. Could they be a different colour to the rest of the box, maybe yellow? (I have Somer skin so I don't know if that affects it)Meglet5:58pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Like it, good layout.Flatlander6:44pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Like itLazyDaisy8:19pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Thumbs up from me!westmoors8:58pm, 19th Jun 2014
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Just realised - I must have been on 'Somer'. Now on 'Default' and looks nicerererMcGoohan9:00pm, 19th Jun 2014
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I'll have a day on the skins soon.fetcheveryone10:01pm, 19th Jun 2014
Following yesterday's updates, and the comments received (see below), I've made some further changes - hopefully for the good.
There used to be two columns over there ---------->
but I've squished them into one, which means that the blogs get more space (about an extra 185 pixels - that's nearly an arm full).
The comments box now gets bigger as you type, so you can shoot your mouths off all you like
Rather than sending people to the user settings page to adjust the visibility of the blog, there's a little drop down on your own blog now that will do it automatically for you. Please can someone check this is working?
That's about it as far as all the visible stuff goes.
I'm tempted to 'hide' very long lists of comments - maybe showing only the most recent few, but with an option to expand to see the full list. Drop me a comment and let me know (a) what you think of that idea, and (b) if you think things are moving in the right direction with today's changes, and (c) any other blog-related stuff you'd like to talk about. Let's meta-blog people!
EDIT: Oh yeah - and the 'highlight this blog' bell is now in the title bar.
There used to be two columns over there ---------->
but I've squished them into one, which means that the blogs get more space (about an extra 185 pixels - that's nearly an arm full).
The comments box now gets bigger as you type, so you can shoot your mouths off all you like
Rather than sending people to the user settings page to adjust the visibility of the blog, there's a little drop down on your own blog now that will do it automatically for you. Please can someone check this is working?
That's about it as far as all the visible stuff goes.
I'm tempted to 'hide' very long lists of comments - maybe showing only the most recent few, but with an option to expand to see the full list. Drop me a comment and let me know (a) what you think of that idea, and (b) if you think things are moving in the right direction with today's changes, and (c) any other blog-related stuff you'd like to talk about. Let's meta-blog people!
EDIT: Oh yeah - and the 'highlight this blog' bell is now in the title bar.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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I didn't comment yesterday but agreed with comments such as McGs. This layout is much better now. I haven't tried viewing it on my tablet yet but I'm sure it'll be much better.alpenrose11:25am, 17th Jun 2014
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Cool, I've just rung your bell!Angus Clydesdale11:27am, 17th Jun 2014
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Oh, and this is much better for reading on a blackberry phone, now the blog's wider.Angus Clydesdale11:28am, 17th Jun 2014
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You can ring my beh-eh-ell, ring my bell.McGoohan11:28am, 17th Jun 2014
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Ah, so that's where the "like this blog" bit went! Much neater and easier on the eyes.Alice the Camel11:28am, 17th Jun 2014
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Looks superMcGoohan11:29am, 17th Jun 2014
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Leave the whole list of comments pleaseeL Bee!
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McG - that song has been going round in my head since I moved the bell toofetcheveryone11:36am, 17th Jun 2014
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Looks good:). Just noticed that we have an "add this blog to your favourites" button even if the blog is already one of my faviourites. Should it switch to being an option to remove blog from favourites if it is currently a favourite?ThorntonRunner11:43am, 17th Jun 2014
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Ocelot Spleens
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I thoughtOcelot Spleens was new for a econd. I shall write a blog forthwith.11:50am, 17th Jun 2014
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I second the idea of notifications after people comment on a blog you comment on.VicksterH
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keep all the comments, please.ChrisHB11:57am, 17th Jun 2014
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yay, love it!fleecy12:24pm, 17th Jun 2014
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er, the green box thingies over on the right are a bit odd though, the colour isn't consistent with the other stuff is it?fleecy
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It just gets better and betterer!Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Oh, and keep all comments in view please 12:31pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I likes itElsie Too
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I can't wait to see what it looks like on my tablet when I get home.:)Garfield12:51pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Thanks everyone. Elsie - I'd forgotten about that, ta. Fleecy - green boxes?fetcheveryone1:30pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Leave all the comments, but a comment count or notifications would be good if there's a discussion going.Meglet1:36pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I also notice that links, eg names of the commenters, are blue now, even though I use a skin (Somer I think) and they're usually red.Meglet1:38pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I think. Something's different about the colour anyway. Though I don't actually mind.Meglet1:39pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Wider = betterDvorak A "number of comments" box beside the blog list might be a bit depressing for those without any. Then again, people may read blogs they might have passed over to see if they can leave a comment Something that would indicate "new comments since you commented" would be good though, and/or something that flagged blogs which you had left a comment on. I'd like a "see more blogs" as well so you could go back three days, say, on the blog list.1:54pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Wider is good - either that or my marathon long blogs will have to become 10ksMaking_Tracks1:57pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Wider is better, especially on phone screen. I would also like the option to look over the last few days' worth of blogs because sometimes I want to re-read or see if someone's commented and if you can't remember whose blog it was you can't find it again.Carpathius2:00pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Much better. I would put the time under the date and as more space would be needed possibly change the lozenge to just a red section at the end of the black stripe. I would shift views and comments to the right and make the title a couple of point sizes bigger. Not bolder though. In fact if there's a condensed style I might use that...Sharkie2:08pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Hmm, IF you did make the title bar black with a red section at the end you could also join the black and red boxes far right together (no white space between) gaining a bit of space and making the top section hang together stylistically. On the other hand none of this might look right because of the rounded corners... I'm getting carried away.Sharkie2:18pm, 17th Jun 2014
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If you do make it an option to hide comments, please don't make it the default.Diogenes4:58pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I haven't seen one vote for it yet, so I think I'm scrapping the idea of hiding bigger lists.fetcheveryone4:59pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I don't really have a preference about the comments list. I like the changes to the layout though.Ness5:15pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I like - and another vote for not hiding commentsnorthernslowcoach6:34pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Plus one for a comments count, otherwise - awesomeHellsBells6:56pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I would love to be able to "like" a blog, as sometimes, I just want someone to know I enjoyed what they's written without needing to actually comment. Sorry if that seems a bit facebookesque.....twinny8:05pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Another for not hiding the comments, and for notifications when there are further comments on a blog that you've already commented on. Not sure about a comments count since a low count could lead to an otherwise interesting blog not being read. Similarly, the blog title bar "highlight" button could mean that someone highlights a blog because they like the person writing it rather than because of the blog - the previous system of "featured blogs" presumably worked on a function of the number of views together with the number of comments, which seemed more evenhanded and less susceptible to bias.Flatlander8:08pm, 17th Jun 2014
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There's a comments count at the top of each blog. Has been for years.fetcheveryone8:50pm, 17th Jun 2014
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The highlights system is based on the number of unique commenters, with the highlight button acting as a 'silent' comment.fetcheveryone9:10pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Fetch - Yes, I know there's a counter on the top of individual blog - I'd just quite like the option of one on the Blog List - and some kind of notification if someone else has commented on a blog I've commented on, or on my favourite blogs - to save trawling through everyone each time to see if there is anything new.eL Bee!
It would also reduce traffic because at the moment I HAVE to look at ALL the blogs (on those days when there are lots of interesting ones that I've commented on) rather than being able to see which ones have had some action9:36pm, 17th Jun 2014 -
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I do hope there aren't too many Fetchies in my "real life" customer base, you're setting far too high a standard in terms of user feedback and development rework!9:47pm, 17th Jun 2014 -
There are too many comments on this blog, isn't there a way to collapse them? chop-chop!Diogenes11:02pm, 17th Jun 2014
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I liked it a bit yesterday (the neat, slick, fetch-like look), and I like it a whole lot more today. Turning the two columns into one and making the blog wider and more important is great. The "highlight" bell is good - nice use of space. The comment box that grows as needed is great too. Thank you!Jenelopy11:03pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Yahoo! I want to just type for the sake of typing but I don't know what to type 'cos I am so darn tired......which means i just need to go to bed......good night and thank you for doing stuff that makes this site eggciting.....Has Easter come yet?run free11:40pm, 17th Jun 2014
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Looks better on my tablet wider and single side column. I have no preference re the comments.Lalli6:44am, 18th Jun 2014
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Keep all the comments showing pleaseBaronessBL7:36am, 18th Jun 2014
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I like the new layout, the font is great. One day (I know it's hard) can I have some rich text tools and the ability to link another user in my blog or comments? I'd like to write "fetcheveryone" in my comments and know that you'd get more than a burning sensation in your ears and wonder who is talking about youMaking_Tracks10:34am, 18th Jun 2014
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Can we be paid in cake for feedback?Watford Wobble8:12pm, 18th Jun 2014
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What affects the blog or forum post fitting in the screen when read? Having to scroll sideways as well as down sometimes now...SPR10:21pm, 24th Jun 2014
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This one doesn't reflow as expected.SPR10:23pm, 24th Jun 2014
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This one doesn't reflow as expected.SPR10:24pm, 24th Jun 2014
If you're reading this, and if you're an avid blog reader, you've probably noticed that the layout of the blogs have changed a bit
Aside from pushing a few boxes round the place, and ditching a bit of junk, I've also made the font a bit bigger on the main text - I think it reads nicer.
