I am as full as a pheasant, and sitting on our bed with my feet up, doing nothing but digesting.
We got to Bath at about 1pm today, and after checking into our lovely B&B, we met up with Mr and Mrs Jigs for a nice lunch, and a stroll through the drizzle through the city centre. Then it was back to our room to watch the rugby (yay, exciting), before a lovely dinner cooked by our lovely hosts (google "77 Pultney Street", it's lovely).
Quite excited about the race now - and a bit nervous to boot. The wind seems ok at the moment, but it's due to pick up just as the race starts. So we could get really lucky. If it turns out to be hard work, I'll just switch off and try to enjoy the run.
Right then. This is too much effort now, so I'll sign off. Good luck to everyone racing tomorrow, and big hugs to everyone who isn't.
We got to Bath at about 1pm today, and after checking into our lovely B&B, we met up with Mr and Mrs Jigs for a nice lunch, and a stroll through the drizzle through the city centre. Then it was back to our room to watch the rugby (yay, exciting), before a lovely dinner cooked by our lovely hosts (google "77 Pultney Street", it's lovely).
Quite excited about the race now - and a bit nervous to boot. The wind seems ok at the moment, but it's due to pick up just as the race starts. So we could get really lucky. If it turns out to be hard work, I'll just switch off and try to enjoy the run.
Right then. This is too much effort now, so I'll sign off. Good luck to everyone racing tomorrow, and big hugs to everyone who isn't.
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It's Book Day at school today, which means everyone has to dress up as a character from a book. The kids mainly enjoy it, and the parents usually tear their hair out.
My boy went as a hobbit today. We couldn't decide which one he should be, so we went with the hybrid Thrillbo Baggins. His mum has helped him collect all the bits and bobs he needed, and I was entrusted with the job of trying to curl his hair. This didn't go well - I managed to burn his head. And when we transferred all the bits from his mum's car to mine, we didn't transfer all the bits. Luckily she'd noticed this morning, and dropped them off at a safe house on our route to school - hence the blog title.
It was the first continuous 20 minute run for the beginners group today, and they absolutely nailed it
We covered 1.7 miles in that time, so the distance is creeping up too. It's made me think back to before it all started, and all the concerns and doubts that they had. The best bit of the day was hearing how it's given them some added energy to do stuff like having races with their kids, and running up stairs. Big smiles all round, as we keep building towards that first 5k
Meanwhile, back at the coal face, I'm still noodling around with the 'Train' page. What would you like to see on there, and what would you be disappointed to lose? I'm asking all this now, so that when I do it the way I was gonna do it anyway, I can at least pretend you were consulted
My boy went as a hobbit today. We couldn't decide which one he should be, so we went with the hybrid Thrillbo Baggins. His mum has helped him collect all the bits and bobs he needed, and I was entrusted with the job of trying to curl his hair. This didn't go well - I managed to burn his head. And when we transferred all the bits from his mum's car to mine, we didn't transfer all the bits. Luckily she'd noticed this morning, and dropped them off at a safe house on our route to school - hence the blog title.
It was the first continuous 20 minute run for the beginners group today, and they absolutely nailed it
We covered 1.7 miles in that time, so the distance is creeping up too. It's made me think back to before it all started, and all the concerns and doubts that they had. The best bit of the day was hearing how it's given them some added energy to do stuff like having races with their kids, and running up stairs. Big smiles all round, as we keep building towards that first 5k Meanwhile, back at the coal face, I'm still noodling around with the 'Train' page. What would you like to see on there, and what would you be disappointed to lose? I'm asking all this now, so that when I do it the way I was gonna do it anyway, I can at least pretend you were consulted
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If you want something done properly.............Angus Clydesdale
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Interesting about your beginners - I've stuck with run/walk for now, it seems such a jump up to the continuous stretch and most of mine are rather intimidated.Autumnleaves3:10pm, 27th Feb 2015
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The route planner should have a "There and back again" option.Hendo3:26pm, 27th Feb 2015
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The 'Out and Back' option not doing it for you?fetcheveryone3:30pm, 27th Feb 2015
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Hendo
3:32pm, 27th Feb 2015
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by the train page do you mean the front page http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-home.php or http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training.php ?chunkywizard3:39pm, 27th Feb 2015
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I read that as 'the first 20 mile run for the beginners...'Iron_Mum I'd like to see faster times on the training page, please: can you fix it for me?3:41pm, 27th Feb 2015
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H - ah yes. I should have knownfetcheveryone
CW - the one with the dog. See older blogs.
IM - I could sell that4:34pm, 27th Feb 2015 -
Until a couple of years ago, when we logged a type of run (e.g., tempo, interval) we would get a pop up box showing recent runs of the same type, which I found very useful to gauge any improvements. I know we now have the Run Pace (Rolling) chart, but that can get quite skewed by LSRs, so any chance of reinstating the pop up?Flatlander5:40pm, 27th Feb 2015
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Happy to lose doggy. I just scroll past to him to see how I'm doing against my targets. In fact my targets are probably the only thing I actually look at on that page. I'd rather see the next few days plan, ta.JustCommando!5:50pm, 27th Feb 2015
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Can we have a VO2 graph please, it's measured on my garmin but not brought into Fetch.Podkin5:52pm, 27th Feb 2015
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Ah ok, if it's the dog page then it would be good to use that as a summary page of my training. Ie progress against goals, some charts of weekly/month/yearly stats eg mileage, vo2max for run/bike/combined. I don't know if you like inspiration from other sites but think Veloviewer or Garmin connect modern IMHOchunkywizard
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I don't know about the "train" page. But I am wondering why the create a thread relating to a race but has gone from a race page ?runningmumof3boys2:04pm, 28th Feb 2015
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Functionality to configure the graphs by type of run (long run, tempo, parkrun etc), would be useful.The Ant Hill Mob2:28pm, 28th Feb 2015
It's a run with my beginners tomorrow - and a bit of a milestone, as we tackle our first continuous 20 minute run They've been doing 2 x 10 mins, with a break sandwiched in the middle, this week - so we're getting together as a group to sew it all together. They've all done pretty well on it so far.
We'll cover about 2 miles in that time, maybe a little bit less, and then I'll do 1-2 myself afterwards - all at a gentle pace, and then that's me done before Bath on Sunday The wind seems to be picking up - it's now reported as being a 27mph westerly wind. The adjusted plan for wind goes like this:
Mile 1 = just go with the adrenaline. Mostly a side-wind.
Mile 2 = a mixture of into and out of the wind. Hang on.
Mile 3-4 = straight into the wind. Don't lose too much.
Mile 5-6.6 = make hay whilst the wind blows
Mile 8-9.5 = tuck in behind someone big
Mile 9.5-13.1 = fly home
Parents evening tonight - and the boy is doing ok. The teacher says he's keen to contribute in class, and seems happy to talk about what he knows, but he's a bit more reluctant when it comes to getting stuff down on paper. To the point where he's trying to do the least amount possible Some careful shoeing required
They've been doing 2 x 10 mins, with a break sandwiched in the middle, this week - so we're getting together as a group to sew it all together. They've all done pretty well on it so far. We'll cover about 2 miles in that time, maybe a little bit less, and then I'll do 1-2 myself afterwards - all at a gentle pace, and then that's me done before Bath on Sunday
The wind seems to be picking up - it's now reported as being a 27mph westerly wind. The adjusted plan for wind goes like this: Mile 1 = just go with the adrenaline. Mostly a side-wind.
Mile 2 = a mixture of into and out of the wind. Hang on.
Mile 3-4 = straight into the wind. Don't lose too much.
Mile 5-6.6 = make hay whilst the wind blows
Mile 8-9.5 = tuck in behind someone big
Mile 9.5-13.1 = fly home
Parents evening tonight - and the boy is doing ok. The teacher says he's keen to contribute in class, and seems happy to talk about what he knows, but he's a bit more reluctant when it comes to getting stuff down on paper. To the point where he's trying to do the least amount possible
Some careful shoeing required
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Good plan for miles 8-9.5 but make sure that when you have the tail wind, no one tucks in behind you and steals your helping hand. Have as good a run as the weather will allow.Flatlander5:34pm, 27th Feb 2015
Today I've been working on a redesign of the page you get to when you click 'Train'. None of it's live yet, so don't rush off for a look.
The stats show that it gets about half the number of page views as the main training log page (that's the one with the month navigator, and your list of training on it). However, I think the 'Train' page serves an important purpose, and I want to make a bit more of it. In my head, it needs to be like a dashboard, giving you an overview of your recent training - summarising all the important data, so you can get an idea of how you're doing without having to poke and prod at your training log.
That's all well and good for the folks who have lots of recent data - but I feel like it's also really failing to make an impression on new users. Try logging out for a moment, and then clicking on 'Train'. It looks bloody awful, doesn't it? There's a whole bunch of blank graphs on the left; there's a broken image where the kit list would be; there's some copy about mileage targets that doesn't make a lot of sense; and anything that might indicate some sort of life on the page (the list of recent training) is a whole scroll down the page. It's not all that great for early users either - in fact, it really only kicks into life when you've got plenty of data.
It needs an update.
Lots of people come to Fetch because they hear about the training log, or they come to the home page, and click the tabs in the menu. Forum = does what it says on the tin. Train = doesn't exactly lead you through the process.
More on that tomorrow. Suggestions welcome!
One of the things that happened whilst I was working on this today was the addition of kit alarms. It struck me that the 'kit graph' on the Train page might not need to be there at all, if you could get alerted when your kit had reached a certain mileage. So that's been added to the kit page now. I hope you like it.
The stats show that it gets about half the number of page views as the main training log page (that's the one with the month navigator, and your list of training on it). However, I think the 'Train' page serves an important purpose, and I want to make a bit more of it. In my head, it needs to be like a dashboard, giving you an overview of your recent training - summarising all the important data, so you can get an idea of how you're doing without having to poke and prod at your training log.
That's all well and good for the folks who have lots of recent data - but I feel like it's also really failing to make an impression on new users. Try logging out for a moment, and then clicking on 'Train'. It looks bloody awful, doesn't it? There's a whole bunch of blank graphs on the left; there's a broken image where the kit list would be; there's some copy about mileage targets that doesn't make a lot of sense; and anything that might indicate some sort of life on the page (the list of recent training) is a whole scroll down the page. It's not all that great for early users either - in fact, it really only kicks into life when you've got plenty of data.
It needs an update.
Lots of people come to Fetch because they hear about the training log, or they come to the home page, and click the tabs in the menu. Forum = does what it says on the tin. Train = doesn't exactly lead you through the process.
More on that tomorrow. Suggestions welcome!
One of the things that happened whilst I was working on this today was the addition of kit alarms. It struck me that the 'kit graph' on the Train page might not need to be there at all, if you could get alerted when your kit had reached a certain mileage. So that's been added to the kit page now. I hope you like it.
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I like itDiogenes10:33pm, 25th Feb 2015
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not quite what you're asking but I'd like the current month's log to be shown above all previous years so that I don't have to scroll down the page. Would also like the "calendar view" to cover the previous 4-5 weeks rather than the current calendar month.ChrisHB10:35pm, 25th Feb 2015
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I hate to go on and on about the advertising (and yes, I know it's apparently necessary so that the tightwads don't have to pay to use the site and that that's part of the cachet of Fetch) but, part of the problem is the disproportionately large (and amusing?) picture of a dog pishing on someone's shoes, which is an inducement to participate in Checkpoint (The Game)™, which is a thinly disguised advert for Gore. Remove the 'advert' and free up a load of space for other stuff.Angus Clydesdale
I agree that, when you log out and look at the page it's a load of meaningless blanks (apart from the dog picture) and I agree that it might not be a great shop window for Fetch. I don't have immediate solutions or even ideas, sorry. I'll try to be more helpful tomorrow.
I agree with ChrisHB that the 'calendar view' should cover a set number of weeks rather than a standard month.11:27pm, 25th Feb 2015 -
Dio - I like it too - I'm gonna try to keep the best bits, but maybe put them into a more inspiring order.fetcheveryone
Chris - the calendar on the right will show whatever date range is asked of it - so it follows the default, which is the current month. I'd agree that it might be more useful for the whole thing to show the last X weeks, rather than the month (which sometimes, esp. on 1st of the month means there are no entries to be seen). Leave that one with me. I'm not quite sure how I'd handle moving the month navigator right now, but let me have a think.
Angus - Checkpoints isn't connected to Gore. You're thinking of Fetchpoint. Incidentally, I think the large image probably will disappear as part of the redesign. Lots of people have fun playing both games (and the chance to win free stuff is largely welcomed as an extra bit of fun), and a lot of hard work has gone into building them, so perhaps I need to do more to ensure they aren't dismissed as advertisements.8:02am, 26th Feb 2015 -
I love that train page (although I have to click on train twice to get there) as it shows my total ever in the universe on fetch mileage number. As that counts down to the next big mielsetone I look at it quite often...RuthB28:36am, 26th Feb 2015
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That's going closer to the topfetcheveryone8:42am, 26th Feb 2015
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Don't get me wrong, I very much like the games and have signed up for all (or at least nearly all) of them. I also won stuff once so I'm not complaining about that either. And I love Fetch too - no other exercise site on my computer. No sirree!Angus Clydesdale
Whether or not we agree about advertising (which I'm also not complaining about because I've turned mine off with AdBlocker), all I'm saying is the mahoosive picture of a wee dog taking a wizz is, perhaps, less intelligible to someone who hasn't been around the site for long and was expecting maybe charts, graphs, stats and analysis (which I know are comprehensive and elsewhere). And it takes up loads of space on the page.9:50am, 26th Feb 2015 -
I like the 'train' page and the graph section in particular.The Ant Hill Mob
Could a short narrative be displayed to explain what each graph is depicting, perhaps when you hover over the graph name (in the same way as the exact numbers are shown when hovering over the graph detail). Yes, I know some are very self-explanatory and may not need much text at all, but I’ve forgotten what the ‘run benchmark’ and ‘pace percentage’ graphs are supposed to show and what the days to the left and right of zero on the ‘creaks and streaks’ graph represent.
Perhaps a short paragraph to explain what result would be shown if your training was improving your running times.
Could the time period selected for the graphs be shown in the general heading at the top of the graph section as an aid-memoir to save having to visit the control page? Perhaps this could also be updated from the ‘train’ page itself?
A link to training articles that can be found elsewhere on the site may also be helpful and increase cross referencing to integrate other pages.12:33pm, 26th Feb 2015 -
(in case you were wondering about what my mielsetone is, it's a cross between a type of soup and my next big target)RuthB212:40pm, 26th Feb 2015
Just back from my test run at race pace, and I wanted to get some notes down about how it went, before I forget some of the detail, as it feels pretty useful.
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=11019691
The mile splits go like this:
8:53 (WU), 7:56, 7:54, 8:01, 8:00 (not the 9:04 that's reported - I stopped to do a bit of filming before the thing clicked over. Doh!)
The avge HR splits go like this:
133, 161,164,167,171
Firstly, I'm a tiny bit wheezy now, which is unusual, particularly as I've been doing most of my runs faster than this. It might be down to breathing being a bit tougher in the wind, or it might be that my inhaler is on its last legs. Breathing certainly felt quite laboured after I turned into the wind. I've just looked at the local weather forecast, and it's showing as 20mph from the west, which means I was running straight into it. This has cheered me right up, as I didn't realise it was that strong. However, the (admittedly vague long term) forecast for Bath on Sunday is a 22mph westerly wind. At least it'll help blow me home, as it'll be at my back from 9.5 miles 'til the end.
Secondly, I had my watch set up to show me my lap pace. This is the sort of reading that means absolutely nothing for the first 0.1 of each mile, but gets pretty useful from then on. I'd been trying to hit 7:55, and thought I was doing well, but when each mile beeped, the total lap times were consistently about 4-5s slower per mile. This was worrying me a bit, as I wondered if it meant that I'd have to push even faster to hit my goal pace. However, I've just imported it - and discovered that the mile splits reported by the watch suffer from a bit of a rounding problem. It also brought me to a halt before I'd actually reached the five mile point, which was a bit annoying from a stat point of view, and makes my final mile look rubbish. Long story short, my pacing was actually pretty good today. On the day, I will completely ignore the split times that the watch reports, and just use the lap pace and course mile markers as a guide to how I'm doing.
Thirdly, I'm not all that pleased with the way that the HR had risen. Ideally, I would have liked it to have stayed consistent, or failing that, a bit lower than it was. But with a retrospective half an hour, and a cup of coffee, I'm willing to write a bit of that off due to the reasons already stated. In short, it hasn't taken me long to forget how tough that was, so if you could wish for a fair wind, dear reader, this thing might still be on.
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=11019691
The mile splits go like this:
8:53 (WU), 7:56, 7:54, 8:01, 8:00 (not the 9:04 that's reported - I stopped to do a bit of filming before the thing clicked over. Doh!)
The avge HR splits go like this:
133, 161,164,167,171
Firstly, I'm a tiny bit wheezy now, which is unusual, particularly as I've been doing most of my runs faster than this. It might be down to breathing being a bit tougher in the wind, or it might be that my inhaler is on its last legs. Breathing certainly felt quite laboured after I turned into the wind. I've just looked at the local weather forecast, and it's showing as 20mph from the west, which means I was running straight into it. This has cheered me right up, as I didn't realise it was that strong. However, the (admittedly vague long term) forecast for Bath on Sunday is a 22mph westerly wind. At least it'll help blow me home, as it'll be at my back from 9.5 miles 'til the end.
Secondly, I had my watch set up to show me my lap pace. This is the sort of reading that means absolutely nothing for the first 0.1 of each mile, but gets pretty useful from then on. I'd been trying to hit 7:55, and thought I was doing well, but when each mile beeped, the total lap times were consistently about 4-5s slower per mile. This was worrying me a bit, as I wondered if it meant that I'd have to push even faster to hit my goal pace. However, I've just imported it - and discovered that the mile splits reported by the watch suffer from a bit of a rounding problem. It also brought me to a halt before I'd actually reached the five mile point, which was a bit annoying from a stat point of view, and makes my final mile look rubbish. Long story short, my pacing was actually pretty good today. On the day, I will completely ignore the split times that the watch reports, and just use the lap pace and course mile markers as a guide to how I'm doing.
Thirdly, I'm not all that pleased with the way that the HR had risen. Ideally, I would have liked it to have stayed consistent, or failing that, a bit lower than it was. But with a retrospective half an hour, and a cup of coffee, I'm willing to write a bit of that off due to the reasons already stated. In short, it hasn't taken me long to forget how tough that was, so if you could wish for a fair wind, dear reader, this thing might still be on.
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The wind was strong and COLD today (here at least) so all things considered your run looks pretty good to me! Why does your log show HR graphs whereas mine shows Cadence? Is it to do with how your Garmin is set up? Hope Bath goes according to planAlice the Camel
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HR needs to be looked at in 4-6 week cycles. It can go up and down for any given run - health (e.g. breathing issues!), conditions (e.g. windy!), anxiety, fatigue from previous sessions etc. If you only lost 5s per mile in a strong wind, you're doing well. 10-20s per mile for me on 5Ks that I have tried on windy day. Well done generally.HappyG(rrr) G11:13am, 24th Feb 2015
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I reckon a wind like that would have a cost of around 15s a mile (data from Edinburgh parkrun). So a slight dip in pace/hr increase shows an increase in effort rather than a fade in performance. A few people (self included) have commented this winter on the cold winds troubling breathing: I wonder if we are getting the wrong kind of wind?Dvorak12:56pm, 24th Feb 2015
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Indeed, wind makes things very difficult. One thing I learnt early on, in races more than anything, is to arbitrage ebtween your watch and the mile/km markers to tell how you're doing in any given race. Which I also use for intervals, ie lamposts. Temperature too.....must affect you.Ocelot Spleens5:52pm, 24th Feb 2015
Here's the week in video form:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
The running was cut a bit shorter than I'd like (no beginners, and no extra miles post long run for me), but the extra rest wasn't unwelcome, and I'm aiming to do a bit of a race pace trial tomorrow morning now. Some might say it's a little close to race day, but (a) it worked well for me pre-Bath 2013, and (b) hey, if this doesn't come off, I'm marathon training anyway, don'tcha know.
And hey, hey - we came second on this thing:
therunningawards.com
I'm not sure if we win a prize or anything, but if it's a big tin of Roses, I'll share it with you.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
The running was cut a bit shorter than I'd like (no beginners, and no extra miles post long run for me), but the extra rest wasn't unwelcome, and I'm aiming to do a bit of a race pace trial tomorrow morning now. Some might say it's a little close to race day, but (a) it worked well for me pre-Bath 2013, and (b) hey, if this doesn't come off, I'm marathon training anyway, don'tcha know.
And hey, hey - we came second on this thing:
therunningawards.com
I'm not sure if we win a prize or anything, but if it's a big tin of Roses, I'll share it with you.
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Well done on the 20 miler and the award. I'll have one of the purple ones please.B.5:25pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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Of course they are wrong, Fetch is best.B.
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I voted for you (us). Surprised Running Bug wasn't up there from the number of likes on FB that other folk seem to give it. Go easy on race pace during the week. Short, sharp intervals or strides are most you should do in mini taper race prep week, imho. Good luck!HappyG(rrr) G5:36pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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We woz robbed!jennywren5:58pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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Does 2nd place get a medal?GimmeMedals6:29pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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'Run Mummy Run' - Twee beyond belief. What about a site that encourages lots of different people to run? Ooh, I don't know, like, oh yes, FetcheveryoneCStar9:47pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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I get nervous before LSRs as well! Good luck for Bath.Melbourne Runner11:26am, 24th Feb 2015
Back in Bedford, for a lovely dinner and a cwch with Katie
The Mystic Masseur officially saved my bacon today, cushioning my laptop as it fell off the sofa
Here comes a cutback week, with a HM and a weekend in Bath at the end of it. Looking forward to that
Lovely goodnight text from my boy!
See you at the coal face, bright and early tomorrow!
The Mystic Masseur officially saved my bacon today, cushioning my laptop as it fell off the sofa
Here comes a cutback week, with a HM and a weekend in Bath at the end of it. Looking forward to that
Lovely goodnight text from my boy!
See you at the coal face, bright and early tomorrow!
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I love it when I get a random communication of thoughtfulness or lovingness from a boy. Special. Hope you're working hard today! Happy Monday.HappyG(rrr) G1:25pm, 23rd Feb 2015
The boy bounced back today. We didn't make it to rugby, but he was full of beans again, and starting to get his appetite back.
We walked the dog, and watched the second Hunger Games movie - but not much besides.
I've been looking back at my last two Bath Half Marathons, to do a bit of that there visualisation.
My GPS has measured 13.24 for both events. I know lots of officially measured courses are like this - there's always about 1% added on, just to be on the safe side. But the first time it did that (2013), it really caught me out, as I thought I was on for a PB, and of course the finish line had other ideas. The second time (2014), I was just getting over a chest infection, so I was just pleased to finish.
This time, it's game on.
On the basis that I'll be running 13.24 miles, I need exactly 8:00/mile to get my PB (would be 8:05 for exactly 13.1 miles). And also working on the basis that I'd like to put a little bit in the bank, I'm going to aim for 7:55/mile. To try to measure how I'll get on, I'll be trying to do my faster run this week at 7:55/mile, and keeping an eye on my heart rate.
My 5k splits from 2013 look like this:
Split, Time, Average HR
5k 24:54 161bpm
10k 24:50 164bpm
15k 25:03 168bpm
20k 25:13 171bpm
I'll be aiming to do 5-6 miles at 7:55/mile, and what I'd like to see is whether I can keep the HR down below the 161 and 164 at the 5k and 10k stage. And if not, then I at least want to finish feeling strong.
7:55 for 6 miles would leave me with 7.24 miles to go, and the opportunity to drop back to 8:04/mile.
7:55 for 10 miles would leave me with 3.24 miles to go, and the opportunity to drop back to 8:31/mile.
7:55 for 13.24 miles would give me 1:44:49, and a 68 second PB.
I'd like that last one please.
We walked the dog, and watched the second Hunger Games movie - but not much besides.
I've been looking back at my last two Bath Half Marathons, to do a bit of that there visualisation.
My GPS has measured 13.24 for both events. I know lots of officially measured courses are like this - there's always about 1% added on, just to be on the safe side. But the first time it did that (2013), it really caught me out, as I thought I was on for a PB, and of course the finish line had other ideas. The second time (2014), I was just getting over a chest infection, so I was just pleased to finish.
This time, it's game on.
On the basis that I'll be running 13.24 miles, I need exactly 8:00/mile to get my PB (would be 8:05 for exactly 13.1 miles). And also working on the basis that I'd like to put a little bit in the bank, I'm going to aim for 7:55/mile. To try to measure how I'll get on, I'll be trying to do my faster run this week at 7:55/mile, and keeping an eye on my heart rate.
My 5k splits from 2013 look like this:
Split, Time, Average HR
5k 24:54 161bpm
10k 24:50 164bpm
15k 25:03 168bpm
20k 25:13 171bpm
I'll be aiming to do 5-6 miles at 7:55/mile, and what I'd like to see is whether I can keep the HR down below the 161 and 164 at the 5k and 10k stage. And if not, then I at least want to finish feeling strong.
7:55 for 6 miles would leave me with 7.24 miles to go, and the opportunity to drop back to 8:04/mile.
7:55 for 10 miles would leave me with 3.24 miles to go, and the opportunity to drop back to 8:31/mile.
7:55 for 13.24 miles would give me 1:44:49, and a 68 second PB.
I'd like that last one please.
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Have a great race - you deserve the PB; you've worked hard for itGimmeMedals6:51am, 22nd Feb 2015
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Nice stats, but I would say don't over think it and see what you feel on the day. You've worked hard so you can do. Have a great race.chunkywizard7:23am, 22nd Feb 2015
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That last one isNess7:32am, 22nd Feb 2015
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After all your training, you can do it.B.8:34am, 22nd Feb 2015
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Hope all goes to planAlice the Camel8:53am, 22nd Feb 2015
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You really deserve a PB, and you're definitely in the right shape for it. You can do it.KatieB10:01am, 22nd Feb 2015
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You're really going for a positive split? Given your marathon training, wouldn't it be better to aim for a negative split or even pacing? Very good thinking on the distance though, I've been caught out by an elusive finish line myself, must remember your trick of calculating paces for a longer distancefleecy10:29am, 22nd Feb 2015
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By the way, that wasn't supposed to be negative about your plan, I know some people do ok on positive splits and it's inevitable that you slow down at 10-11 miles (I find), but you know yourself best. Me, I have to factor in the first mile or so being slow due to crowds and warming up. But you've got plenty of long runs in the bank, you shouldn't be too uncomfortable in the later stages cos you have that endurance (you'd hope!). I think even splits are what you should aim forfleecy10:35am, 22nd Feb 2015
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Good luck for the PB. I have to pick you up about the measurement though: organisers won't be adding on 1%. Bath is a certified course (done by one of the world's top measurers (and a past London marathon winner)). Whilst there is a "short course correction factor" the maximum a HM would be longer is 42m. Info here: coursemeasurement.org.ukDvorak3:30pm, 22nd Feb 2015
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When I race, I do use a Garmin to get an idea of my current pace, but I also wear a timing watch and press the lap button at each official mile marker which gives me an accurate gauge of my race time. Dvorak's right, Hugh Jones is an official credited course measurer.Flatlander
An alternative HM strategy for you could be something like 7:57/7:58 for the first few miles, and then slow down as necessary but with far less chance of blowing up, and be more likely to finish strongly. You might even end up running faster than you would otherwise.