One of the ongoing sub-projects that I'm pushing on with is to convert all the major pages of the site to use a consistent set of styles - so you'll see the little panels (currently red, black, grey and yellow) cropping up increasingly. That consistency means that I can get the different site skins working nicely), and I'm working towards a responsive design i.e. pages that will rejig themselves appropriately when you view them on different devices.
I've also been preparing the leaderboards for the checkpoints - they are looking pretty good, but I want to pull in a few weeks more data, and really kick the crap out of the tyres before I put them live.
Anyhow... in other news I have my new glasses, and they're very nice.
Tatty bye.
Aside from pushing a few boxes round the place, and ditching a bit of junk, I've also made the font a bit bigger on the main text - I think it reads nicer.
One of the ongoing sub-projects that I'm pushing on with is to convert all the major pages of the site to use a consistent set of styles - so you'll see the little panels (currently red, black, grey and yellow) cropping up increasingly. That consistency means that I can get the different site skins working nicely), and I'm working towards a responsive design i.e. pages that will rejig themselves appropriately when you view them on different devices.
I've also been preparing the leaderboards for the checkpoints - they are looking pretty good, but I want to pull in a few weeks more data, and really kick the crap out of the tyres before I put them live.
Anyhow... in other news I have my new glasses, and they're very nice.
Tatty bye.
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Looking very smart. Blog layout and, I'm assuming, your new glasses too!swittle5:48pm, 16th Jun 2014
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It does look very neat and elegant. I like itVelociraptor5:53pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I was looking at Garfields just now very stylishNight-owl6:02pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Very stylish.Ness6:07pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Much better, when I opened blogs before I got some red fetch lettering diagonally on the page which then faded, used to do my head in a bit, looks like that's gone so thanks!Lemon106:18pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I likeIrontubs6:28pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Ooh, like itMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Thanks!6:59pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I like it. One thing that could be nicer is when you put a long comment the box doesn't get any bigger so its hard to see what you started saying when you waffle on a bit much, could be a cunning way to stop me waffling!Elsie Too7:22pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I like it.B.7:32pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Responsive web sounds good. Stumbled on this the other day:http://designmodo.com/responsive-design-examples/ Noticed tge Telefonica site working well that way today too. iPlayer Radio also.Keefy Beefy7:36pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I like the new blog layoutsallykate8:08pm, 16th Jun 2014
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It's a qualified 'like' from me. However, as the font is bigger the blog gets stretched down the page a bit: a slightly wider page wouldn't go amiss. Ditto the comments, as per ElsieMcGoohan8:38pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Qualified from me too. I like the page layout - but find the blog measure too narrow especially with the bigger font and justifed type. Looks very 'messagey' to me. Ok for very short blogs, but as McG implies can go on scrolling down for ever down on longer ones. Makes me think of galleys (I'm that old!)Sharkie8:47pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Easier to read. I prefer it.Lalli8:50pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I like that you can now see the whole of the blogger's profileFizz :-)8:59pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Can the 'Useful stuff' and 'Archived posts' boxes be shifted over to the right with the 'Blog Entries' bit (and Twitter if you must)? Otherwise there's a lot of white space in that column.McGoohan9:01pm, 16th Jun 2014
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Ah McGoohan has said exactly what I wanted to say. Seconded. But I like very much how clean and neat it looks.Duchess9:18pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I like the bigger text (furiously trying to ignore the fact that the day i need reading glasses is rapidly approaching ;))northernslowcoach9:22pm, 16th Jun 2014
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One other thing. I don't know if it's new code but the blog page takes 1-2 seconds to render (Safari on iPad), starting off with the blog column taking the whole page width before shrinking to size. And Roobarb's blog page is very unaligned - which might be caused by a comment a few blogs down disturbing the sizing? Minor details.Duchess9:30pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I'm sorry, I hate it. It makes the blog look like an unimportant detail squished into a tiny space! Can't you make the blog box bigger? The boxes on the right look huge in comparison. It does look neater and cleaner from a layout point of view, but from the point of view of the blog-reading bit it's dreadful. I like the title boxes though, very fetchifiedfleecy9:36pm, 16th Jun 2014
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I quite like it and have no particular strong feelings but side a little with McGoohanBaronessBL9:39pm, 16th Jun 2014
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btw, I won't be offended if you leave it as it is, I just thought I'd give you my honest opinionfleecy Having clicked on some other blogs I can sort of see that if you have a big ol essay of a profile then the box on the right seems less weird. However, my point about the blog box being too small still stands. I think it should dominate the page, and because it doesn't all the other stuff on the page looks quite distracting. I'll probably get used to it though 9:54pm, 16th Jun 2014
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What Fleecy saidCStar10:09pm, 16th Jun 2014
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What McGoohan said. too many boxes, the blog is a secondary item to the other boxes. thanks for all your work. must be a bit soul destroying to have everyone add their tuppence worthkatypie11:11pm, 16th Jun 2014
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...and add more dragons or a picture of a badgerMcGoohan12:02am, 17th Jun 2014
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I like it.Grid8:25am, 17th Jun 2014
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Hmm, Tuesday morning now - have you tweaked it again or am I deceived? Blog copy measure looks wider and therefore better now. Personally I would prefer the blog title a point size or two up, and/or bolder. But then the black bar would need to be deeper which would probably be too dominant on the page.Sharkie8:54am, 17th Jun 2014
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consistency rules, Good, I like the phrase "kick the crap out of the tyres", very good.Ocelot Spleens8:54am, 17th Jun 2014
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Yes, I've tweaked it. The two columns on the left have been merged into one, which means that the main column is now 185px wider.fetcheveryone8:56am, 17th Jun 2014
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That's mighty good work Mr F.McGoohan9:21am, 17th Jun 2014
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so it doesMcGoohan9:33am, 17th Jun 2014
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Well I like itjennywren10:13am, 17th Jun 2014
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I much prefer today's version to yesterday's. And dare I add, I prefer it without that yellow strip of "like this blog" across the bottom too!Alice the Camel11:25am, 17th Jun 2014
The boy was flat out by 9.30 last night, but strolled in to my room at a metronomic 7am as if he'd slept like a log. I was still awake past midnight watching the footie, so I was a bit fossilised, but he gave me my dressing gown like he was robing a king, and bowed me through the bedroom door.
He then proceeded to do me a lovely drawing in lieu of a card, and we snuggled up on the sofa for a bit. I made us pancakes, and he ate them like a dustbin.
We've discovered a way to upload maps to xbox minecraft, so he had a fun morning wandering around various amazing creations (Hogwarts, the Toy Story house, and so on).
I dragged him and the dog (and me) out to Bramcote Park. I've picked up a trick to ensure they both get some good exercise. There are two car parks - park in the one furthest from the ice cream van.
We had a lovely game of football, which also involved wearing out the dog. Our football is large enough that he can't get his jaws round it, and cheap enough that it wouldn't matter if he did. His tongue was a yard long by the time we reached the ice cream man, and the boy had sweaty hair
We took the long way back, up the hill into the trees, and had fun wandering about. He saw his first wood pecker There are a few shelters that have been built in the wood - racks of branches in igloo shapes - I couldn't decide whether they were made for fun or to house someone without a better option. We took a winding route over the hill, and eventually tumbled out of the bushes with muddy rears, surprising a couple of teenage boys who were clearly keen herbologists.
Lovely to get a cwch from my wife again this evening
New glasses tomorrow. The pair I'm currently wearing are so scratched it's like peering through tracing paper.
A shiny penny for the comment with the best dog-themed footballer name e.g. Didier Dogba.
He then proceeded to do me a lovely drawing in lieu of a card, and we snuggled up on the sofa for a bit. I made us pancakes, and he ate them like a dustbin.
We've discovered a way to upload maps to xbox minecraft, so he had a fun morning wandering around various amazing creations (Hogwarts, the Toy Story house, and so on).
I dragged him and the dog (and me) out to Bramcote Park. I've picked up a trick to ensure they both get some good exercise. There are two car parks - park in the one furthest from the ice cream van.
We had a lovely game of football, which also involved wearing out the dog. Our football is large enough that he can't get his jaws round it, and cheap enough that it wouldn't matter if he did. His tongue was a yard long by the time we reached the ice cream man, and the boy had sweaty hair
We took the long way back, up the hill into the trees, and had fun wandering about. He saw his first wood pecker
There are a few shelters that have been built in the wood - racks of branches in igloo shapes - I couldn't decide whether they were made for fun or to house someone without a better option. We took a winding route over the hill, and eventually tumbled out of the bushes with muddy rears, surprising a couple of teenage boys who were clearly keen herbologists. Lovely to get a cwch from my wife again this evening
New glasses tomorrow. The pair I'm currently wearing are so scratched it's like peering through tracing paper.