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Thanks everybodyfetcheveryone I have a 7:55 run planned for tomorrow, so it'll hopefully give me a useful feel for how it's going to go. Not intending to slow down in the second half of the race, it's more about understanding the contingency. And no slur on course measurers intended - I always add a small amount when estimating small amounts, to avoid underestimating them 10:23am, 23rd Feb 2015
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Yeah, ditto to Dv up there. The course will be 13.11 miles. The route you run (dodging round other runners, not quite racing line etc.) may be a bit longer, but the main thing is a Garmin is often out - either consistently or randomly. The one I have now (maybe my 4th or 5th Garmin) is consistent 0.1-0.2% over. Others I have had have lost distance, even where there weren't obvious obstacles like trees, buildings or mountains. Have you seen Paul The Builder's patent Garmin correction method of mile measuring? It's in one of his blogs and should really be in the Fetch Bible. I'll try and find a link to it. It is dependent on the race having accurate on course mile markers though. Does it? Good luck, sounds like you're in great shape. Give it da beanz!HappyG(rrr) G1:23pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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Link to ptb's blog on manual mile lapping or how to avoid Garmin-induced PB rage! Good luck. http://www.fetcheveryone.com/blog-view.php?id=2734#comments207426HappyG(rrr) G1:31pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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I hereby vow never to use the phrase "about 1%" again when discussing course measurement.fetcheveryone2:23pm, 23rd Feb 2015
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Dvorak
Although GPS post race traces can have particular use identifying when a course is actually layed out wrong, for example the 2014 Scottish Half Marathon (other inaccurate races are available, but probably none which has ever handled its post-rsce customer relations so badly).2:46pm, 23rd Feb 2015
After posting my blog last night, the boy made a further dash for the bathroom, decorating another bedroom carpet en route. I sorted him out, but then ended up sleeping in my clothes as I fell asleep on top of the duvet, as he lay under it.
At just after 5am, he woke asking for a shower, which he sometimes likes just to cool off. So all in all, we've not had the most restful time.
Having said that, we totally and utterly sat in front of the TV all day, alternately dozing off, and trying to stay hydrated.
All he's eaten today is jelly, but I hope he gets a hankering for some grub in the morning. He's in my bed again, as it's much closer to the bathroom, and doesn't involve climbing down a ladder to get out.
I did do a bit of work, putting together an email that will go out to beginners, reminding them of our programme. I've also made the smallest of starts on the mobile-friendly version of the training log.
My beginners were left to fend for themselves, and did well by all accounts. One of them even said they tend to go faster when I'm not there. Challenge accepted
And of course, no running today. Just as well really, it means I can give my hamstring a little bit of extra rest.
That's about it. Just really hoping the boy has a good night, and missing my lovely wife (check out her blog today).
At just after 5am, he woke asking for a shower, which he sometimes likes just to cool off. So all in all, we've not had the most restful time.
Having said that, we totally and utterly sat in front of the TV all day, alternately dozing off, and trying to stay hydrated.
All he's eaten today is jelly, but I hope he gets a hankering for some grub in the morning. He's in my bed again, as it's much closer to the bathroom, and doesn't involve climbing down a ladder to get out.
I did do a bit of work, putting together an email that will go out to beginners, reminding them of our programme. I've also made the smallest of starts on the mobile-friendly version of the training log.
My beginners were left to fend for themselves, and did well by all accounts. One of them even said they tend to go faster when I'm not there. Challenge accepted
And of course, no running today. Just as well really, it means I can give my hamstring a little bit of extra rest.
That's about it. Just really hoping the boy has a good night, and missing my lovely wife (check out her blog today).
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I hope the boy feels better soon!Bintmcskint10:21pm, 20th Feb 2015
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Poor little chap, I hope you both have a good rest tonight.Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)10:40pm, 20th Feb 2015
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Poor lad - hope he feels better tomorrowjennywren10:49pm, 20th Feb 2015
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Oh dear there have been some horrible bugs about, I hope he feels better today, he is lucky to have such a nice dad to look after him.D28:29am, 21st Feb 2015
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Hope he is soon better - however next time I have a bug I think I will take to my bed/sit in front of the TV all day and only eat jelly... it sounds like a good tonic for most ailmentsBaronessBL11:09am, 21st Feb 2015
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I'm feeling ever so slightly poorly, I think I better do that now Baroness, just in casefleecy2:35pm, 21st Feb 2015
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Hope he's feeling better today.Elsie Too3:20pm, 21st Feb 2015
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Hope he's better now but next time, leave a bucket or bowl next to the bed.alpenrose7:27am, 22nd Feb 2015
I would have posted this blog much sooner, but I've just been cleaning up a puddle of sick that my boy produced from the top bunk of his bed, onto the bedroom floor I think tomorrow's plans have changed. His first sick day for about four years I think.
Anyway... here's what I was in the middle of writing...
What a very tiring, but very excellent day yesterday!
Up early to cram in some breakfast, then off for our 20 miler. I promised that I'd dissect it a bit more yesterday, now that I've got my breath back.
A direct comparison with the 18 from the previous week is a bit hard - it felt like a different animal. Firstly, it was a bit warmer - two layers felt like a lot at times, and I was tempted to take my top layer off - but I don't think the world is quite ready for me in a skin tight lime green t-shirt just yet
Second, my left hamstring was a bit niggly for a large proportion of the run. This is a new thing, and has come out of nowhere. I've always had fairly tight hamstrings, but I can recall the last two times I've pulled them (in the 100m at Derby track, a month after London 2008; and playing village cricket back in 2002), so they've not really presented a problem. Katie put me through the taffy machine today, and given me instructions not to do any speedy stuff tomorrow. Hopefully this means it'll settle down.
Back to the run. As I said yesterday, we went off a bit faster. I've got mixed feelings about that, as I think it made up for the lack of hills - and we were aiming to make it a bit easier on ourselves yesterday. But the first 9-10 really breezed by, and it was actually hard to think about slowing down. The difference in pace makes it a bit harder to compare HR between the 20 and the 18 from the previous week - but there is an interesting pattern. This week the HR stays fairly consistent for the first 17 miles, and then is about 10bpm higher for the last 3. Last week, it did a similar thing, holding steady for the first 15, before going up by about 10bpm for the last 3. Both of these points roughly coincide with the point where both runs started to feel really tough. A similar thing happened in the last mile of the 16, but there's no noticeable upturn in the 14 or the 12. Is the upturn an indicator of when my body starts to employ more fat burning, as glycogen supplies are low - therefore needing more oxygen? If so, I hope it also implies that I'm pushing that point further towards the finish line!
The tiredness that comes after you've done one of these is quite special. I've been taking my refuelling very slowly, so as to avoid the stomach issues that I've had in previous weeks. So tempting to act like a human garbage disposal unit. I think it's a bit tough on my stomach *whatever* I do, but touch wood, things were ok, just a little grumbly.
After beans on marmite on toast at about 4pm, we lazed around for a bit, and got things ready for Katie's quiz. We had a great time, although I think both of us were in a bit of a daze. It was quite surreal actually. My job was to go round with the raffle tickets, and it was really very humbling to see everyone reaching into their pockets, and lobbing all sorts of big contributions into the tin. It felt strange knowing that only a small handful of the entrants would win anything... but then, it's lovely that everyone was willing to give, and to have a bit of fun with just the chance of winning.
The food was a ploughman's supper - I'm not usually very big on salad, but by this time my stomach was ready to fight - and I totally inhaled it. I even used my bread roll to mop up the leftover butter on my plate. The quiz itself was a bit of fun - but entertaining to see some folks taking it very seriously And the crowning bit for me at the end of the night was seeing Katie with the microphone, doing the thank you's, and knowing how much emotional energy she'd put into it, and just how much it meant to her to have the support of the people around her.
I'll end this blog here, as I need to make a bed up on the sofa (having surrendered my bed to the boy). Toodle pip.
I think tomorrow's plans have changed. His first sick day for about four years I think. Anyway... here's what I was in the middle of writing...
What a very tiring, but very excellent day yesterday!
Up early to cram in some breakfast, then off for our 20 miler. I promised that I'd dissect it a bit more yesterday, now that I've got my breath back.
A direct comparison with the 18 from the previous week is a bit hard - it felt like a different animal. Firstly, it was a bit warmer - two layers felt like a lot at times, and I was tempted to take my top layer off - but I don't think the world is quite ready for me in a skin tight lime green t-shirt just yet
Second, my left hamstring was a bit niggly for a large proportion of the run. This is a new thing, and has come out of nowhere. I've always had fairly tight hamstrings, but I can recall the last two times I've pulled them (in the 100m at Derby track, a month after London 2008; and playing village cricket back in 2002), so they've not really presented a problem. Katie put me through the taffy machine today, and given me instructions not to do any speedy stuff tomorrow. Hopefully this means it'll settle down.
Back to the run. As I said yesterday, we went off a bit faster. I've got mixed feelings about that, as I think it made up for the lack of hills - and we were aiming to make it a bit easier on ourselves yesterday. But the first 9-10 really breezed by, and it was actually hard to think about slowing down. The difference in pace makes it a bit harder to compare HR between the 20 and the 18 from the previous week - but there is an interesting pattern. This week the HR stays fairly consistent for the first 17 miles, and then is about 10bpm higher for the last 3. Last week, it did a similar thing, holding steady for the first 15, before going up by about 10bpm for the last 3. Both of these points roughly coincide with the point where both runs started to feel really tough. A similar thing happened in the last mile of the 16, but there's no noticeable upturn in the 14 or the 12. Is the upturn an indicator of when my body starts to employ more fat burning, as glycogen supplies are low - therefore needing more oxygen? If so, I hope it also implies that I'm pushing that point further towards the finish line!
The tiredness that comes after you've done one of these is quite special. I've been taking my refuelling very slowly, so as to avoid the stomach issues that I've had in previous weeks. So tempting to act like a human garbage disposal unit. I think it's a bit tough on my stomach *whatever* I do, but touch wood, things were ok, just a little grumbly.
After beans on marmite on toast at about 4pm, we lazed around for a bit, and got things ready for Katie's quiz. We had a great time, although I think both of us were in a bit of a daze. It was quite surreal actually. My job was to go round with the raffle tickets, and it was really very humbling to see everyone reaching into their pockets, and lobbing all sorts of big contributions into the tin. It felt strange knowing that only a small handful of the entrants would win anything... but then, it's lovely that everyone was willing to give, and to have a bit of fun with just the chance of winning.
The food was a ploughman's supper - I'm not usually very big on salad, but by this time my stomach was ready to fight - and I totally inhaled it. I even used my bread roll to mop up the leftover butter on my plate. The quiz itself was a bit of fun - but entertaining to see some folks taking it very seriously
And the crowning bit for me at the end of the night was seeing Katie with the microphone, doing the thank you's, and knowing how much emotional energy she'd put into it, and just how much it meant to her to have the support of the people around her. I'll end this blog here, as I need to make a bed up on the sofa (having surrendered my bed to the boy). Toodle pip.
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Sleep well, you've all done very well.Diogenes11:56pm, 19th Feb 2015
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I hope that you had a disturbance free night !Rosehip7:38am, 20th Feb 2015
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I can feel your tiredness as I read this - and I've just got up!alpenrose8:26am, 20th Feb 2015
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Could it be also that your glutes are a bit weak, meaning that the hamstrings are having to work harder to compensate for them?Flatlander
It certainly seems that you're pushing your boundary, which is a good sign that you're adapting to the training :-).
Good news about the quiz, and that it was worth Katie's efforts.8:33am, 20th Feb 2015 -
Hyde park is NOT the biggest London park! And who was the first international cricket match between???Wine Legs9:10am, 20th Feb 2015
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Ooh, kiddy projective voms. I remember that. And the poor things looking all wabbit. Then zonking straight to sleep leaving you to clear up! Good long runnage there. And well done you and Katie on fund raising. It's hard work, but very rewarding, I'm sure.HappyG(rrr) G1:44pm, 20th Feb 2015
20 miles done
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10999801
We sped into it this week, getting to the 10 mile mark in less than 100 minutes, compared to about 103 on the 18 last week. We both struggled in the second half - maybe as a result, but we went through 18 about 6 mins quicker than last week too.
I think we've reached the point where the long runs can't quite be recovered from, before the next one comes along - everything felt quite creaky and a little sore. But now we have 10 days before our next long run (Bath Half), and a further 9 days after that before we do our next 20, so hopefully we've just about made it to the top of the mountain, and have a bit more breathing space from here on.
We're both recovering now, so we can go do the pub quiz tonight. I'll sit and chew over the run stats a bit more tomorrow.
Zzzzzzz.
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10999801
We sped into it this week, getting to the 10 mile mark in less than 100 minutes, compared to about 103 on the 18 last week. We both struggled in the second half - maybe as a result, but we went through 18 about 6 mins quicker than last week too.
I think we've reached the point where the long runs can't quite be recovered from, before the next one comes along - everything felt quite creaky and a little sore. But now we have 10 days before our next long run (Bath Half), and a further 9 days after that before we do our next 20, so hopefully we've just about made it to the top of the mountain, and have a bit more breathing space from here on.
We're both recovering now, so we can go do the pub quiz tonight. I'll sit and chew over the run stats a bit more tomorrow.
Zzzzzzz.
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I hope the pub quiz is a success. Have a good eveningGimmeMedals5:07pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Hope you all have fun tonight and raise lots of moneySarahWoo5:09pm, 18th Feb 2015
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well done! I have been following your long runs and wondered what you would be doing once you got to 20. I am on 17.5 but my marathon is the week after VLM.Melbourne Runner5:16pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Nice running! i hope the pub quiz goes well.B.5:19pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Hope you don't fall asleep at the quizDiogenes5:47pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Hope the quiz goes well and remember and take a pic for. #FetchPAD. 😉pedroscalls5:53pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Good running, and good luck tonight.Alice the Camel5:59pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Good luck tonight.Ness6:00pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Try not to fall asleep in your pint tonight!minardi6:17pm, 18th Feb 2015
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Wow, well done! I hope I'm not behind in the training as I'm planning 18 this weekend. Enjoy the quizHippity6:31pm, 18th Feb 2015
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That's a nice flat routeRosehip
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that's not bad pacing - there's not a great deal of drift in the later miles. As you say, when you hit the big miles you tend to be carrying some fatigue - it's all good training, and why you have the taper.flanker12:20am, 19th Feb 2015
For those of you that haven't read older blogs, I've been building a mobile-friendly version of the site. I've started with an exact copy of the main website, and have been paring it back, section by section, starting with the forum last week. If you're viewing this blog on your mobile, come and have a look at the mobile version of the blog pages:
m.fetcheveryone.com
(it'll look all massive if you view it on a desktop, so get your mobile out of your pocket, now :-))
Things:
The links to write a blog, and to view your own blog, are under the big red title bar.
Buddies only blogs are highlighted in pale yellow
Favourited blogs are highlighted in pale red
When you view a blog, there's a 'Back to Blogs' link above the red title bar, and "Previous
Next" links on the right, so you can page through different bloggers.
To keep the layout simple, the comments, and the 'add comments' box are hidden behind a click - you can see these at the foot of each blog entry.
When you write a blog, the form elements should be the full width of the screen.
Questions:
1) Can you navigate it easily?
2) Obviously, there are a few features missing. Are there any I should put back?
Not directly related things:
I've adjusted the black menu bar at the top of the page, so that it's not permanently pinned to the top.
I've cut out some of the content that was popping up to the north of the menu.
When you click the menu icon (the little white bars at the top-left corner of the page), the menu slides down now, not in from the left.
I've simplified the options in the menu, so that it just links to the top-level of each category within the site.
Even more general stuff:
1) If you wander outside of the forum and blogs, it'll start to look a lot more like the regular site content (albeit with the strange new menu up top). This is because I've only done the forum and blogs.
2) If you want to report some weirdness, PLEASE make sure you say what mobile you're using, and if possible upload a screenshot to the gallery.
3) Notifications probably don't work properly yet.
4) I've no idea what to do with the home page, at the moment.
A final question:
Which section shall I work on next?
m.fetcheveryone.com
(it'll look all massive if you view it on a desktop, so get your mobile out of your pocket, now :-))
Things:
The links to write a blog, and to view your own blog, are under the big red title bar.
Buddies only blogs are highlighted in pale yellow
Favourited blogs are highlighted in pale red
When you view a blog, there's a 'Back to Blogs' link above the red title bar, and "Previous
Next" links on the right, so you can page through different bloggers.
To keep the layout simple, the comments, and the 'add comments' box are hidden behind a click - you can see these at the foot of each blog entry.
When you write a blog, the form elements should be the full width of the screen.
Questions:
1) Can you navigate it easily?
2) Obviously, there are a few features missing. Are there any I should put back?
Not directly related things:
I've adjusted the black menu bar at the top of the page, so that it's not permanently pinned to the top.
I've cut out some of the content that was popping up to the north of the menu.
When you click the menu icon (the little white bars at the top-left corner of the page), the menu slides down now, not in from the left.
I've simplified the options in the menu, so that it just links to the top-level of each category within the site.
Even more general stuff:
1) If you wander outside of the forum and blogs, it'll start to look a lot more like the regular site content (albeit with the strange new menu up top). This is because I've only done the forum and blogs.
2) If you want to report some weirdness, PLEASE make sure you say what mobile you're using, and if possible upload a screenshot to the gallery.
3) Notifications probably don't work properly yet.
4) I've no idea what to do with the home page, at the moment.
A final question:
Which section shall I work on next?
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I am no expert but I don't like to not give a comment after all your work, suffice to say that I can navigate it ok, I will leave it to someone else to suggest what section to work on next.Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
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Work on the training plan next please, or the training logPricey2:02pm, 17th Feb 2015
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I read Bilbo Baton's blog on my Samsung Galaxy II (thus Android) and the layout was weird - all the writing down the left hand side leaving a load of blank white space on the right-hand side of the page.LazyDaisy3:10pm, 17th Feb 2015
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Thanks LD. When you see that happen, could you try refreshing the page, just to see if that clears it?fetcheveryone3:11pm, 17th Feb 2015
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It was fine this time, I had a look at other blogs too, all displaying sensibly thanks.LazyDaisy4:19pm, 17th Feb 2015
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Oooh, will take a look later this evening. Just in time for a weekend away. Training logging next please.Lalli4:26pm, 17th Feb 2015
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dates/times on postsHendo
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log out button is massive and looks like the fwd icon in iOS. Unread thread count somewhere?Hendo5:49pm, 17th Feb 2015
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pretty much what Hendo said.flanker
1. Logout button is large and its function not obvious
2. Would be nice to have unread counts
3. a list of subscribed unread (as on main site)
4. maybe think about how to show avatars/names as you can lose a lot of valuable screen real estate for them on a one word posting.
All minor thing though - generally a good start (using iOS 8/Safari)
Training log next pls.8:46pm, 17th Feb 2015
The Katie bit is in this week's training vLog:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
Today I was looking at my Amazon list - I tend to stick a whole bunch of stuff in my basket that I might get round to buying one day. Lots of it I probably won't, but it's good for keeping a record of books I'd like to read, or albums I'd like to buy (isn't it nice when you can buy CD's that you used to listen to, for only about a quid).
Anyway... as a result of all this, Amazon also tries to flog me 'recommended' stuff. And today, for some unknown reason, it's recommended that I buy a deerstalker hat. Aside from having previously bought some Arthur Conan Doyle (not SH), I can't imagine how it's made that connection.
Today we ran 5 miles, and by the end of mile 1, we found ourselves doing close to 9min/mile, which is a fair bit faster than we'd normally set out to do. Normally, it's either around 9:45-10min/mile for the easy/long run stuff, or it's tempo pace, which for me means about 7:30/mile. So we did the next 3 at sub-9min/mile, just because.
It turned out to be a good test. Sub-9:09 would give me a sub-4 marathon, which is something I've been vaguely wondering about. What I was hoping to see when I got home was a nice low HR for this sort of pace. And it was pretty good - I managed to get 85% of my time at less than 75% of WHR. I *think* this means that I can run at this pace without using too much glycogen. Expert input welcomed
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10992232
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
Today I was looking at my Amazon list - I tend to stick a whole bunch of stuff in my basket that I might get round to buying one day. Lots of it I probably won't, but it's good for keeping a record of books I'd like to read, or albums I'd like to buy (isn't it nice when you can buy CD's that you used to listen to, for only about a quid).
Anyway... as a result of all this, Amazon also tries to flog me 'recommended' stuff. And today, for some unknown reason, it's recommended that I buy a deerstalker hat. Aside from having previously bought some Arthur Conan Doyle (not SH), I can't imagine how it's made that connection.
Today we ran 5 miles, and by the end of mile 1, we found ourselves doing close to 9min/mile, which is a fair bit faster than we'd normally set out to do. Normally, it's either around 9:45-10min/mile for the easy/long run stuff, or it's tempo pace, which for me means about 7:30/mile. So we did the next 3 at sub-9min/mile, just because.
It turned out to be a good test. Sub-9:09 would give me a sub-4 marathon, which is something I've been vaguely wondering about. What I was hoping to see when I got home was a nice low HR for this sort of pace. And it was pretty good - I managed to get 85% of my time at less than 75% of WHR. I *think* this means that I can run at this pace without using too much glycogen. Expert input welcomed
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10992232
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Deerstalkers are coolMcGoohan6:22pm, 16th Feb 2015
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I thought bow ties were cool?Angus Clydesdale7:39pm, 16th Feb 2015
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lol amazon has a wishlist too, i use that to store future buyskstuart8:12pm, 16th Feb 2015
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I have one-click turned on for Amazon. Anything I might buy is oops... when did I order that? I do try to use the Fetch affiliate link when I remember.quimby4:28am, 17th Feb 2015
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Nothing useful to add, but do you ever go the long way home down Longholme Way?Hippity1:34pm, 17th Feb 2015
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Lolfetcheveryone1:37pm, 17th Feb 2015
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Fat burning capacity varies between individuals and can be increased by appropriate diet and training. For a ‘typical’ male, fat burning reaches a peak at about 75% of WHR and falls to about half its peak rate by 80% WHR. Provided you develop adequate leg muscle resilience, you should be in good shape for sub-4 hours. (A specialist marathon runner would probably aim to increase fat burning capacity so that it was not far below peak even at 80% WHR – but I would think at this stage getting your legs used to long running should probably be your priority.) Good luckCanute6:38pm, 17th Feb 2015
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Thanks Canute. Our plan includes 3 x 20 miles, typically at about 10mins/mile, so I hope that will cover it. I also have an interesting test on March 1st, when I'll be trying to run 8mins/mile at Bath Halffetcheveryone6:47pm, 17th Feb 2015
Just back after a 13 hour round trip to the Isle of Wight
Up at 5.30am, on the road by 6am, Portsmouth by 8.30 for the 9am ferry. Magic portal to Greggs from the Costa at the ferry terminal
A quick catch up over a coffee with Katie's dad and step mum, then out into the garden to do some overdue gardening jobs. Back in for pork casserole for lunch, followed by sherry trifle and a walk on the downs with their adorable dog (adorable until she ran off). Managed to watch the first half of the match
Drove like Colin McCrae, as the satnav had a mental meltdown and took us along farm tracks and through every pot hole imaginable, JUST in time to board the ferry. Overheard a woman on the ferry talking about the rugby score, which was a bit annoying as I'd recorded it to watch. Then 2.5 hours of increasingly busy motorway, until here we are right now.
And the fun hasn't finished yet.
We're off to the local pub to sell raffle tickets for Katie's quiz. It's on Wednesday. If you haven't got any plans, please come along
Up at 5.30am, on the road by 6am, Portsmouth by 8.30 for the 9am ferry. Magic portal to Greggs from the Costa at the ferry terminal
A quick catch up over a coffee with Katie's dad and step mum, then out into the garden to do some overdue gardening jobs. Back in for pork casserole for lunch, followed by sherry trifle
and a walk on the downs with their adorable dog (adorable until she ran off). Managed to watch the first half of the match Drove like Colin McCrae, as the satnav had a mental meltdown and took us along farm tracks and through every pot hole imaginable, JUST in time to board the ferry. Overheard a woman on the ferry talking about the rugby score, which was a bit annoying as I'd recorded it to watch. Then 2.5 hours of increasingly busy motorway, until here we are right now.
And the fun hasn't finished yet.
We're off to the local pub to sell raffle tickets for Katie's quiz. It's on Wednesday. If you haven't got any plans, please come along
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Sounds like a pretty full-on day - bet you sleep well tonightSeratonin7:48pm, 15th Feb 2015
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That's a busy Sunday!GimmeMedals7:51pm, 15th Feb 2015
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That's a day and a half!Diogenes9:07pm, 15th Feb 2015
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We're just back from the pub - sold about £110 in raffle ticketsfetcheveryone 10:09pm, 15th Feb 2015
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Not as annoying as being at the game and *seeing* the resultHappyG(rrr) Well played, was a good match. Could have gone either way, imho. Great atmosphere - you must come visit some time. G12:50pm, 16th Feb 2015
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That would be epicfetcheveryone Really looking forward to seeing the Ireland match at the Milstad2:03pm, 16th Feb 2015
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Not heard a bit of Max for years. Thanksflanker2:29pm, 16th Feb 2015
I raced parkrun today
I slowed down a bit from start to finish, but ended up with 22:39, which is a 7:19 average. It's a good starting point for the year, and something I can chomp away at, when my legs are a bit fresher
Cake at Fancy, and I've got my breathing technique right. One slab of chocolate cake, inhaled
The boy is fully recovered from his episode yesterday, and has reversed his decision never to run again
A nice valentines dinner with Katie (steak and potatoes), and it's an early bath for both of us. Mainly 'cos we've got to be on the road for 6am tomorrow morning to catch our ferry to the IoW.
Night campers.
I slowed down a bit from start to finish, but ended up with 22:39, which is a 7:19 average. It's a good starting point for the year, and something I can chomp away at, when my legs are a bit fresher
Cake at Fancy, and I've got my breathing technique right. One slab of chocolate cake, inhaled
The boy is fully recovered from his episode yesterday, and has reversed his decision never to run again
A nice valentines dinner with Katie (steak and potatoes), and it's an early bath for both of us. Mainly 'cos we've got to be on the road for 6am tomorrow morning to catch our ferry to the IoW.
Night campers.
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I got told off today, for saying I raced parkrun on my Fb status, a few people got the right hump coz it's NOT a race. Well done on your time and well racedMilestheCat9:51pm, 14th Feb 2015
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Nice running, Fetch. I'd suggest the training is going very well indeed.-x-x-10:13pm, 14th Feb 2015
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Officially it is a timed run (even says so on the website description) and not a race lol I guess the only person you race is yourself or shadow. The moment the event turns into an official race and not a run is the moment it loses everything its ethos is all about.madmoosey
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You're of course racing the clock. Sure you'd never race anyone else. Do the Welsh find JD's commentary as irrationally biased as everyone else?flanker9:40am, 16th Feb 2015
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Of course it's biased, but I don't think he's alone. And I think you need someone to represent your own bias amongst the commentators. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when the news came out that he'd gone north, so he can be forgiven, as he was a bit of a talent in an era of decline.fetcheveryone11:16am, 16th Feb 2015
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Don't mind some bias - we've got Brian Moore! It's all part of the fun. But screaming for opponents to get cards while being blind to equivalent Welsh infringements distracted from the game and had me swearing at the commentator instead of the ref!flanker2:21pm, 16th Feb 2015
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It's probably my nationality, but it's never really bothered me. I miss Bill McClaren though.fetcheveryone2:48pm, 16th Feb 2015
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Yep, he was a class act.flanker5:50pm, 16th Feb 2015
A mixed bag today.
Woke myself up with a horrid dream about my boy smoking. One of those real chest thumping wake ups.
The beginners did fantastically well with the step up to week 4, and seem to be looking out for each other, which is great. The boy did well, bolstered by his friend turning up and running too. He's not far off a 5k I reckon
I treated him to a hot choc from the machine at the co-op, but as we drove home, he was complaining about it being just milky. And sure enough, there didn't seem to be any chocolate in it. I put a couple of spoonfuls of powder in it when we got home, and he got stuck in.
About an hour later, he was complaining of a headache. I wondered if he was dehydrated, so gave him another drink, and a bit of calpol. But his temperature got high, and he was jettisoning clothing in that way that kids do, but still hot and teary. I suggested a shower, which brought him back to his usual self, but shortly afterwards he was complaining of a sore tum, then leapt up and puked in the kitchen sink. It was a definite help to him, but he was clearly a bit wiped out, and slept for over an hour, lying with his legs on my lap, as I read my book.
He was a bit fragile-looking when I took him back to his mums, but reports that he's feeling a wee bit better. Since doing decimals at school, he's grading his well being out of 10 (this is a common question I ask of him) to one decimal place. He's up to 8.1 now
Really enjoying 'Flowers for Algernon'
Woke myself up with a horrid dream about my boy smoking. One of those real chest thumping wake ups.