A shiny penny for the comment with the best dog-themed footballer name e.g. Didier Dogba.
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There's Didier's French cousin, Paul Dogba too. Hmm, off to look at World Cup squad lists...Dooogs10:07pm, 15th Jun 2014
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WW suggests Glen Poodle . .Fizz :-)10:13pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Or Gary Labrador, he never got a red card, doncha know.Fizz :-)10:15pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Norwich's Ricky van Woofswinkle.Ronners10:15pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Spaniel Sturridge.Ronners10:19pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Spaniel Sturridge is excellent.Dooogs
Other options: St Bernard (Brazil), Mario Yelpes (Colombia). Wrong sport but Lassie Malinga is my favourite so far...10:24pm, 15th Jun 2014 -
Danny Shih tzuHowFar?10:26pm, 15th Jun 2014
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John TerrierHowFar?10:28pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Stan ColliemoreHowFar?10:28pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Apparently there's a breed called Petit Basset Griffon Vandéen, which sounds like it could be a jinky winger from Luxembourg.HowFar?10:31pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Liverpool legend Kenny Dogleash.Ronners10:36pm, 15th Jun 2014
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Emile HuskyWaveydavey
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Peter Schmiechel ............ the Great Danebigleggy12:42pm, 16th Jun 2014
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The teens were probably mycologists, rather than herbologists? I don't do football. In rugby Jonathan Davies was a wee Welsh Terrier?HappyG(rrr) G4:16pm, 16th Jun 2014
Woke up at 5 and 6am this morning, to the delightful tune of the man from a few doors down, rearranging the phlegm in his smokers lungs over his first two cigarettes of the day. He makes that delightful snort-percolate noise repeatedly. I lay in bed mentally writing the anonymous letter that I was imagining sticking through his letterbox.
As well as that, I had a bit of a headache, of surprising magnitude, given that I'd only had a few ales the previous night. In actuality, it was two glasses of wine, but the wine came from Lidl, and it cost £3.99. On the up-side, there's still plenty left.
With the boy off at cub camp, I got myself together to get to Beeston parkrun. I was mainly feeling like there was *no way* that I'd go for it, but felt obliged to go, as I'd chuntered on about it in my blog, and talked it up last Saturday. In the end, I got there with about three minutes to go before the start, and that with a few hundred metres jogging (there's my warm up, see). I recognised quite a few Long Eaton RC members, but it was Rollerman that popped up next to me on the start, and it was nice to have some friendly banter.
It was nice to do a different course, having spent so much of my parkrun life at Bedford. It's a bit gravelly and pitted in places, but it's a nice solid path, and I think I avoided most of the bottlenecking by starting fairly close to the front. I went off like shit off a shovel, but Rollerman reeled me in around 1k. He was aiming for sub-22, so my plan was then to keep him close in sight.
By about 3k I'd just about caught him, and we traded grunts for another few minutes. The course is a bit of a tease, as you run through the finish line at around 2 miles, then on for another half a mile, up a five yard leg-killing slope, then round a U-turn, before heading back to the finish. Rollerman skinned me in the last half km, getting his sub-22 and I came home in 22:03, taking 36s off my previous best time at Bedford the previous week. I think the course is mentally easier - no laps, and less climb - worth a look
7.01, 7.06, 7.11
Next up I took a drive over to Trent Lock to see how my boy was doing. Unfortunately he gave me a sideways thumbs up, which means "so-so". I got to see him paddling around with the other boys in their canoes - and it looked like fun, but when he got back to the bank (on the far side of the river), he mouthed 'home' to me, and it was clear what he wanted.
I cadged a lift across the river, and had a chat with him. He was in a tent with eight other boys, and claimed that he'd had about 20 seconds sleep all night. One of the boys had been entertaining / irritating them all with some midnight pole dancing (naked) in the middle of the tent. I tried to encourage my boy to stick it out a bit longer, and to enjoy the activities, but he was keen to get out of there. Opening the tent flap, I could see why. All the kids had to bring quite a bit of kit with them, but it looked like most of them had emptied their bags inside the tent - you couldn't see the floor. Underneath it all, I think my boy was just a bit homesick, and I had no qualms about taking him home.
We've walked the dog, played with some fabulous new lego, watched a bit of footie, and done some drawings (see the pole dancing incident on Twitter), along with the usual xboxing. He asked me to make some suggestions for the next book I read to him, so I pulled six books off the shelf - and I'm pretty pleased that he's chosen Danny the Champion of the World
Right then. See ya.
As well as that, I had a bit of a headache, of surprising magnitude, given that I'd only had a few ales the previous night. In actuality, it was two glasses of wine, but the wine came from Lidl, and it cost £3.99. On the up-side, there's still plenty left.
With the boy off at cub camp, I got myself together to get to Beeston parkrun. I was mainly feeling like there was *no way* that I'd go for it, but felt obliged to go, as I'd chuntered on about it in my blog, and talked it up last Saturday. In the end, I got there with about three minutes to go before the start, and that with a few hundred metres jogging (there's my warm up, see). I recognised quite a few Long Eaton RC members, but it was Rollerman that popped up next to me on the start, and it was nice to have some friendly banter.
It was nice to do a different course, having spent so much of my parkrun life at Bedford. It's a bit gravelly and pitted in places, but it's a nice solid path, and I think I avoided most of the bottlenecking by starting fairly close to the front. I went off like shit off a shovel, but Rollerman reeled me in around 1k. He was aiming for sub-22, so my plan was then to keep him close in sight.
By about 3k I'd just about caught him, and we traded grunts for another few minutes. The course is a bit of a tease, as you run through the finish line at around 2 miles, then on for another half a mile, up a five yard leg-killing slope, then round a U-turn, before heading back to the finish. Rollerman skinned me in the last half km, getting his sub-22
and I came home in 22:03, taking 36s off my previous best time at Bedford the previous week. I think the course is mentally easier - no laps, and less climb - worth a look 7.01, 7.06, 7.11
Next up I took a drive over to Trent Lock to see how my boy was doing. Unfortunately he gave me a sideways thumbs up, which means "so-so". I got to see him paddling around with the other boys in their canoes - and it looked like fun, but when he got back to the bank (on the far side of the river), he mouthed 'home' to me, and it was clear what he wanted.
I cadged a lift across the river, and had a chat with him. He was in a tent with eight other boys, and claimed that he'd had about 20 seconds sleep all night. One of the boys had been entertaining / irritating them all with some midnight pole dancing (naked) in the middle of the tent. I tried to encourage my boy to stick it out a bit longer, and to enjoy the activities, but he was keen to get out of there. Opening the tent flap, I could see why. All the kids had to bring quite a bit of kit with them, but it looked like most of them had emptied their bags inside the tent - you couldn't see the floor. Underneath it all, I think my boy was just a bit homesick, and I had no qualms about taking him home.
We've walked the dog, played with some fabulous new lego, watched a bit of footie, and done some drawings (see the pole dancing incident on Twitter), along with the usual xboxing. He asked me to make some suggestions for the next book I read to him, so I pulled six books off the shelf - and I'm pretty pleased that he's chosen Danny the Champion of the World
Right then. See ya.
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Well done on the PBGimmeMedals
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there's my warm up, see). .... I read that in a Welsh accentD210:33pm, 14th Jun 2014
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I'm sort of sorry the boy didn't enjoy campWatford Wobble But well on you and the huffing and puffing.10:33pm, 14th Jun 2014
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If you're not enjoying something its best to leave I think. I do that a lot. Danny Champion of the World is ace.jennywren3:28pm, 15th Jun 2014
A teary moment this evening, watching my boy being piloted away to camp - him waving, and looking, me waving, and looking (but with a little bit of dust in my eye). It reminds me of that scene from AI where the robot boy stares at the motherly face of the mermaid for millenia (sp?) - that always gets me.
Footballers are lame, yes? Watch some of the slo-mo footage of the 'fouls' from tonights Spain-Netherlands match, and you see just how theatrical the game now is. Not denying the fabulous skill on show as they illustrate their mastery of the bladder - but really, how much better could the game be without all the pantomime acting. I did like the slow-mo shots of their angry faces though.
Hoping to do Beeston parkrun in the morning.
Footballers are lame, yes? Watch some of the slo-mo footage of the 'fouls' from tonights Spain-Netherlands match, and you see just how theatrical the game now is. Not denying the fabulous skill on show as they illustrate their mastery of the bladder - but really, how much better could the game be without all the pantomime acting. I did like the slow-mo shots of their angry faces though.
Hoping to do Beeston parkrun in the morning.