The beginners did fantastically well with the step up to week 4, and seem to be looking out for each other, which is great. The boy did well, bolstered by his friend turning up and running too. He's not far off a 5k I reckon
I treated him to a hot choc from the machine at the co-op, but as we drove home, he was complaining about it being just milky. And sure enough, there didn't seem to be any chocolate in it. I put a couple of spoonfuls of powder in it when we got home, and he got stuck in.
About an hour later, he was complaining of a headache. I wondered if he was dehydrated, so gave him another drink, and a bit of calpol. But his temperature got high, and he was jettisoning clothing in that way that kids do, but still hot and teary. I suggested a shower, which brought him back to his usual self, but shortly afterwards he was complaining of a sore tum, then leapt up and puked in the kitchen sink. It was a definite help to him, but he was clearly a bit wiped out, and slept for over an hour, lying with his legs on my lap, as I read my book.
He was a bit fragile-looking when I took him back to his mums, but reports that he's feeling a wee bit better. Since doing decimals at school, he's grading his well being out of 10 (this is a common question I ask of him) to one decimal place. He's up to 8.1 now
Really enjoying 'Flowers for Algernon'
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Poor boy! Great that he's having a go at runningAlice the Camel3:17pm, 14th Feb 2015
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Rotten start to half termAutumnleaves we got our 17 year old out with the beginners today 3:21pm, 14th Feb 2015
There was a very dubious looking green spillage on the M1 today, a few hundred yards long, with lots of police and maintenance workers walking round the edge of it and coning it off. I've just looked it up, and it was fuel and/or oil from two lorries that collided in the middle of the night. Shudder.
It's been a day with the boy today, as it's half term here. We've built Cole's Boulder Blaster - that's a Lego Ninjago thing. It fires little torpedoes, eight of the little buggers, all in the space of about half a second. All of the spears then hide somewhere, and we have to find them ALL before order is restored to the galaxy.
Beginners tomorrow, and we're pushing on with week 4, but with added kids, and corresponding hot chocolate at the cafe afterwards. It's a big step up this week. The last three weeks have all had 8-9 minutes running, but tomorrow it jumps up to 16. I think they'll do great, but it's like any run where you push yourself - you don't quite believe in it 'til you've done it. I'm really pleased that my boy is willing to join in
We've also had some lovely news from Wales. My nephew has been picked as one of 125 boys from the Newport Gwent Dragons feeder sides, to go on a tour to Poland in the summer. There'll be Dragons coaches spotting talent, and a film crew. Very exciting for him, and for us watching
Katie and I have recovered amazingly well after yesterday's 18 and the near-comatose mire that followed. As Katie put it, "I thought I was tired when I finished the 16, but it turns out I wasn't". We were both pretty knackered last night, but despite an early start this morning, and a bit of stiffness in my legs after being in the car for nearly 2hrs, everything is feeling about as close to normal as I would dare it to feel. A mile or two with the beginners tomorrow will be a good test.
Nearly finished 'Heart of Darkness'. Despite being only 72 pages (of very small print - it's a 'thrift' edition that cost me a quid brand new), it's been a struggle. So much of the book is about the imagery, and the analog between the journey into the mind, and the journey up the river into the deepest part of the jungle, that it's a real wade. I have to concentrate hard, keep my finger on my place, and often re-read stuff to keep a grip on what's happening.
It's been a day with the boy today, as it's half term here. We've built Cole's Boulder Blaster - that's a Lego Ninjago thing. It fires little torpedoes, eight of the little buggers, all in the space of about half a second. All of the spears then hide somewhere, and we have to find them ALL before order is restored to the galaxy.
Beginners tomorrow, and we're pushing on with week 4, but with added kids, and corresponding hot chocolate at the cafe afterwards. It's a big step up this week. The last three weeks have all had 8-9 minutes running, but tomorrow it jumps up to 16. I think they'll do great, but it's like any run where you push yourself - you don't quite believe in it 'til you've done it. I'm really pleased that my boy is willing to join in
We've also had some lovely news from Wales. My nephew has been picked as one of 125 boys from the Newport Gwent Dragons feeder sides, to go on a tour to Poland in the summer. There'll be Dragons coaches spotting talent, and a film crew. Very exciting for him, and for us watching
Katie and I have recovered amazingly well after yesterday's 18 and the near-comatose mire that followed. As Katie put it, "I thought I was tired when I finished the 16, but it turns out I wasn't". We were both pretty knackered last night, but despite an early start this morning, and a bit of stiffness in my legs after being in the car for nearly 2hrs, everything is feeling about as close to normal as I would dare it to feel. A mile or two with the beginners tomorrow will be a good test.
Nearly finished 'Heart of Darkness'. Despite being only 72 pages (of very small print - it's a 'thrift' edition that cost me a quid brand new), it's been a struggle. So much of the book is about the imagery, and the analog between the journey into the mind, and the journey up the river into the deepest part of the jungle, that it's a real wade. I have to concentrate hard, keep my finger on my place, and often re-read stuff to keep a grip on what's happening.
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But are you drinking Um Bongo whist reading it?Dvorak11:22pm, 12th Feb 2015
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Good luck to your beginnersfleecy7:03am, 13th Feb 2015
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Sounds like a beginners run will be perfect for you.alpenrose8:24am, 13th Feb 2015
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I See the Dragons players in Ystrad every friday tucking into full Welsh breakfasts in Tesco, hope your nephew gets better nutritional advice when he goes to Poland. Tell him to stay off the "gowomcki" when he gets there, it,s vile.Dai Bank8:28am, 13th Feb 2015
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My group all coped well with Week 4 - though at wildly varying paces - we go up to Week 5 tomorrow - which has the three different programmes in - I don't think my slowest will cope with 20 minutes in one go!Autumnleaves9:39am, 13th Feb 2015
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I loved that book for exactly those reasons.RuthB210:03am, 13th Feb 2015
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Like Ruth, I enjoyed the imagery in Heart of Darkness.Helegant11:30am, 13th Feb 2015
We did our 18 miler this morning. The run is one thing, but the rest of the day is spent getting over it
On the whole, it went pretty well - I'm calling it a bit of an improvement on last week's 16. Sure, it was two miles longer, and those two extra miles felt pretty tough - but I *think* that the bulk of the run felt a bit more comfortable. Our overall pace is a little slower, but we had nine short breaks within the run for various things, including traffic lights, gel/water walks, stretches, and destoning shoes. Take all that out, and the bulk of our run was in the 9:40-10:20/mile bracket. It was a little hillier overall than last week's run (175m of climb, compared to 134m last week). Overall, my HR was a bit better - it was below 135bpm for 14 out of the 18 miles today, but went up to 145-150 for the last three miles. Last week, it was only below 135bpm for 6 out of the 16 miles. I know that's a bit skewed by our walk breaks, but I'm still treating it as a positive.
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10975584
One thing that marathon training does is fool you into thinking that the shorter races will be much easier as a result (although right now, the thought of moving my arse off the sofa AT ALL is not a welcome one). Last night I looked up what I need to get to Bronze (60%) this year. Last year I got 59% in three distances, so it'd be good to go at least one better for 2015
Here's the times I need (taken from http://www.fetcheveryone.com/race-standards.php):
Mile = 6:29 (PB 6:02, from 2008)
5k = 22:34 (PB 21:31, from 2008, 22:03 in 2014)
5M = 37:19 (PB 36:23, from 2009, 37:38 in 2014)
10k = 47:00 (PB 46:44, from 2014!!)
10M = 1:16:55 (PB 1:19:02, from 2007, 1:19:35 in 2014)
Half = 1:42:00 (PB 1:45:57, from 2008, 1:54:27 in 2014 - boo!)
Mara = 3:31:34 (PB 4:14:59, from 2008)
The one thing that quite a few of the PB's have in common is that they're all clustered around my last marathon (VLM 2008). I'm getting ahead of myself I know, but I'm looking forward to moving down through the distances when the marathon is done. I honestly can't imagine me going particularly fast at marathon distance - maybe 9:30/mile as an absolute max. Our 20 next week will be as flat as we can manage it, which might give a bit more of an idea. I don't even know what I'm capable of, and I'm not keen to disrespect the distance. Finish it, have a good time, eat contents of goody bag (including leaflets and samples of hair care products). Done
But I can just about imagine running a half marathon at 8mins/mile. And from there down, it gets a little more believable. It's exciting. And at the very least, it's a way to avoid focusing on marathon training, by thinking of it as a big block of endurance work, in preparation for the shorter stuff. I've enjoyed the tempo runs, so as the weather gets a bit more pleasant, and the super-long runs ease off, it'd be good to replace them with some intervals too. Got to make use of my track card somehow
I've got some races clustered around the marathon already How many of you have PB'd on the way to a marathon, but then screwed up the big one? What's the general consensus?
Bath Half - 1st March - lovely course if the wind's in the right direction.
Sandy 10 - 12th April - ditto, if the hill's in the right direction.
What would also be good is a nice 10k in mid-late May, or June. Bedford parkrun can be my 5k, until one of those comes along. For the 5 miler, there's the Myton Hospice 5 at Draycote Water, or Wellingborough 5, or Long Eaton 5.
I'd better stop right there. I've got to make it off this sofa first.
On the whole, it went pretty well - I'm calling it a bit of an improvement on last week's 16. Sure, it was two miles longer, and those two extra miles felt pretty tough - but I *think* that the bulk of the run felt a bit more comfortable. Our overall pace is a little slower, but we had nine short breaks within the run for various things, including traffic lights, gel/water walks, stretches, and destoning shoes. Take all that out, and the bulk of our run was in the 9:40-10:20/mile bracket. It was a little hillier overall than last week's run (175m of climb, compared to 134m last week). Overall, my HR was a bit better - it was below 135bpm for 14 out of the 18 miles today, but went up to 145-150 for the last three miles. Last week, it was only below 135bpm for 6 out of the 16 miles. I know that's a bit skewed by our walk breaks, but I'm still treating it as a positive.
Here's the run:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/training-log-view.php?id=10975584
One thing that marathon training does is fool you into thinking that the shorter races will be much easier as a result (although right now, the thought of moving my arse off the sofa AT ALL is not a welcome one). Last night I looked up what I need to get to Bronze (60%) this year. Last year I got 59% in three distances, so it'd be good to go at least one better for 2015
Here's the times I need (taken from http://www.fetcheveryone.com/race-standards.php):
Mile = 6:29 (PB 6:02, from 2008)
5k = 22:34 (PB 21:31, from 2008, 22:03 in 2014)
5M = 37:19 (PB 36:23, from 2009, 37:38 in 2014)
10k = 47:00 (PB 46:44, from 2014!!)
10M = 1:16:55 (PB 1:19:02, from 2007, 1:19:35 in 2014)
Half = 1:42:00 (PB 1:45:57, from 2008, 1:54:27 in 2014 - boo!)
Mara = 3:31:34 (PB 4:14:59, from 2008)
The one thing that quite a few of the PB's have in common is that they're all clustered around my last marathon (VLM 2008). I'm getting ahead of myself I know, but I'm looking forward to moving down through the distances when the marathon is done. I honestly can't imagine me going particularly fast at marathon distance - maybe 9:30/mile as an absolute max. Our 20 next week will be as flat as we can manage it, which might give a bit more of an idea. I don't even know what I'm capable of, and I'm not keen to disrespect the distance. Finish it, have a good time, eat contents of goody bag (including leaflets and samples of hair care products). Done
But I can just about imagine running a half marathon at 8mins/mile. And from there down, it gets a little more believable. It's exciting. And at the very least, it's a way to avoid focusing on marathon training, by thinking of it as a big block of endurance work, in preparation for the shorter stuff. I've enjoyed the tempo runs, so as the weather gets a bit more pleasant, and the super-long runs ease off, it'd be good to replace them with some intervals too. Got to make use of my track card somehow
I've got some races clustered around the marathon already
How many of you have PB'd on the way to a marathon, but then screwed up the big one? What's the general consensus? Bath Half - 1st March - lovely course if the wind's in the right direction.
Sandy 10 - 12th April - ditto, if the hill's in the right direction.
What would also be good is a nice 10k in mid-late May, or June. Bedford parkrun can be my 5k, until one of those comes along. For the 5 miler, there's the Myton Hospice 5 at Draycote Water, or Wellingborough 5, or Long Eaton 5.
I'd better stop right there. I've got to make it off this sofa first.
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Well done on your run, I have 18 to do this weekend *gulp* I think havibg races to do after the mara is a great idea, I bet those PBs will tumble!.B.6:39pm, 11th Feb 2015
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Nice reconstrual of marathon training as endurance training for shorter races there, fetchfleecy7:11pm, 11th Feb 2015
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As I've said before - no doubt waving my fist at the same time - your Half PB is 1 second better than mine. Grrr. Grrr.McGoohan8:07pm, 11th Feb 2015
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Apr-Jun 2008 was my purple patch: In the middle pbing at Windermere which was my focus race, but in the month prior pbing at mile and 10k, and in the six weeks after pbing at mile, 10k and 8 miles. Will never happen again, but the marathon training certainly worked for me:)ThorntonRunner8:16pm, 11th Feb 2015
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If you are aiming for a Harrier's bronze badge, best check their website because the times needed are a tiny bit faster.Silvershadow10:26pm, 11th Feb 2015
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Excellent. I'm staring down the barrel of a 16-miler tomorrow...Iron_Mum10:29pm, 11th Feb 2015
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Excellent rout choice, Im planning on almost that loop starting from your mid point next weekRosehip10:50pm, 11th Feb 2015
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I love your training appraisals. We're pretty much at the same stage, I did 17 last week and seemed to experience the same sort of things, with the bulk of the run feeling ok and the last two miles being really tough. Nice reflection on how it might affect your pbs, I'll look forward to that during the rest of the year! At the moment it feels like I've forgotten how to run at any pace other than 10 minute miling or flat out in an interval sessionHippity11:09am, 12th Feb 2015
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sounds to me like you've got this marathon training lark just about spot-on. It's all looking good for the big day. And if you're thinking about a 1:44 HM, then a sub-4 full should be on the cardsflanker12:45pm, 12th Feb 2015
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I should give a proper answer too. I did tons of PBing early 2012, when I was training for Brighton Mara: 5K, 10M, and Half. Then I injured myself doing the mara and there hasn't been a PB since.McGoohan7:07pm, 12th Feb 2015
If you're reading this on a mobile, it'd be great if you could try something out for me, and leave some feedback.