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Hope boy enjoys camp - try not to worryD210:40pm, 13th Jun 2014
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I am sure he will have funMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Get fairly close to the start if you want a good run, fairly flat course which could be fast as long as you don't get held up on the narrow tack, enjoy!10:53pm, 13th Jun 2014
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Camp is awesome for kids. Tougher for dads! Your boy is growing up. It's a wonderful thing. ((( )))HappyG(rrr) G10:01am, 14th Jun 2014
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I don't watch football...not even remotely interested in it...actually, I should say soccer!;) Football to me is a completely different sport. Hope you had a good parkrun today!Garfield12:02pm, 14th Jun 2014
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Very lame. They should bring in post match suspensions for play acting. Especially in the big tournaments with so much tv coverage. Hop eyou had a good parkrun.Nightjar2:10pm, 14th Jun 2014
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It's toughest for those left behind. The boy will be just fine.Watford Wobble8:13pm, 14th Jun 2014
Today was school sports day - the first time they've had one outside of the playground - so it all felt a bit more grown up and serious. My boy was in three events, and he came first in the wheelbarrow He was well-paired with a wiry boy as his barrow, and they shot away from the rest of the field. Not so much luck in the 60m sprint though - he was last - but not by much. In the final relay he did very well running the first leg, gaining a bit of an advantage, but then the baton change went a bit wrong, and we'll say no more about that
He was knackered by home time, so we've had a lazy evening, culminating in me reading him the final bits of The Deathly Hallows. We normally have about 20 mins of reading, and then he reads one of his books to himself - but because we were so close to the end, and things were so exciting, I ended up reading for about 1hr20. I only nearly cried about three times, and only caught myself yelling about eight times.
It's a bit of an era-ending moment for us, as I started reading The Philosopher's Stone to him at the start of 2012. I've suggested that he might like to start at the beginning again, but read them himself this time. Not sure where we'll go next in terms of me reading to him - he mentioned Lord of the Rings a while ago, but I find it a bit meh. Suggestions welcome
He was well-paired with a wiry boy as his barrow, and they shot away from the rest of the field. Not so much luck in the 60m sprint though - he was last - but not by much. In the final relay he did very well running the first leg, gaining a bit of an advantage, but then the baton change went a bit wrong, and we'll say no more about that He was knackered by home time, so we've had a lazy evening, culminating in me reading him the final bits of The Deathly Hallows. We normally have about 20 mins of reading, and then he reads one of his books to himself - but because we were so close to the end, and things were so exciting, I ended up reading for about 1hr20. I only nearly cried about three times, and only caught myself yelling about eight times.
It's a bit of an era-ending moment for us, as I started reading The Philosopher's Stone to him at the start of 2012. I've suggested that he might like to start at the beginning again, but read them himself this time. Not sure where we'll go next in terms of me reading to him - he mentioned Lord of the Rings a while ago, but I find it a bit meh. Suggestions welcome
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His Dark Materials? (Maybe a bit old actually...) Lemony Snicket? They're a lot of fun.McGoohan10:35pm, 12th Jun 2014
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LOTR meh?!.B. maybe give it another try 10:39pm, 12th Jun 2014
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Hobbit?fleecy
Narnia books (I read them all to ds1 when he was about 3 but when I tried with ds2 when he was about 6 he wriggled, I think skip the first one and go straight to the Lion)
Little House on the Prairie books, I read them to ds2 when he was about 7 or 8, we really, really enjoyed them and he was riveted throughout. They may sound a bit girly but they're not, they are great yarns, all about survival and Pa building houses by hand.10:41pm, 12th Jun 2014 -
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Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
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Simon Mayo's Itch books are rather good. We also read Inkheart and Northern Lights to LMG whuch we all enjoyed.Girlie6:59am, 13th Jun 2014
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I think it's great that you've read them all. I remember listening to them all while running many years ago, specifically thanks to you too.RuthB28:11am, 13th Jun 2014
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Terry Pratchet disk world series. I can lend them to you if you want. They would keep you going for years and years and years there are so many of them.Elsie Too8:21am, 13th Jun 2014
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Deffo should start with The Hobbit - it's a children's book after all, and a great introduction to LOTR. Dark Materials should also be on the list, but perhaps when a bit older.Hendo9:01am, 13th Jun 2014
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Inkheart is good (plus sequel), the Divide Trilogy by Elizabeth Kay was popular too.Autumnleaves2:37pm, 13th Jun 2014
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Magyk series by Angie SageHellsBells3:02pm, 13th Jun 2014
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there are 3 disc world books written especially for children, Wee Free Men, A hat full of sky and the Winter Smith, but I bet your lad would prefer the artimis fowl series, Fairies in hob nail boots with Kalashnikovs, or the MORT series of Disc world books.snogard4:07pm, 13th Jun 2014
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The Hobbit.Meglet4:15pm, 13th Jun 2014
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I am David was one of my favourite books as a kid - also loved the little prince - which I couldn't read aloud to my kids as it always makes me crycolettedeann5:16pm, 13th Jun 2014
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Susan Cooper's series that starts with Over Sea, under Stone?JenL5:17pm, 13th Jun 2014
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[agree about inkheart with above suggestion as kid and enjoyed it ]colettedeann5:17pm, 13th Jun 2014
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Wolves of Willoughby Chase seriesfleecy
Ds1 loved the Artemis Fowl books and the Alex Rider books but I think they might be better when he's a bit older. I just remembered some he also loved which are really funny and you might enjoy reading together: The Diamond Brothers books (also by Anthony Horowitz), full of puns and silly jokes.8:08pm, 13th Jun 2014
We've just watched Air Force One, with Harrison Ford. It was very cheesy, in a patriotic US sort of way (Cut the wire! Which colour? You can always bet on Red White and Blue, cut the yellow one! Etc.). But it was goodly awful.
A lollipop three with Katie and the dog this morning, then a day of plugging away at the Checkpoint code, building the leaderboards and so on.
Tomorrow I get to see my boy at sports day! He's doing the 60m sprint, a relay, and the wheelbarrow race (he's the barrower). I'll be doing grinning.
A lollipop three with Katie and the dog this morning, then a day of plugging away at the Checkpoint code, building the leaderboards and so on.
Tomorrow I get to see my boy at sports day! He's doing the 60m sprint, a relay, and the wheelbarrow race (he's the barrower). I'll be doing grinning.
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And taking part in the Dads' race?BaronessBL10:39pm, 11th Jun 2014
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I remember that filmNight-owl10:48pm, 11th Jun 2014
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enjoy sports day!D210:55pm, 11th Jun 2014
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Have fun at sports day!Lalli7:02am, 12th Jun 2014
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What's a lollipop three??SarahWoo9:42am, 12th Jun 2014
I've made some good progress with my code today
For the last week or so I've been fudging around with route data, trying to make sense of how we can bring it all together in one massive funchunk. For now at least, I've settled on a system that is generating little dots all over the map, based on all your running data. Big data. I think that's what they call it.
The little dots are all at least half a mile away from their nearest neighbour, and the idea is that you can run as fast as you can from one to the next, and try to beat your own times, or those of your friends, if you like that sort of thing. I'm already looking forward to my first speed session designed specifically around checkpoints
So long as you put in the right category when you add your training, it should be capable of making different leaderboards for running and biking. Hooray for that Bikers will be very helpful, with their high mileage, spreading marker trails far and wide for the rest of us to follow.
And because each checkpoint effectively blocks any others within a half mile radius, it's important to run all your favourite local routes as soon as you can - otherwise someone else will decide where the checkpoints go. As has been pointed out on Facebook, if you like running off-road, get your checkpoints in now, before a cyclist comes along and puts them all on the road next to your favourite bit of field.
So here's the map as it stands:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-checkpoints.php
You don't need to do anything unusual, just log your runs in the training log (unfortunately it won't work if you manually plot your routes, because it needs to know how fast you're going from place to place too), and it'll take care of the rest.
I hope to have some leaderboards and some useful notifications in place soon, but for now, it's all about the land grab.
For the last week or so I've been fudging around with route data, trying to make sense of how we can bring it all together in one massive funchunk. For now at least, I've settled on a system that is generating little dots all over the map, based on all your running data. Big data. I think that's what they call it.
The little dots are all at least half a mile away from their nearest neighbour, and the idea is that you can run as fast as you can from one to the next, and try to beat your own times, or those of your friends, if you like that sort of thing. I'm already looking forward to my first speed session designed specifically around checkpoints
So long as you put in the right category when you add your training, it should be capable of making different leaderboards for running and biking. Hooray for that
Bikers will be very helpful, with their high mileage, spreading marker trails far and wide for the rest of us to follow. And because each checkpoint effectively blocks any others within a half mile radius, it's important to run all your favourite local routes as soon as you can - otherwise someone else will decide where the checkpoints go. As has been pointed out on Facebook, if you like running off-road, get your checkpoints in now, before a cyclist comes along and puts them all on the road next to your favourite bit of field.
So here's the map as it stands:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-checkpoints.php
You don't need to do anything unusual, just log your runs in the training log (unfortunately it won't work if you manually plot your routes, because it needs to know how fast you're going from place to place too), and it'll take care of the rest.
I hope to have some leaderboards and some useful notifications in place soon, but for now, it's all about the land grab.
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Oooh this looks excitingNight-owl6:23pm, 10th Jun 2014
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*oo-er... fear of the new*McGoohan7:37pm, 10th Jun 2014
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You really are trying to get me to buy a gps, aren't you?Diogenes9:21pm, 10th Jun 2014
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not for FIT filesOcelot Spleens10:01am, 11th Jun 2014
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Why not for FIT files? Should be fine.fetcheveryone10:03am, 11th Jun 2014
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ooh, ok, I shall checkOcelot Spleens10:08am, 11th Jun 2014
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There's a queue system in place, so that it might take a few mins to build the checkpoints.fetcheveryone10:09am, 11th Jun 2014
I remember watching this episode when it first came on the telly - I was only 7 I think. I drew a picture of Vyvyan crashing through the wall in my 'News' book the following day. Very sad news today
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Especially shocking as he was so young.Alice the Camel6:16pm, 9th Jun 2014
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RIP Rik-x-x- 6:40pm, 9th Jun 2014
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"How can the people's poet be dead, when we still have his poems? "Diogenes6:49pm, 9th Jun 2014
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He's taken the last freedom moped out of Nowhere City; and he hasn't even told his parents what time he'll be back! Grew up laughing at this, and Bottom. RIP Rik.Angus Clydesdale7:05pm, 9th Jun 2014
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Sad.GimmeMedals7:12pm, 9th Jun 2014
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BaronessBL RIP Rik7:31pm, 9th Jun 2014
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RIP Alan B'stardSeratonin8:14pm, 9th Jun 2014
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Shocked , my generationoldbiddy8:45pm, 9th Jun 2014
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McGoohan Bye Rik9:15pm, 9th Jun 2014
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Sad day. Definitely taken to soon.Argie9:59pm, 9th Jun 2014
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Ashamed to a misquotedDiogenes10:37pm, 9th Jun 2014
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I feel very sad.Hendo1:11am, 10th Jun 2014
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Hah! Missed both my legs!Ocelot Spleens8:38am, 10th Jun 2014
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I was a student in a northern Poly at the same time, there were so many "Riks", he had it spot on. RIP and thanks for all the laughter.Non-runner12:59pm, 10th Jun 2014
Knackered
We ran eight miles in the warm weather this morning, going down route 51 then over the fields to a little village called Cople. Katie had heard that the church we'd run past had a tap for drinking water outside, so we were looking forward to stopping for a drink. But before we got there, we ran into someone she knows, and they very kindly have us a drink, and also, straight out of left field, a jar of honey. So we ran nearly four miles clutching it, swapping every mile. I was hallucinating about eating it by the time we got home, and it was bloody nice.
8 miles done, 22 for the week, and 394 for the year, nearly 90 up on the same point last year. Good
We watched the end of Insomnia (Al Pacino), and then a film called The Experiment, in which men were asked to play the roles of guards and prisoners - very brutal :-/
I've had three glasses of wine and a gin and tonic, and that's just about seen me off.
We ran eight miles in the warm weather this morning, going down route 51 then over the fields to a little village called Cople. Katie had heard that the church we'd run past had a tap for drinking water outside, so we were looking forward to stopping for a drink. But before we got there, we ran into someone she knows, and they very kindly have us a drink, and also, straight out of left field, a jar of honey. So we ran nearly four miles clutching it, swapping every mile. I was hallucinating about eating it by the time we got home, and it was bloody nice.
8 miles done, 22 for the week, and 394 for the year, nearly 90 up on the same point last year. Good
We watched the end of Insomnia (Al Pacino), and then a film called The Experiment, in which men were asked to play the roles of guards and prisoners - very brutal :-/
I've had three glasses of wine and a gin and tonic, and that's just about seen me off.
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I'm impressed by your lucidity!D29:27pm, 8th Jun 2014
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Water at the church in Cople is very useful information, thanksRosehip
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Zimbardo's Stanford experiment - strong stuffswittle11:20pm, 8th Jun 2014
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Wow, I'd be unconscious on that!Lalli6:54am, 9th Jun 2014
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3 glasses of vino and afleecy
and I'd have one very slurry blog with LOTS of typos!8:30am, 9th Jun 2014
Today's been great.
Forgot to prep my watch at parkrun this morning, so it didn't time the whole thing. Got to the finish with me showing 2.8 miles at 7:08 pace, but my overall time was 22:41, a smidge outside my SB. Felt more comfortable than the previous attempt by some way. I've got a rare chance to do Beeston parkrun next weekend, so an improvement is on the cards, all being well. Must remember to prep my watch, warm up, and start a bit closer to the front.
Next, some tea and coffee at Fancy, playing petrol tankers with B
Then, a dog walk along the embankment, through the schools regatta (all cowering under tarpaulins), to give Littley his phone. He was balanced on a pontoon in the middle of the river, tasked with holding the boats at the start. Rumours that he fell in have been greatly enjoyed.
A bin covered in bees, a bit of a movie, and then out to go to a birthday party. There was some fabulous Indian food, and I'm pleased to say that we set the dance floor on FIRE! I think it must have been the Coke.
Hoping for a long run tomorrow.
As Fetchies, we've run nearly 25 million miles. I was prompted to look this up following an interesting tweet that pointed at the number of calories we've burned - so something like 2.5 billion - the point being, more or less, that it was equivalent to feeding X thousands of starving people. It made us wonder, as we tucked into our post-run cake, whether we could have a calorie-neutral week on Fetch. In other words, if you run 20 miles in a week, donate 20x100 calories of food to your local food bank. Do me a comment if you think that sounds like fun.
Forgot to prep my watch at parkrun this morning, so it didn't time the whole thing. Got to the finish with me showing 2.8 miles at 7:08 pace, but my overall time was 22:41, a smidge outside my SB. Felt more comfortable than the previous attempt by some way. I've got a rare chance to do Beeston parkrun next weekend, so an improvement is on the cards, all being well. Must remember to prep my watch, warm up, and start a bit closer to the front.
Next, some tea and coffee at Fancy, playing petrol tankers with B
Then, a dog walk along the embankment, through the schools regatta (all cowering under tarpaulins), to give Littley his phone. He was balanced on a pontoon in the middle of the river, tasked with holding the boats at the start. Rumours that he fell in have been greatly enjoyed.
A bin covered in bees, a bit of a movie, and then out to go to a birthday party. There was some fabulous Indian food, and I'm pleased to say that we set the dance floor on FIRE! I think it must have been the Coke.
Hoping for a long run tomorrow.
As Fetchies, we've run nearly 25 million miles. I was prompted to look this up following an interesting tweet that pointed at the number of calories we've burned - so something like 2.5 billion - the point being, more or less, that it was equivalent to feeding X thousands of starving people. It made us wonder, as we tucked into our post-run cake, whether we could have a calorie-neutral week on Fetch. In other words, if you run 20 miles in a week, donate 20x100 calories of food to your local food bank. Do me a comment if you think that sounds like fun.
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It's like losing the calories twice! Great idea, i'd partake.Ronners12:01am, 8th Jun 2014
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That's a great ideaGimmeMedals7:15am, 8th Jun 2014
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Sounds like a good idea to me.Ness7:55am, 8th Jun 2014
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I do like that idea.*Anj*8:58am, 8th Jun 2014
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Good idea.Carpathius10:09am, 8th Jun 2014
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I like that idea.Calamity12:08pm, 8th Jun 2014
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Cool, I like a bit of charity excuse for running. Fetch Fez seems like such a long time ago.Angus Clydesdale2:44pm, 8th Jun 2014
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I like it tooAutumnleaves5:28pm, 8th Jun 2014
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Good ideanorthernslowcoach9:14pm, 8th Jun 2014
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sounds like a plan - i'd be up for itSpally12:36pm, 9th Jun 2014
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Like that idea very much.LindsD5:52pm, 9th Jun 2014
A fairly quick blog tonight, because I'm pooped.
Still having fun with routes. Rather than pumping in a whole load of checkpoints, and setting everything up, I thought it'd be cool to have a 'land grab'. In other words, to make sure the checkpoints end up on all *your* favourite street corners, you'll have to make sure you get in first. Might be a bit of fun.
Ferris Bueller is on E4 (thanks Ted). Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop once in a while, you could miss it. Ttfn.
Still having fun with routes. Rather than pumping in a whole load of checkpoints, and setting everything up, I thought it'd be cool to have a 'land grab'. In other words, to make sure the checkpoints end up on all *your* favourite street corners, you'll have to make sure you get in first. Might be a bit of fun.
Ferris Bueller is on E4 (thanks Ted). Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop once in a while, you could miss it. Ttfn.