Here's the forum page of the mobile site:
m.fetcheveryone.com
It's a very cut-down version of the main forum pages. You can click the titles to go into threads, you can read and contribute to threads, and you can create threads. I've tried to make everything a bit bigger, to make it easier to navigate with fingers.
If you have a chance to look at this via your mobile, it'd be great if you could leave a comment below. Does it look ok? Are there any fonts that come which mobile you're using, incl. version (e.g. iPhone 5, etc) and maybe the browser, if it's not the default one that comes with the phone. If you can upload a screenshot to the gallery, that'd also be very useful.
If you can help me sort out the main issues, and get it working reasonably well, I can move on to the other sections of the site.
#takforkaffe
Here's the forum page of the mobile site:
m.fetcheveryone.com
It's a very cut-down version of the main forum pages. You can click the titles to go into threads, you can read and contribute to threads, and you can create threads. I've tried to make everything a bit bigger, to make it easier to navigate with fingers.
If you have a chance to look at this via your mobile, it'd be great if you could leave a comment below. Does it look ok? Are there any fonts that come which mobile you're using, incl. version (e.g. iPhone 5, etc) and maybe the browser, if it's not the default one that comes with the phone. If you can upload a screenshot to the gallery, that'd also be very useful.
If you can help me sort out the main issues, and get it working reasonably well, I can move on to the other sections of the site.
#takforkaffe
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It works just fine on my old iPhone 4. But then so does the main website so that isn't surprising.Winded5:03pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Thanks W. Would you say it's an easier experience?fetcheveryone5:04pm, 10th Feb 2015
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One thing is that zoom text to fit on my phone (Android 4.0.3, HTC default browser. Same with Firefox tho) means the avatars drop off the left, so I have to keep scrolling to see who posted each line. That's true with the standard site too though. I find serif fonts harder to read than san serif. But generally smaller, simpler etc. is better yip. Nice one.HappyG(rrr) G5:17pm, 10th Feb 2015
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It looks very clean - though I'm not sure I like the bold font for the thread titles and it's odd seeing in a serif font as the full version of the site has a sans serif font (whether on my PC or my phone). But it's much more navigable without all the header information, much easier when you can see more thread titles on one page. I'd like to have the pin back, to remind me which threads I'm following.sallykate5:17pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Works fine on iPhone5 under Chrome. I think the font is different (and not as nice), also I like to be able to see my pinned threads and new entries to my pin threads, would this be possible to incorporate?chunkywizard5:18pm, 10th Feb 2015
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PS I was looking at it on iPhone 6+sallykate5:18pm, 10th Feb 2015
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I've gone back to Arial - I thought I'd make a break for it with the serif font, but it was a close call.fetcheveryone
H(G) - would you like to see the font a bit bigger on forum posts?
SK - the pin is on the thread list, it's just tiny by comparison to the text.
CW - I *can* add the favourite threads list, *but* at the moment, I'm trying to keep this version simple.5:22pm, 10th Feb 2015 -
I don't see the pin at all, even if I zoom in massivelysallykate5:30pm, 10th Feb 2015
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D'oh - I wasn't logged in! So now I see it but also all the header info - which I liked not seeing before I logged in. Could all that either be excluded or truncated?sallykate5:40pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Fine. Faves on there too though, please!Windsor Wool5:40pm, 10th Feb 2015
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SK - what header info?fetcheveryone
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I mean all the thread information. I'll post a pic.sallykate5:50pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Easier? I don't think it is easier for me but it might be easier for someone not used to the site. More obvious perhaps.Winded5:55pm, 10th Feb 2015
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It looks ok, I'm not a fan of the font on the forum list page either but might just be what I'm used to. I like the thread page font though, nice and clear (HappyG needs new glasses :)) Missing the watched threads...Given the speed some threads move its essential to know how many hundreds of posts you've missed so you know to go for a wee and make a cup of tea firstfleecy The menu page looks a bit weird (unfinished presumably?) It's not obvious how to go to the home page, I pressed the icon on the top right hand corner and got to the home page but had logged myself out!7:00pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Works fine for me on my moto g using chromestuart little7:19pm, 10th Feb 2015
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My advice would be to double the pixel height of the article links and put padding around the pagination at the bottom.. Basically make it all bigger..Pooley8:08pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Might be just my phone, but the text on forum posts is huge! Easy enough for me to zoom out though.SPR8:41pm, 10th Feb 2015
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iPhone 5S: the black bar near the top of the page does not scroll with the rest of the page. It looks rather odd.Longwayround [LWR]8:52pm, 10th Feb 2015
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I've uploaded two screen grabs into my gallery (taken on Nokia Windows phone, I think on IE?).Duchess
The first one is showing the bar (Search if you're not logged in, shortcuts if you are) and I find it a bit intrusive that it sits in the same place on the screen even as you scroll so blocks off part of the page. I think I'd prefer to have to scroll up to this, or have it pinned to the very top rather than in the middle of the screen.
Second one shows how easy it is to swipe over to the empty space to the right which I don't think you meant to have? But it's there I think because I still have the header piece about d2 being MOTM which is wider than the column for the forum list.
In general I like how clean it is, although I'd probably stick to the browser view because my phone copes well with the full-fat version of the site. It seemed a bit slower to render as well, although that might be subjective. Something that doesn't consume data allowances would be good, if not for my avoidance of distraction when I'm supposed to be working!10:00pm, 10th Feb 2015 -
The black bar should be in a fixed position at the very top. Would be great to have screenshots of all oddities.fetcheveryone10:16pm, 10th Feb 2015
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My screenshots aren't jpg so can't upload them. On my phone the text is only huge in portrait mode.SPR
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Fetch, I think the bar is because of the D2 header as well. The bar is in the right place when I open the page, but because of the header that isn't at the top. It then *sticks* in that position as I scroll.Duchess10:54pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Looks great. I like the font. Navigation is much easier. The log in box is still a bit fiddly. Thanks fetch. Iphone5boulders6:04am, 11th Feb 2015
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Erm. I'm on a Blackberry. Using whatever browser comes loaded. It's exactly the same as always.....LindsD
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Shit sorry. Just realised what a numpty I am. Please ignore previous comment.LindsD9:37am, 11th Feb 2015
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Right. I like it. Except the fixed black bar takes up loads of the (very small) screen. I'd rather have it up at the top to scroll up to if I need it. Thank you!LindsD9:42am, 11th Feb 2015
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Very easy to navigate. All the main bases covered. Using an iPhone 6 so can zoom as needed. Fits the screen far better than just going in through Safari.JuliaD11:05pm, 11th Feb 2015
Well, here's a thing.
You can now look at the all-time leaderboard for most running races. Look out for the new trophy graphic on the right-hand-side of race listings.
For example, here's the leaderboard for Bath Half, with Marigold sitting pretty at the top:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/race-leaderboard.php?id=102294
You can sort the main table by time (the default), or by WAVA - just click the column titles.
I've colour coded the gender-based positioning, to make it a bit clearer - and to avoid the usual stereotype, the men are in pink, and the women are in yellow. Take that, gender-stereotyping!
There are also some summary stats that show you the number of Fetchies that have recorded a time at the race, and the number of PB's and SB's that have happened there. As it stands, the PB/SB stats should be taken with a pinch of salt, because they don't take into account how many previous attempts the runners have made at that distance. So for example, lots of first-timers might get VLM PB's, and make the numbers look great. I'm looking into a better way to measure this.
Another limitation to mention - it's based on exact matches of the race name. So if it's 'Wokingham Half Marathon' one year, and 'Wokey Half' the next, it won't pick up the variations. Stuff like hyphens, race year, sponsors name, etc, will all make this problem happen. If you spot a problem like this, send me some feedback.
No running for me today. Last week, we both ran the day before our 16, and it may well have contributed to it feeling tough. As we've stepped up to 12 and 14, we've always felt like there's been a bit of adaptation i.e. when passing 10 miles on our 12, we felt ok; when passing 12 on our 14, we felt ok. On our 16, we felt pretty rough from about 11 onwards I'd say. It's always hard to strip away all the variables, but taking a rest day beforehand seems to make a lot of sense. Followers of my vLog may be pleased to know that my left nipple has grown back
Onwards!
You can now look at the all-time leaderboard for most running races. Look out for the new trophy graphic on the right-hand-side of race listings.
For example, here's the leaderboard for Bath Half, with Marigold sitting pretty at the top:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/race-leaderboard.php?id=102294
You can sort the main table by time (the default), or by WAVA - just click the column titles.
I've colour coded the gender-based positioning, to make it a bit clearer - and to avoid the usual stereotype, the men are in pink, and the women are in yellow. Take that, gender-stereotyping!
There are also some summary stats that show you the number of Fetchies that have recorded a time at the race, and the number of PB's and SB's that have happened there. As it stands, the PB/SB stats should be taken with a pinch of salt, because they don't take into account how many previous attempts the runners have made at that distance. So for example, lots of first-timers might get VLM PB's, and make the numbers look great. I'm looking into a better way to measure this.
Another limitation to mention - it's based on exact matches of the race name. So if it's 'Wokingham Half Marathon' one year, and 'Wokey Half' the next, it won't pick up the variations. Stuff like hyphens, race year, sponsors name, etc, will all make this problem happen. If you spot a problem like this, send me some feedback.
No running for me today. Last week, we both ran the day before our 16, and it may well have contributed to it feeling tough. As we've stepped up to 12 and 14, we've always felt like there's been a bit of adaptation i.e. when passing 10 miles on our 12, we felt ok; when passing 12 on our 14, we felt ok. On our 16, we felt pretty rough from about 11 onwards I'd say. It's always hard to strip away all the variables, but taking a rest day beforehand seems to make a lot of sense. Followers of my vLog may be pleased to know that my left nipple has grown back
Onwards!
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You mean you've been doing some *work* as well as marathon training? No wonder you're tired.Helegant12:28pm, 10th Feb 2015
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do I just click on the trophy? - only I just tried it for st neots half and nothing happenedHellsBells12:54pm, 10th Feb 2015
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forget that - i'm blind!HellsBells12:54pm, 10th Feb 2015
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Liking that feature. Any chance it could work for parkruns?JamieKai *chameleon*8:14pm, 10th Feb 2015
We need new batteries for our door bell. The 'Ding' is still crisp and intrusive, but the 'Dong' is a poor follow-up.
Here's the weekly training vLog, including snow, hot water bottles, an indecisive tiger, a dog running in circles, some beginners, and a word from our new sponsor
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
4 miles this morning, with Katie and the dog - all felt pretty good, but I'm going through a knackered phase now. Maybe scrambled eggs and bacon for lunch takes quite a bit of afternoon digesting.
Columbia are sending me some new daps I'm very excited about this!
Here's the weekly training vLog, including snow, hot water bottles, an indecisive tiger, a dog running in circles, some beginners, and a word from our new sponsor
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/vlog
4 miles this morning, with Katie and the dog - all felt pretty good, but I'm going through a knackered phase now. Maybe scrambled eggs and bacon for lunch takes quite a bit of afternoon digesting.
Columbia are sending me some new daps
I'm very excited about this!
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Nice moves by Katiefleecy And, er, nice strap-on...
I never quite trust doorbells.5:03pm, 9th Feb 2015 -
LOL at KatieMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I hope that wasn't pheasant shooting as I believe the season ended on 1st Feb5:12pm, 9th Feb 2015
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It sounds more like a spider or some accumulated dust in the mechanism than a new battery to me. Otherwise the ding would have degraded in the same way as the dong - probably anyway.Winded6:15pm, 9th Feb 2015
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Is the dong just sulking because it's always playing second fiddle to the ding? I'm sure my friend's one used to play Greensleeves, or something similar - although I may be getting it mixed up with the ice cream van.HowFar?6:20pm, 9th Feb 2015
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Some 'cross pollination' marketing with the Friday cartoon and the sponsor? I think the loud bangs could be a gas powered pigeon scarer.Watford Wobble10:47am, 10th Feb 2015
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It sounds as if you battery is a printer not a marathon runner and is using all it's energy for the ding. More training required. Isn't 'tired' a permanent state of affairs for marathon trainees at this stage?Helegant12:14pm, 10th Feb 2015
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of course I meant 'sprinter' - doh!Helegant12:27pm, 10th Feb 2015
There's a 16 mile 50mph average speed camera thing on the M1 at the moment. How come some people sail through it at whatever pace they choose? Are they completely unaware, or are they in some sort of secret gang?
Today the boy and I ran with some of the beginners, which was nice. He may even be happy to repeat the experience Maybe.
We sat round a lot, did a bit of homework (ordering decimals), smashed some wood up with a hammer in the back garden and made swords, watched You've Been Framed, ate pancakes and muffins, and not a lot else really.
This evening, after a lovely tea, we watched Hobbit 2: Citizens on Patrol, and now it's now. TTFN.
Today the boy and I ran with some of the beginners, which was nice. He may even be happy to repeat the experience
Maybe. We sat round a lot, did a bit of homework (ordering decimals), smashed some wood up with a hammer in the back garden and made swords, watched You've Been Framed, ate pancakes and muffins, and not a lot else really.
This evening, after a lovely tea, we watched Hobbit 2: Citizens on Patrol, and now it's now. TTFN.
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Is that the one where Hightower takes on Sauron?McGoohan10:41pm, 8th Feb 2015
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How old is the boy, that was Joe's homework last week?Diogenes10:44pm, 8th Feb 2015
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I haven't managed to work out the speed limit thing either. Your house sounds like fun.Helegant10:52pm, 8th Feb 2015
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I thought exactly the same about the speed camera thing on the M1 near us. Then it was in the news about how many thousands they had fined. I think some people see someone flying through and think they must be ok to do the same.Dodgem7:56am, 9th Feb 2015
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Maybe they slow down to 30 mph later on?! In fact that can be the boy's next homework: If a car travels at 80mph for 1 mile in a 2 mile 50 mph average speed check; how fast do they have to travel for the remainder of the zone to avoid a fine? And how much of a dick is the driver?Waveydavey10:12am, 9th Feb 2015
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There seems to be a lot of latitude on the limits on average speed camera zones. I'm always amused* at the ones who break hard down to the limit before every camera. The word average obviously escapes themflanker
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Same on the M3 on my commute too. I'd love to know if/how they get away with it.Hendo1:57pm, 9th Feb 2015
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Maybe it's a fine for stupidity? In which case, bring it onfleecy5:04pm, 9th Feb 2015
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And my parents got done by one once, despite them being the world's slowwwwest drivers. So yes, a tax on stupidity. Or being unobservant!fleecy5:05pm, 9th Feb 2015
As you might know, I like looking at all the data from the training log, trying to find patterns and useful insights into training.