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One of my favourite movie quotes of all time. Oh yeah!TheScribbler9:35pm, 6th Jun 2014
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First film I saw (I think) with a post-credits bitMcGoohan9:39pm, 6th Jun 2014
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Thanks, watching now on E4+1. I firsts watched it on a day off sick. Pray for DioDiogenes10:59pm, 6th Jun 2014
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Or do I mean "save Dio"?Diogenes11:00pm, 6th Jun 2014
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Inorthernslowcoach
that film 10:35pm, 7th Jun 2014
I did some more work today on 'route describing'. To save you reading back, I'm looking for an efficient way to describe a route, using as few unique points as possible. Doing so means that it takes less computing power to compare one route to another - which in turn opens up all sorts of possibilities, like automatically letting you know when you've run someone elses route; and building leaderboards, that sort of thing. I feel like I've said that lots now, so you can kick me if I say it again.
If you want to see it in action, go to your routes list:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-private.php
and look for the little target symbols that have popped up next to each one. You should see your original route (in red), with a bunch of map markers overlaid on top, and a green line connecting them. Hopefully, the markers are all helpfully guiding you around the key twists and turns of your route. It doesn't do anything more than that, it's just a demo. The rest of this blog is more geeky stuff about the fun I've been having.
(Also, my car broke down AGAIN today - it's a Ford Fiesta, and for some stupid reason, it's an automatic - only it's not just an automatic, it's a b*ll*xed automatic. AA Man, knowing smiles at the garage, f**k. Luckily I was close enough to school that I was able to run the last bit, and get the boy on time. I running.)
Anyway, back to the geeky stuff.
I'm really pleased with how the algorithm works. Rather than looking through the thousands of data points that your GPS records, and trying to work out which ones to throw away, it does it the other way round. It starts with a beginning point, and an end point, and then zips along your route, finding the ONE point in between that adds most distance to the straight line between beginning and end. It stores this point, and uses it to break the original route into two. The two sub-routes can then be fed back into the same algorithm, each breaking repeatedly into two smaller routes, until the 'deviation' becomes small enough to be irrelevant. Recursion is programming at its most beautiful
Then it gets a bit ugly.
If I come back along the same bit of road, there's nothing in my algorithm that re-uses my checkpoints. Thanks to the roughness of GPS, it means that your route can have one set of checkpoints going in one direction, and a different set coming back in the other. Fortunately, in practice, the points all collect at the corners - so they tend to be quite closely bunched. As a result, it's possible to check all the outputted points for proximity to each other - and then re-use the outbound points to describe the return journey.
You can also reduce your point list a little bit more by keeping GPS accuracy in mind. Lots of them record position data to a ridiculous number of decimal places e.g. "latitude = 52.87469873" - but the reality is that even when they're performing well, they can only place you within a 10m radius. A bit of gentle rounding will snap together the closer points.
This works well for one route, and is all covered in the demo links on your routes list.
The next step was to store these checkpoints in the database, and to branch out to other routes, to see if the checkpoints were universal and useful to other routes. It didn't quite work out that way unfortunately. After storing checkpoints for several routes, then viewing them all on the map at the same time, I found that there were lots that were very close together.
I updated the storage code, so that it would only store checkpoints that were a sufficient distance apart from each other.
The question then is, what is a sufficient distance apart? I could make them very close e.g. 50m, and then we could perhaps describe just about any route. But we'd also have a shitload of markers. Britain is 229,848 km^2, which means that if our markers were a minimum of 50m apart, we could end up with at least 91 million of them (I've had lager, so the numbers might be off), once you've run everywhere. And you will. I don't fancy seeing the page speed after that's happened.
So I'm trying a minimum distance of 0.25 miles between checkpoints, which means a more manageable 1.4 million checkpoints, once you've run everywhere. Which you will It won't describe the intricacies of every route, but I hope there's sufficient room for fun in there.
The next step is to try pumping all our routes through this process, to let it generate a network of checkpoints across the map. If you see the lights dim on the site at some point tomorrow, you'll know I've given it a go. It's a bit of a goldrush. A checkpoint in one location means that there won't be another within 0.25 miles of it, so if your route gets in first, then the checkpoints will be on all *your* favourite corners.
If you're still reading, and still enjoying it, thank you for coming this far. I build stuff, you suggest stuff, I build stuff, you suggest stuff. Long may the recursion continue.
If you want to see it in action, go to your routes list:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-private.php
and look for the little target symbols that have popped up next to each one. You should see your original route (in red), with a bunch of map markers overlaid on top, and a green line connecting them. Hopefully, the markers are all helpfully guiding you around the key twists and turns of your route. It doesn't do anything more than that, it's just a demo. The rest of this blog is more geeky stuff about the fun I've been having.
(Also, my car broke down AGAIN today - it's a Ford Fiesta, and for some stupid reason, it's an automatic - only it's not just an automatic, it's a b*ll*xed automatic. AA Man, knowing smiles at the garage, f**k. Luckily I was close enough to school that I was able to run the last bit, and get the boy on time. I
running.) Anyway, back to the geeky stuff.
I'm really pleased with how the algorithm works. Rather than looking through the thousands of data points that your GPS records, and trying to work out which ones to throw away, it does it the other way round. It starts with a beginning point, and an end point, and then zips along your route, finding the ONE point in between that adds most distance to the straight line between beginning and end. It stores this point, and uses it to break the original route into two. The two sub-routes can then be fed back into the same algorithm, each breaking repeatedly into two smaller routes, until the 'deviation' becomes small enough to be irrelevant. Recursion is programming at its most beautiful
Then it gets a bit ugly.
If I come back along the same bit of road, there's nothing in my algorithm that re-uses my checkpoints. Thanks to the roughness of GPS, it means that your route can have one set of checkpoints going in one direction, and a different set coming back in the other. Fortunately, in practice, the points all collect at the corners - so they tend to be quite closely bunched. As a result, it's possible to check all the outputted points for proximity to each other - and then re-use the outbound points to describe the return journey.
You can also reduce your point list a little bit more by keeping GPS accuracy in mind. Lots of them record position data to a ridiculous number of decimal places e.g. "latitude = 52.87469873" - but the reality is that even when they're performing well, they can only place you within a 10m radius. A bit of gentle rounding will snap together the closer points.
This works well for one route, and is all covered in the demo links on your routes list.
The next step was to store these checkpoints in the database, and to branch out to other routes, to see if the checkpoints were universal and useful to other routes. It didn't quite work out that way unfortunately. After storing checkpoints for several routes, then viewing them all on the map at the same time, I found that there were lots that were very close together.
I updated the storage code, so that it would only store checkpoints that were a sufficient distance apart from each other.
The question then is, what is a sufficient distance apart? I could make them very close e.g. 50m, and then we could perhaps describe just about any route. But we'd also have a shitload of markers. Britain is 229,848 km^2, which means that if our markers were a minimum of 50m apart, we could end up with at least 91 million of them (I've had lager, so the numbers might be off), once you've run everywhere. And you will. I don't fancy seeing the page speed after that's happened.
So I'm trying a minimum distance of 0.25 miles between checkpoints, which means a more manageable 1.4 million checkpoints, once you've run everywhere. Which you will
It won't describe the intricacies of every route, but I hope there's sufficient room for fun in there. The next step is to try pumping all our routes through this process, to let it generate a network of checkpoints across the map. If you see the lights dim on the site at some point tomorrow, you'll know I've given it a go. It's a bit of a goldrush. A checkpoint in one location means that there won't be another within 0.25 miles of it, so if your route gets in first, then the checkpoints will be on all *your* favourite corners.
If you're still reading, and still enjoying it, thank you for coming this far. I build stuff, you suggest stuff, I build stuff, you suggest stuff. Long may the recursion continue.