One of the problems this exercise has always faced is the fact that people race for all sorts of reasons, and not always for the purposes of beating a time.
So to help clear a path through the murky water, I've put together a simple tick list, whereby you can indicate which races you tried to PB in:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/pbattempt.php
If you could fill it in, and *ALSO* push other people on your favourite threads to do the same, we should hopefully get a useful set of data.
Rugby = damnit. But on the upside, I watched the boy playing this morning, and he was flinging himself around like a lunatic. Enjoy your time in the sun England
One of the problems this exercise has always faced is the fact that people race for all sorts of reasons, and not always for the purposes of beating a time.
So to help clear a path through the murky water, I've put together a simple tick list, whereby you can indicate which races you tried to PB in:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/pbattempt.php
If you could fill it in, and *ALSO* push other people on your favourite threads to do the same, we should hopefully get a useful set of data.
Rugby = damnit. But on the upside, I watched the boy playing this morning, and he was flinging himself around like a lunatic. Enjoy your time in the sun England
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Done, it seems like most times I've tried to pb, I haveDiogenes3:21pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Done.westmoors3:24pm, 7th Feb 2015
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RugbyAutumnleaves Mr AL in a right grump last night. He is going to the same match you are in a few weeks so fingers are crossed.3:38pm, 7th Feb 2015
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I'm stuck doing this. Do I click to say it was a PB attempt, or do I click if it's not a PB attempt? And if I've clicked by accident I can't unclick.JamieKai *chameleon*
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You click if it is.fetcheveryone3:56pm, 7th Feb 2015
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What's a PB?-x-x-4:05pm, 7th Feb 2015
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I've clicked two by accident (using my phone) and can't seem to unclick!.B.4:32pm, 7th Feb 2015
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I've clicked two by accident (using my phone) and can't seem to unclick!.B.4:34pm, 7th Feb 2015
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done it but clicked on the parkrun one by mistake (was not a PB attempt by any stretch of the imaginaion)DocM4:57pm, 7th Feb 2015
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I've done it - and guess what, the ones where I was trying for a PB were almost all unsuccessful; the PBs came when I was more relaxed. Lesson for me there.LazyDaisy
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The rugby was ace:)Jono.5:59pm, 7th Feb 2015
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What happens about those races which show as a PB on Fetch, but actually are not PBs because I've run faster in races that aren't on Fetch? I'm "old" and have been running for a very long time ;-)!Flatlander6:06pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Will this be an added feature on future racesNight-owl6:15pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Are Wales a side of experienced guys on the wane, whereas England have been through that over the last few years and are now a side of young kids on the rise?flanker6:41pm, 7th Feb 2015
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DoneMrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)8:04pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Done. I noticed loads of my XC races are on there even though they are marked as non-PB in the race listingsSPR8:58pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Done.alpenrose9:15pm, 7th Feb 2015
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You can turn them back off again now, should you need to.fetcheveryone10:55pm, 7th Feb 2015
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Thanks Fetch!.B.8:36am, 8th Feb 2015
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Done. It would seem that I try to PB a lot!Bintmcskint11:55am, 8th Feb 2015
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The country you live in did quite well in the rugby!Winded
The PB thing requires that every race is entered as a race rather than just as a run which I suspect is one more weakness in the data.2:02pm, 8th Feb 2015 -
Done, I've put no in the XC races, not because I wasn't running as hard as I possibly could, but because I had zero chance of PBing in those races compared with a road course.anthonyj896:00pm, 8th Feb 2015
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Great game, shame about result. Watching Scotland was depressing. Sunday will probably be no better. Do you ever come up to watch Wales at Murrayfield? Shout if you do - there's a bit of Fetchie massive heading there after a Fetch Mile at a nearby track first, and cayke, of course!HappyG(rrr) G12:58pm, 9th Feb 2015
Beginners this morning I'd better say nice things about them, because it seems they read my blog But it's easy to say nice stuff really, because they're all putting in lots of effort. Our run-walk plan now has two three minute chunks of running in it, and they seem to be very cheerful about the whole thing. If you've ever thought about leading a group of noobs, I'd say an emphatic "do it"
Home for a bit, then time for me to do my tempo run, so I trotted off to the canal path.
The water was full of large shards of ice that had reformed to make one amazing sheet that made it all look so still. In the first mile, I saw a swan, standing on it - then the ice broke under it, and it plopped into the water. At first I thought it had just embarrassed itself, but as I got closer, I realised that it was breaking a path. I've seen swan paths before now, but never seen one actually do it. After landing back in the water, it started thrusting its chest at the ice ahead, cracking it and mashing it with its beak. It's doubled the list of things that I know a swan can break:
1) a mans arm
2) ice
The run was good Here's how my tempo runs have been progressing, since I started doing them:
Week 1 [3 miles] = 7:46, 7:38, 7:53 (average = 7:46)
Week 2 [3 miles] = 7:39, 7:38, 7:44 (average = 7:40)
Week 3 [3.86 miles] = 7:35, 7:31, 7:26, [7:26] (average = 7:30)
Week 4 = CUTBACK WEEK
Week 5 [4 miles] = 7:27, 7:24, 7:26, 7:18 (average = 7:24)
My HR was higher this week though, perhaps because I pushed it from the start, or possibly because it followed on the heels of a 16, rather than a 14. My plan for the rest of the month is to gradually increase the distance of the tempo run, and I keep saying that I will slow down as I do that (7:40 is where I need to be with them). As it stands, that's the fastest 4 miles I've *ever* run, outside of my 5 mile PB (7:14/mile), which was June 2009, and the downhill 10k at Aberdare - so the signs are good. Speaking of which, the 16 this week is also the longest I've run since VLM 2008 I'm only really doing tempo runs at the moment to make marathon pace feel easier, but it's left me feeling quite optimistic about what I can do off the back of marathon training, with enough duct tape and WD40.
I don't mean to be bragging about getting a bit faster, but I'm genuinely pleased. The bit I like the best though is that it backs up the idea that you don't need to do all your miles faster, in order to get faster [even if it's only my own personal faster]. Since the start of the year, I've run 131 miles, which is in itself a fairly big increase - but only 16 of those (12%) have been at tempo/fast pace. The other 115 come in at just under 10mins/mile.
Looking forward to tonight's match It's a good job they've left the roof off, otherwise the sospan might boil over. I hope we win, but it's impossible to be confident when playing England. Optimistic, yes definitely. Breathlessly so.
I'd better say nice things about them, because it seems they read my blog But it's easy to say nice stuff really, because they're all putting in lots of effort. Our run-walk plan now has two three minute chunks of running in it, and they seem to be very cheerful about the whole thing. If you've ever thought about leading a group of noobs, I'd say an emphatic "do it" Home for a bit, then time for me to do my tempo run, so I trotted off to the canal path.
The water was full of large shards of ice that had reformed to make one amazing sheet that made it all look so still. In the first mile, I saw a swan, standing on it - then the ice broke under it, and it plopped into the water. At first I thought it had just embarrassed itself, but as I got closer, I realised that it was breaking a path. I've seen swan paths before now, but never seen one actually do it. After landing back in the water, it started thrusting its chest at the ice ahead, cracking it and mashing it with its beak. It's doubled the list of things that I know a swan can break:
1) a mans arm
2) ice
The run was good
Here's how my tempo runs have been progressing, since I started doing them: Week 1 [3 miles] = 7:46, 7:38, 7:53 (average = 7:46)
Week 2 [3 miles] = 7:39, 7:38, 7:44 (average = 7:40)
Week 3 [3.86 miles] = 7:35, 7:31, 7:26, [7:26] (average = 7:30)
Week 4 = CUTBACK WEEK
Week 5 [4 miles] = 7:27, 7:24, 7:26, 7:18 (average = 7:24)
My HR was higher this week though, perhaps because I pushed it from the start, or possibly because it followed on the heels of a 16, rather than a 14. My plan for the rest of the month is to gradually increase the distance of the tempo run, and I keep saying that I will slow down as I do that (7:40 is where I need to be with them). As it stands, that's the fastest 4 miles I've *ever* run, outside of my 5 mile PB (7:14/mile), which was June 2009, and the downhill 10k at Aberdare - so the signs are good. Speaking of which, the 16 this week is also the longest I've run since VLM 2008
I'm only really doing tempo runs at the moment to make marathon pace feel easier, but it's left me feeling quite optimistic about what I can do off the back of marathon training, with enough duct tape and WD40. I don't mean to be bragging about getting a bit faster, but I'm genuinely pleased. The bit I like the best though is that it backs up the idea that you don't need to do all your miles faster, in order to get faster [even if it's only my own personal faster]. Since the start of the year, I've run 131 miles, which is in itself a fairly big increase - but only 16 of those (12%) have been at tempo/fast pace. The other 115 come in at just under 10mins/mile.
Looking forward to tonight's match
It's a good job they've left the roof off, otherwise the sospan might boil over. I hope we win, but it's impossible to be confident when playing England. Optimistic, yes definitely. Breathlessly so.
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running faster plus consistency is the key to improvements, pity I'm not practicing either just nowIrontubs1:53pm, 6th Feb 2015
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I'm no expert, but I'd be surprised if you weren't getting faster just as you are getting stronger - it must be satisfying. I like what the swan was doing, but then I like swans.Helegant2:03pm, 6th Feb 2015
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a swan can also break your heartMcGoohan2:06pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Well done on the pb :-). Swan paths, hmm. I've seen an embarrassed swan, it slipped on the ice and had quite a job getting to its feet.Dvorak2:08pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Love the swan story. Great running and improvement for you - you've already run more than a quarter of my year's target!alpenrose2:15pm, 6th Feb 2015
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I once went through the NHS stats on swan attacks. Not one resulted in a broken arm.Argie2:17pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Swans are scary buggers, I'd say they are more likely to break your spiritfleecy Great training there fetch, very focused and consistent! And hooray for your beginners, I hope they're doing their homework?2:53pm, 6th Feb 2015
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That's one of the main reasons for tempo runs - making MP feel easy. I'm also a big believer in train slow, race fast. Most of my training for a 3:15 will be slower than 10mm.flanker3:06pm, 6th Feb 2015
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I didn't know swans did that; really interestingD24:12pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Great progress on your tempo runs.B. I'd like to see a swan do that!5:12pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Swans are fab, and your training isn't too shabby eitherCorrah Great work.7:23pm, 6th Feb 2015
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Great running!:)Garfield8:42pm, 6th Feb 2015
I overcame the cake-based tum soreness in time for us to go to Bedford Pavilion Supper Club yesterday evening. It was nice - a rustic sort of atmosphere - two long tables, so you end up chatting to the people you're sitting next to. We knew our fellow diners, so it was very chatty. The meal was a huge lasagne, with two slices of garlic baguette, and a salad laced with anchovies, bacon and cheese. I also had a can of coke. Being my first major meal since the 16, I absolutely inhaled it. Do you know where this is going, reader? Do you want to punch me?
We had a nice giggly time walking back through the park by torchlight, and we were all in quite high spirits at bed time - but my tum decided that the earlier business was unfinished, so I spent timeless wandering twisting sleepless hours with my knees up to my chest, and a dull throbbing in my guts. The dog started woofing to go out just before 4am, but that turned out to be a bit of a blessing. Without wanting to overshare, we both got what we needed.
So today I've been feeling a tiny bit battered still, but we had a nice dog walk this morning (still picking the burrs out of the dog's fur though). In work terms, dear Fetchies, I've been a bit less than productive, with my chief contribution being to pull some images together on the 'Games' page, to make it look a bit more interesting: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/games.php . I have also been doing some more work on the mobile site, although you might not notice any major differences just now.
School pickup was a bit early today, as the kids were doing a group dance / sing to 'Let It Go'. My boy took a few choruses before letting it go, but he was flinging his arms around with everyone else by the end, and he was near enough to the fake snow machine to get some on him. Homophones homework tonight - he had to make up a paragraph using as many as he could. He sore a girl with a flour in her hare. Then spellings. Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
Beginners group tomorrow (no ice, thank goodness), and then (all being well) I'm aiming to fit in my tempo run for this week It'll be my third and last session of the week, but will also take me up to about 36 miles in the last 7 days, which will very much do for now, thank you.
My sister got 70% in her psychology essay - she's gonna take the world by storm
We had a nice giggly time walking back through the park by torchlight, and we were all in quite high spirits at bed time - but my tum decided that the earlier business was unfinished, so I spent timeless wandering twisting sleepless hours with my knees up to my chest, and a dull throbbing in my guts. The dog started woofing to go out just before 4am, but that turned out to be a bit of a blessing. Without wanting to overshare, we both got what we needed.
So today I've been feeling a tiny bit battered still, but we had a nice dog walk this morning (still picking the burrs out of the dog's fur though). In work terms, dear Fetchies, I've been a bit less than productive, with my chief contribution being to pull some images together on the 'Games' page, to make it look a bit more interesting: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/games.php . I have also been doing some more work on the mobile site, although you might not notice any major differences just now.
School pickup was a bit early today, as the kids were doing a group dance / sing to 'Let It Go'. My boy took a few choruses before letting it go, but he was flinging his arms around with everyone else by the end, and he was near enough to the fake snow machine to get some on him. Homophones homework tonight - he had to make up a paragraph using as many as he could. He sore a girl with a flour in her hare. Then spellings. Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants.
Beginners group tomorrow (no ice, thank goodness), and then (all being well) I'm aiming to fit in my tempo run for this week
It'll be my third and last session of the week, but will also take me up to about 36 miles in the last 7 days, which will very much do for now, thank you. My sister got 70% in her psychology essay - she's gonna take the world by storm
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Obviously a family trait!D210:26pm, 5th Feb 2015
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ds2's version was Big Elephants Can't Always Use Small Entrances, which makes for a slightly easier to remember imagefleecy10:29pm, 5th Feb 2015
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I had a girl who wrote ' becaule' in her spellings because she got a bit confused with her mnemonic adjectives.HowFar?10:30pm, 5th Feb 2015
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We just had big elephants are ugly for beautiful, which in hindsight is both rather nasty and a bit ironicIrontubs8:06am, 6th Feb 2015
I did get a sore stomach yesterday evening I was chaining hot water bottles until the pain finally subsided around bed time.