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The lights dimmed in my house briefly whilst reading this, have you started the trial earlier :-DMsG11:50pm, 5th Jun 2014
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Are you at the "Beer good" stage? I'd be at the "Beer good" stage were I still a drinking man.RichHL12:25am, 6th Jun 2014
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Makes sense, even at 3:22amDiogenes3:22am, 6th Jun 2014
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Looking at my routes, it seems to straighten out some curves a lot. I'm not sure how significant this is in terms of distance loss, or whether I have just zoomed in too far. Would 0.125 of a mile be a step too far, or is the error insignificant? I'll think about it some more and maybe it will help my strange insomniaDiogenes3:34am, 6th Jun 2014
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Glad im running less but faster for you then! Having said that it's a five race week next week, so that'll keep your algorithms busy!Lalli7:16am, 6th Jun 2014
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It worked!Diogenes7:26am, 6th Jun 2014
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Algorithm looks good. Very good! I was trying to work out whether it needs to smooth more but on the whole I think you have it set to the right granularity. Looking at rid=1597545 it has a couple of points that could be removed. What I think could be happening is that when you have found your mid point, and recursed through each side segment there is a posibility that the next points on either side of the mid point end up forming a straight(ish) line. So after you have recursed each side you could check whether that midpoint is on a line between the 2 and delete it if so. Maybe,Nightjar8:57am, 6th Jun 2014
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Also had some recursion as, once I did get back to sleep, I dreamt I was still on the sofa thinking about algorithmsDiogenes9:05am, 6th Jun 2014
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Gosh, that's clever. Couple of observations: is there a way you can follow a road or path, if the original one did? Something about using the "use roads if there are any", seeing if the original route seemed to be on the road, then using that to identify corners etc. (otherwise routes go through loch, river, field etc.!). It's another whole load of comparisons, but your manual route plotting can "use roads" (don't know if that's through the Google Maps API that you use?). Second thing is errr... I've forgotten. Maybe it was just that it's cool. Could you sell (or offer for free - Open Source etc.) that algorithm to other sites for ways of "capturing / summarising a route"? Good work young padawan.HappyG(rrr) G10:09am, 6th Jun 2014
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Dio and H(G) - it's not so much about recreating the exact route - so in a way, the green lines are a bit misleading. It's about finding sufficient points on that route so that if someone ran through them all in the right order, they'd end up doing the same route as you.fetcheveryone10:13am, 6th Jun 2014
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What I need to know is, will the route length still be recorded as the actual route I ran, or will it be "snapped" onto the checkpoints? I don't know why I feel I need to know this... but I do.RevBarbaraG10:23am, 6th Jun 2014
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Rev - it doesn't change any distances, nor any of the data in your training log. It's just about establishing a network of useful checkpoints, so that we can compare training runs on a grand scale.fetcheveryone10:29am, 6th Jun 2014
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looks good, apart from what Nightjar said: looks like you may be getting 3 points in a line when working away from the first half-way point (see my route 1708108 for a fairly clear example - the 3 points at the bottom left which are about half way round) - should be a minor fix though, you just need to see if the 3 points include an angle too close to 180, then just eliminate the middle point - you could even do a post-process of the whole route as a tidy up just to be sure.DazTheSlug2:05pm, 6th Jun 2014
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oldbiddy4:59pm, 6th Jun 2014
Hopefully by now you'll have seen the daily route pictures that pop up every day on the home page - and if not, go and look.
To say thank you for all the awesome pics, I'll be picking one at the end of every month that will win an OS Explorer or Landranger map of the winner's choosing.
To be in with a chance of winning, add a picture to one of your routes, make it public, and also tick the box that says you're happy for it to be used on the home page. Here's a link to the routes page to get you started:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-public.php
And if you want to help your route stand out, use the Facebook SHARE buttons, and get your friends to 'Like' it. If you don't use Facebook, or don't have any friends, that's ok - if your picture is ace, I'll stick it on the home page - and at the end of the month, I might well choose a picture that no-one else likes, so it doesn't really matter. But let's be honest, it *would* be helpful to promote the site if you could do the social media thing, and if you're super popular, you could tell your friends that it's vital they spread the word - so please do it if you can.
What sort of pictures do I like?
Oh I don't know. Summat interesting. A path that curves off into nowhere is always good, but I also like statues; interesting rock formations; attractive composition; foreground detail; selfies; irony; character; pushing the boundaries, opening the envelope and running outside the box. I like rivers and high streets; real stuff happening; rusty stuff; closeups; motion blur; rainy days and Sundays.
Go on, give it a go. You don't have to take the picture whilst you're running (in fact, it's probably best if you at least stop - don't forget to pause your Garmin), and it doesn't have to be somewhere you run regularly - just build the route, take the picture, and you might inspire someone else to discoveries of their own.
Thanks.
To say thank you for all the awesome pics, I'll be picking one at the end of every month that will win an OS Explorer or Landranger map of the winner's choosing.
To be in with a chance of winning, add a picture to one of your routes, make it public, and also tick the box that says you're happy for it to be used on the home page. Here's a link to the routes page to get you started:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/routes-public.php
And if you want to help your route stand out, use the Facebook SHARE buttons, and get your friends to 'Like' it. If you don't use Facebook, or don't have any friends, that's ok - if your picture is ace, I'll stick it on the home page - and at the end of the month, I might well choose a picture that no-one else likes, so it doesn't really matter. But let's be honest, it *would* be helpful to promote the site if you could do the social media thing, and if you're super popular, you could tell your friends that it's vital they spread the word - so please do it if you can.
What sort of pictures do I like?
Oh I don't know. Summat interesting. A path that curves off into nowhere is always good, but I also like statues; interesting rock formations; attractive composition; foreground detail; selfies; irony; character; pushing the boundaries, opening the envelope and running outside the box. I like rivers and high streets; real stuff happening; rusty stuff; closeups; motion blur; rainy days and Sundays.
Go on, give it a go. You don't have to take the picture whilst you're running (in fact, it's probably best if you at least stop - don't forget to pause your Garmin), and it doesn't have to be somewhere you run regularly - just build the route, take the picture, and you might inspire someone else to discoveries of their own.
Thanks.
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Can you remind me - do the routes pics need to be a different shape to the regular gallery pics?McGoohan10:59am, 4th Jun 2014
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They are a lot more panoramic - something like 668px wide by 300 high - but if you start with a larger picture, there's an opportunity to crop and scale it.fetcheveryone11:01am, 4th Jun 2014
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Actually it's 668 wide by 250 high.fetcheveryone11:10am, 4th Jun 2014
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So - best if we have a bit of a croppage first before loading up rather than loading up and editing on FE? I'll fire up the quattro (i.e. the laptop where all the photos live)McGoohan11:28am, 4th Jun 2014
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You could try both waysfetcheveryone11:49am, 4th Jun 2014
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Ooh... mappage! I think the winner of said map should promise to create their route of the first use of the map on Fetch and upload a photo from their day out :DRunningRonnie8:56am, 6th Jun 2014
I did some intervals with the Suunto Ambit 2S today.
Or more accurately, I did some intervals, and the Suunto Ambit 2S came with me.
Unfortunately, it was not the best technological experience, but the session itself was good. 3 x 1 mile, with 2 min recoveries.
I've played with at least ten different GPS watches in the last six months or so, and aside from the very simple ones, they all have an on-board interval mode. Even something as simple as "how long are the hard bits, how long are the easy bits, how many all together". It doesn't take much effort to get this sort of thing set up. But all of this is absent from the Suunto, and also from the synch software that comes with it. To create an interval session, you have to register with MovesCount, and click Gear, and then create a new session type, and then poke and prod around a bit more. I consider myself to be fairly technically minded, but I had to look up a third-party tutorial to get the session set up. Finally, I did so - I called it 'Whatever', and I plugged in the watch, in order to synchronise it.
Fair enough, when I then looked at the watch menu, 'Whatever' pops up as an option. Ok says I, this could actually be quite good.
So I headed out, set to straightforward 'Running', as it doesn't seem to allow you to choose any sort of warm up, and frootled my way over to my starting point. Stopped the watch, scrolled through the options to 'Whatever', and up it came, ready to start.
I pressed start, and headed off at a fair old lick. Next problem. I'm assuming that when you create a new type of session on the website, it doesn't carry over all the useful screens that you get in normal running mode (whereby normally, you can press the View button to scroll through a variety of typical bits of data). It gave me elapsed time, elapsed distance, and something else which I've forgotten.
But anyway... I can probably cope with that. Intervals are about gutting the pig, so I proceded to gut it for another 0.99 miles, wondering what sort of fanfare would greet the end of my first effort. Nothing. No beeps, no flashing, it just carried on measuring out the miles.
In the end, I had to work out where I was from the elapsed time and distance, rendering the whole 'create an interval session' entirely pointless. The GPS accuracy has been very good all week though.
No doubt I've not clicked something, and it does look as though it would be possible to configure your sessions to quite a detailed degree - but the failure to back up some fairly simple urges was a real disappointment.
Or more accurately, I did some intervals, and the Suunto Ambit 2S came with me.
Unfortunately, it was not the best technological experience, but the session itself was good. 3 x 1 mile, with 2 min recoveries.
I've played with at least ten different GPS watches in the last six months or so, and aside from the very simple ones, they all have an on-board interval mode. Even something as simple as "how long are the hard bits, how long are the easy bits, how many all together". It doesn't take much effort to get this sort of thing set up. But all of this is absent from the Suunto, and also from the synch software that comes with it. To create an interval session, you have to register with MovesCount, and click Gear, and then create a new session type, and then poke and prod around a bit more. I consider myself to be fairly technically minded, but I had to look up a third-party tutorial to get the session set up. Finally, I did so - I called it 'Whatever', and I plugged in the watch, in order to synchronise it.
Fair enough, when I then looked at the watch menu, 'Whatever' pops up as an option. Ok says I, this could actually be quite good.
So I headed out, set to straightforward 'Running', as it doesn't seem to allow you to choose any sort of warm up, and frootled my way over to my starting point. Stopped the watch, scrolled through the options to 'Whatever', and up it came, ready to start.
I pressed start, and headed off at a fair old lick. Next problem. I'm assuming that when you create a new type of session on the website, it doesn't carry over all the useful screens that you get in normal running mode (whereby normally, you can press the View button to scroll through a variety of typical bits of data). It gave me elapsed time, elapsed distance, and something else which I've forgotten.
But anyway... I can probably cope with that. Intervals are about gutting the pig, so I proceded to gut it for another 0.99 miles, wondering what sort of fanfare would greet the end of my first effort. Nothing. No beeps, no flashing, it just carried on measuring out the miles.
In the end, I had to work out where I was from the elapsed time and distance, rendering the whole 'create an interval session' entirely pointless. The GPS accuracy has been very good all week though.
No doubt I've not clicked something, and it does look as though it would be possible to configure your sessions to quite a detailed degree - but the failure to back up some fairly simple urges was a real disappointment.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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Thank gawd for running club interval sessions, track and treadmills. That's a bit frustrating, to say the least.Lalli10:31pm, 3rd Jun 2014
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I have enough trouble getting my intervals the right way round on my simple Garmin - this Suunto is way too complicated for me. "Intervals are about gutting the pig" - no idea what that means, but I'll repeat it to myself on my next sessionLazyDaisy9:41am, 4th Jun 2014
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It's a very old quote from the very early days of Fetching. I think it means that one should imagine oneself being a pig, sacrificed on the altar of speedwork. Lovely image. No actual pigs were harmed in the making of this reviewfetcheveryone9:48am, 4th Jun 2014
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Undoubtedly I did it wrongfetcheveryone I'm sure there's ways to make it work perfectly - my point was more along the lines that I found it difficult to set up. Are you interested in doing some drawings btw? 12:23pm, 4th Jun 2014
Today has been quite productive. I've found a setting on our printer that means you can print off a blank to-do list by pressing a button. It's barely more than a sheet of lined paper, but it's got tick boxes, and a place to put a heading... and within 10 minutes I'd filled a sheet of A4 with my list. And there's something about the tick boxes that made them extra fun to tick off.
We ran six miles, which was nice, even though it was a bit warm. I'm planning intervals tomorrow with the Suunto - I thought it didn't do them, but apparently if you log into the Suunto website, you can set them up and transfer them to the watch. Hardly very portable or malleable, but I'll see how I get on - I have to send it back on Thursday.
Other than that, not a huge amount to report. Cabbage and bacon with pasta for tea - delicious but windy.
We ran six miles, which was nice, even though it was a bit warm. I'm planning intervals tomorrow with the Suunto - I thought it didn't do them, but apparently if you log into the Suunto website, you can set them up and transfer them to the watch. Hardly very portable or malleable, but I'll see how I get on - I have to send it back on Thursday.
Other than that, not a huge amount to report. Cabbage and bacon with pasta for tea - delicious but windy.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
A nice Sunday, with a dog walk, then a five mile run for me. I got stopped by a chap from Bedford Harriers because I was wearing my Sandy 10 shirt. The run was good, and the Suunto Ambit did a *much* better job.
Walden is progressing reasonably, although I'm starting to hope that there will be more in terms of insights into that way of life, rather than the current repetition of the same theme - namely "you don't need many things to live a happy life". But I've not found anything to disagree with, and it strikes a lot of chords, and despite being from the 19th century, it's just as relevant now, in fact even more so.
Regarding the website, I've been puzzling over something. Lets say I do my regular five mile route. I want to be able to break that route down into a sufficient number of 'checkpoints' to describe it accurately, but not so many that computation over a vast number of routes becomes too slow. Kind of like the most efficient way to describe the route. A typical GPS might record a point every second, which would mean about 5x9x60 locations for my typical run. If I were describing it to another human, there are probably 7-8 key directions.
So what I'd like is to feed those 5x9x60 points through a data mincer, and come out with as few points as possible. My feeling is that it comes down to picking out the turns and straights, and smoothing out the curves that are neither of the above.
Further to this, would it then be possible to use those checkpoints as parts of other runs, or do I have to use different ones each time? When is one runner's turn another runner's straight?
That's one of the things I think about when I think about running.
Walden is progressing reasonably, although I'm starting to hope that there will be more in terms of insights into that way of life, rather than the current repetition of the same theme - namely "you don't need many things to live a happy life". But I've not found anything to disagree with, and it strikes a lot of chords, and despite being from the 19th century, it's just as relevant now, in fact even more so.
Regarding the website, I've been puzzling over something. Lets say I do my regular five mile route. I want to be able to break that route down into a sufficient number of 'checkpoints' to describe it accurately, but not so many that computation over a vast number of routes becomes too slow. Kind of like the most efficient way to describe the route. A typical GPS might record a point every second, which would mean about 5x9x60 locations for my typical run. If I were describing it to another human, there are probably 7-8 key directions.
So what I'd like is to feed those 5x9x60 points through a data mincer, and come out with as few points as possible. My feeling is that it comes down to picking out the turns and straights, and smoothing out the curves that are neither of the above.
Further to this, would it then be possible to use those checkpoints as parts of other runs, or do I have to use different ones each time? When is one runner's turn another runner's straight?
That's one of the things I think about when I think about running.
Click here to suggest fetcheveryone's blog for today's highlights.
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My mind is boggledDiogenes9:53pm, 1st Jun 2014
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I've probably not described it very wellfetcheveryone9:54pm, 1st Jun 2014
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Road maps from Rac and aa (others are available) do something like that??D29:58pm, 1st Jun 2014
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Google do directions when you click a start and end point, but I don't want to rely on that, because it would fall down as soon as you head off-road. I think there'll be a decent algorithm out there, or if not, my best approximation of onefetcheveryone10:01pm, 1st Jun 2014
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Interesting idea Fetch. I always like to "describe" my route on my log. Its always easier in an urban locale as you can use street names but it becomes more difficult in country lanes or off road. I use crossroad names or familiar landmarks as my aide-memoir. Hope you find a creative solution.Seratonin10:37pm, 1st Jun 2014
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YOu lost me rather early onkatypie10:45pm, 1st Jun 2014
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One of the things I don't get about 'regular' routes, that I can't figure out how anyone/site can deal with, is that it's not always the same. Sometimes I run down a side road a little bit to get behind the queuing traffic at the lights and then back up the other side, sometimes I can run straight across if I have the green man. You get the idea.paul the builder8:07am, 2nd Jun 2014
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PtB - that's why I'm thinking about 'checkpoints'. Using the same principles as Fetchpoint, where you hit a marker if you run within X metres of it, I figure that if I can reduce any route to the minimum number of checkpoints, then it makes the computation that much easier. So your 'green man' day and your 'side road' day would both match, so long as you'd passed through all the key points.fetcheveryone8:17am, 2nd Jun 2014
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Yes, but they're (say) 100m different length routes. And there might be half a dozen instances like that on the route. So how can they be comparable? The best times will be the days you get lucky lights, rather than actually run the best.paul the builder12:43pm, 2nd Jun 2014
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And with the accuracy of GPS being as it is, you can even see that sort of variation if you *do* get lucky. Approximating the route into a series of checkpoints is IMHO, the only way to make it feasible on a large scale. Those minor detours and setbacks are just part of running in the wild, and perhaps it goes some way to explaining why our best races are usually better than our best training runs.fetcheveryone12:57pm, 2nd Jun 2014
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Not sure if this helps, but I see the route between any two checkpoints as a lego brick and by putting them together you can create an infinite number of routes and compare the similar sections. Would you have a minimum size brick, say 1/4 mile?Diogenes6:38am, 3rd Jun 2014
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I think I would start with a smoothing algotithm where any set of points gets reduced to a straight line if the overall variance from a straight line is less than a certain threshold. This needs to be applied to both to both few points and large numbers of points so I'd start thinking along the lines of the quick sort algorithm perhaps. I like the lego bricks suggestion too.Nightjar3:41pm, 3rd Jun 2014
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Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
This'll cheer you up for sure...
Lost in translation?
Annual Infographic... updating now.
In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
[Untitled]
Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
[Untitled]
A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
[Untitled]
Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
[Untitled]
Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
[Untitled]
Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
[Untitled]
Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
[Untitled]
Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes Cornflakes
Sandy 10
#bedfordhappy
Me on YouTube
New graphs live
Follow the dot
Only the best for the Captain's table
Mrs Diahann Wagner is GOING HORNY
Sport Relief Win
Hot dogs, quick blogs
Toton Sidings
A sign!
Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
Many things
A bit cabbagey here.
Angry Wasp
Minty
Rainbow's End
Core Dump
Bath Half (in detail)
A quick overview
Down to business in Bath
February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
I like to go a-wandering
Spring cleaning
Tongue-lolling
Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
Hot Re-fills
Coding Grinch
An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
Wipe-clean dog
Breaking it down
Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
19 books :-)
2013 (29)
December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
2012 (39)
December (2)
Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
Properly coldy
Still a bit coldy
New blog design live
A bit coldy
Blogs Redesign
April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
There Are Some Really Sexy Girls On Fetch
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