This morning I woke up feeling pretty good, just a bit tired - and got into my kit for our 16 miler.
The first four miles absolutely whizzed by, but then we turned into the northerly wind, and a few unforgiving hills, and it turned into a bit of a struggle - certainly felt like harder going than the 14 from 2 weeks ago. We'd both run yesterday, and I think that played quite a part in taking a bit of the spring out of our legs.
That said, the pace was pretty good, and the HR stats look a little bit more relaxed than last time, which is a good sign.
I started off trying to do the recovery sensibly, with just some chocolate milk to begin with, but then made the mistake of remembering that we'd planned to go to the coffee shop. So I ended up shovelling a slice of Victoria sponge down my face. Please look away now if you're easily offended, or one of my parents.
TW*T!
I'm now here with a hot water bottle clamped to my stomach, and a twisted knot of discomfort in my stomach.
Lessons:
1) that rule about making sure you're well rested before a long run? Follow it.
2) Cake (with regret, but especially with about a litre of fresh cream) is not the best way to help my body refuel.
In some much better news, my LiRF article is on the Guardian website today
theguardian.com
I was chaining hot water bottles until the pain finally subsided around bed time. This morning I woke up feeling pretty good, just a bit tired - and got into my kit for our 16 miler.
The first four miles absolutely whizzed by, but then we turned into the northerly wind, and a few unforgiving hills, and it turned into a bit of a struggle - certainly felt like harder going than the 14 from 2 weeks ago. We'd both run yesterday, and I think that played quite a part in taking a bit of the spring out of our legs.
That said, the pace was pretty good, and the HR stats look a little bit more relaxed than last time, which is a good sign.
I started off trying to do the recovery sensibly, with just some chocolate milk to begin with, but then made the mistake of remembering that we'd planned to go to the coffee shop. So I ended up shovelling a slice of Victoria sponge down my face. Please look away now if you're easily offended, or one of my parents.
TW*T!
I'm now here with a hot water bottle clamped to my stomach, and a twisted knot of discomfort in my stomach.
Lessons:
1) that rule about making sure you're well rested before a long run? Follow it.
2) Cake (with regret, but especially with about a litre of fresh cream) is not the best way to help my body refuel.
In some much better news, my LiRF article is on the Guardian website today
theguardian.com
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Are you sure it's the cake and not just the cream... maybe worth trying a cream-less cake as your choice of recovery food next time?Nelly3:53pm, 4th Feb 2015
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That is a shame you deserved a treat after that many miles. I was well impressed to see you in the Guardian!D23:55pm, 4th Feb 2015
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Flapjacksoldbiddy read The Grauniad 5:49pm, 4th Feb 2015
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Thanks everybody. Feeling much better nowfetcheveryone6:00pm, 4th Feb 2015
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You need to improve your training. With a proper training plan it's perfectly possible to eat creamy cake post long run. I have the scales to prove it.flanker11:44pm, 4th Feb 2015
Well... I *was* going to do a tempo run today, honest, but then everything got covered in snow. So the plans have changed - I went out and did an easy-paced 5 miler, then tomorrow we'll do our 16 miler (was going to be Thursday), giving me the possibility of doing my tempo run on Friday, after I've led my beginners group.
I've made the mistake of throwing food into my face at break-face speed, since running - I hope I won't pay the price later :-/
This morning I did some work to integrate the Checkpoints local leaderboard into the rest of the game - you should be able to see your local board by going here:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/checkpoints
The rectangle on the map outlines all the checkpoints that contribute to that particular leaderboard. You should see your local Fetchies on the list, and if you're on the list, you should be highlighted. The leaderboards don't show anonymous players btw. You can also investigate other areas - just type the name of the place you want to look at. The Regent's Park square is quite pretty, and I'm the
This afternoon, I spent a couple of hours working on the mobile site. If (and only if) you're willing to be kind, you can have a look at it here:
m.fetcheveryone.com
(just in case that link gets obscured, it's m.fetcheveryone.com)
You won't notice a massive difference - the last few hours have been purely about trimming down the header, and shoehorning the menu into those three little horizontal stripes in the top left corner. None of it is especially pretty right now
Once I get the header and menu into a decent state, I'll be tackling individual page layouts. If you look at the forum, you can see I've made a start on simplifying the list of threads. The idea is to work through the pages (forum, training, race listings, gallery, blogs etc), starting with the most-used (tempered slightly by a bit of personal preference regarding what I feel like doing, with a dash of 'what's easiest', and a teaspoon of 'meh').
I'm off now to cook some tea, and read my book, and call my boy, and cwch my wife, and all that good stuff.
Pip pip.
OMGwlad, I keep remembering that the Six Nations starts this Friday! V. excited about that.
I've made the mistake of throwing food into my face at break-face speed, since running - I hope I won't pay the price later :-/
This morning I did some work to integrate the Checkpoints local leaderboard into the rest of the game - you should be able to see your local board by going here:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/checkpoints
The rectangle on the map outlines all the checkpoints that contribute to that particular leaderboard. You should see your local Fetchies on the list, and if you're on the list, you should be highlighted. The leaderboards don't show anonymous players btw. You can also investigate other areas - just type the name of the place you want to look at. The Regent's Park square is quite pretty, and I'm the
This afternoon, I spent a couple of hours working on the mobile site. If (and only if) you're willing to be kind, you can have a look at it here:
m.fetcheveryone.com
(just in case that link gets obscured, it's m.fetcheveryone.com)
You won't notice a massive difference - the last few hours have been purely about trimming down the header, and shoehorning the menu into those three little horizontal stripes in the top left corner. None of it is especially pretty right now
Once I get the header and menu into a decent state, I'll be tackling individual page layouts. If you look at the forum, you can see I've made a start on simplifying the list of threads. The idea is to work through the pages (forum, training, race listings, gallery, blogs etc), starting with the most-used (tempered slightly by a bit of personal preference regarding what I feel like doing, with a dash of 'what's easiest', and a teaspoon of 'meh').
I'm off now to cook some tea, and read my book, and call my boy, and cwch my wife, and all that good stuff.
Pip pip.
OMGwlad, I keep remembering that the Six Nations starts this Friday!
V. excited about that.
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Firefox on Android (don't know what version, will check) gave me hoooge fonts. Didn't realise it had redirected me to m.fetcheveryone.com (I don't usually use Firefox on my phone, but I get an error trying upload photos on the native android browser - says "only jpgs..." when they are jpgs. Works fine on other browsers. Dunno) Anyhoo, let me know if you need/want more info about it.HappyG(rrr) G5:31pm, 3rd Feb 2015
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That's weird - I haven't told it to redirect anyone - maybe it's trying to be smart. I might come back to you for screenshots and the like. Nice one, tafetcheveryone5:33pm, 3rd Feb 2015
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Sorry, no, the redirect is my phone (most phones? or mobile browsers?) There's a setting in Chrome, Firefox and the native one for "Use desktop version of site" or something, which by default is not checked, so it will look for an "m.xxx.com" version, if available (don't know exactly how?). So I got m.fetcheveryone.com and couldn't work out why it behaved differently to my other browser (which is set to show desktop only). Phew!HappyG(rrr) G5:49pm, 3rd Feb 2015
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I always get that problem with uploading jpgs from my phone (android also), I have to tweet them into the galleryDiogenes5:57pm, 3rd Feb 2015
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Yep, Friday is the 6 Nations final. Also v excited, assuming we have enough players left to make a team from!flanker11:47pm, 3rd Feb 2015
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Ooh will look at the mobile site!sallykate10:26am, 4th Feb 2015
Sorry for everyone who didn't get their questions answered, and sorry to everyone who got a lame answer. If you've got any more Q's for me to A, stick them in the blog comments.
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Sooooooooooo..... six miles today, putting me up to 20 for the week. Win
Run aside, it's been a bit of a lazy one today. I woke up early, let the dog out, brought tea and toast back to bed, and clung on to it for as long as possible
The 16 on Thursday is feeling a bit daunting at the moment, but I know that it'll be ok. A new route is needed
By the way, if you're up for running over 400 miles in February, possibly snapping yourself irreparably in the process, you might want to sign up for this: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/ruyd - but it's your own fault if you do.
Showered, walked the pooches, got veg and pudding and petrol from the supermarket. And now I'm here, semi-comatose on the sofa. I *have* been playing around with those jazzy menus that you see on mobile sites (you press the little menu button, and it slides in from the side). I've worked out what I'm aiming to do this week, and I've set aside a big chunk of time to work on the mobile site. Let's call it my Big February Project
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Run aside, it's been a bit of a lazy one today. I woke up early, let the dog out, brought tea and toast back to bed, and clung on to it for as long as possible
The 16 on Thursday is feeling a bit daunting at the moment, but I know that it'll be ok. A new route is needed
By the way, if you're up for running over 400 miles in February, possibly snapping yourself irreparably in the process, you might want to sign up for this: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/ruyd - but it's your own fault if you do.
Showered, walked the pooches, got veg and pudding and petrol from the supermarket. And now I'm here, semi-comatose on the sofa. I *have* been playing around with those jazzy menus that you see on mobile sites (you press the little menu button, and it slides in from the side). I've worked out what I'm aiming to do this week, and I've set aside a big chunk of time to work on the mobile site. Let's call it my Big February Project
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Yay for a mobile siteflanker (I'm considering a mobile fetchpoint app if the data can be easily surfaced).6:44pm, 1st Feb 2015
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June (8)
Last Big Swim
I can't be the only one...
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May (17)
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April (10)
Centurion Safari!
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And that was February
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What does Points make?
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Have a play with the monthly infographic
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Introducing Fetch Premium
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Advance warning for stalkers!
I'm back (and the Fetch LS, SS and NS shirts preorder is open)
Attention Fitbit Users
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Treasure Hunt Day 1 - the best gift
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Who Am I? (Solved, thanks) And How Am I?
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12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt
Chewie, we’re home!
A few pics from the Foffice :-)
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Yesvember - Day #30 (and Festive Fetch Calendar Eve!)
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You'd better watch out... (plus Yesvember Day #28)
Brace Yourself (and there's one spare bobble hat!) and Yesvember - Day #26
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Training Graph Manager - usability update (Yesvember Day #23)
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Oh, and... it's Yesvember - Day #9
Another bit of the internet fenced off
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The Les Mis effect
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October gives way to Yesvember!
Anyone fancy a threeway?
More thoughts on races
Racing, post-pandemic
Contracts exchanged!
Competition Time!
Last call for Flobble Hats
A record year for swimming?
Woburn Lido
Order your Bobble Hat! If you like.
I appear to have entered a race! (plus new Garmin import queueing system)
Eric the Eel
Get your hobbit on
The Doctor K Cup: Saturday 8th October!
I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind
September (16)
Take This Bus To Cuba
Fetch Bobble Hats
Trumpeting
Training View tweaks (switch maps, game overlays, mile markers)
Training View tweaks (and a play button bug fix)
A long ride and a cold swim.
Play Button
UTMOST Wava & Bike Division Rebuilds
New UTMOST leagues for cyclists and WAVA fans
The Doctor K Cup
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Do I ditch our Facebook stuff?
A keeper, from my feedback inbox...
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Try the new Training Groups pages
August (11)
Training Groups Update - Coming Soon
Garmin Queue Issues
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New Elbow Laws
No longer the 3398th fastest Fetchie over 10k!
Pulling counties into league tables
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Wahoo and Coros users
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Club Listings
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Four hours left :-)
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April (7)
Today's plan
NEW UTMOST BADGES!!!!!
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March (11)
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Fetch Kit Spares
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Fetch Cycling Jerseys!!!
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Post Office tomorrow - kit spares
January (13)
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Badge Collection Graphic!
Updated elevation trace
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A big slobbery elephant snog.
If you don't like hills, this must be getting tiring :-)
When does a hill end?
Hill finder - prototype v2
Hill Finder - prototype
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Chewie, We’re Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day!
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November (23)
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The Fetch Library
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Mute a thread
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I fell off (but not really!)
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Last call for shirts
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Brought to you by wind power
300 miles later
Golden Ticket Shocker!
Banjobax (aka KOG)
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A little competition - win a copy of Daniels' Running Formula
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Points Of Interest: Grub Stops
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October (19)
New home and away shirts and vests
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Benchmark league table
Hill areas
Preorder is now open!
'b'uffs then
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Buffs (well, neck tubes)
Report dodgy GPS stuff
An apology for people who follow my training
New cycling and swimming badges
New Conquercise Feature: Grids
Sprouting a tiny biking antler :-)
Have a try of the cycling gradient analysis
Struggling with my big ring
Cycling: gradient vs pace
A question for cyclists
For Doctor K
Shan't.
September (14)
New comments (FID 1212)
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Golden Tickets
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This bit of crappy Upminister nearly cost me my f***ing life.
A guide with no pages
To steal a catchphrase from a wise lady...
Multiple choice polls
August (11)
Pre-Race Training - Updated
A connection!
New Member of the Month sponsor
Best Weeks - bug fixes
Your Best Week Ever
Rainbow Kit - preorder is open
Age Bests - filtering out the mistakes :-)
Sign up, sign up, for the Doctor K cup
A message from my lovely wife ❤️
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Spares: Event Clips, Swim Hats and a few rainbow tops
July (10)
A bunch of site goodies :-)
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Holy Simmering Mercury Batman!
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Sleepy Shuffle?
365 graph
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World's Sexiest Bridges
June (11)
Benchmarks - a *tiny* little improvement
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Race Finder - Update
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Last call for FE Event Clips
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Some little updates to your route list
Feature requests - two years on!
More than just a rainbow
May (8)
Rainbow Kit - update on delivery time...
Fetch Ron Hill Cycling Jerseys
Pre-order your rainbow kit now :-)
Jimi Hendrix vs Run DMC
The return of parkrun - a poll
Something in the woodshed...
Default to walk
A tour of the Fetch Office
April (11)
Instabanned :-)
I has Instagram
Fetch Event Clips
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Castle Challenge Coaster!
My chess rating
Jab - symptom watch
This just in...
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Let FE pay for your coaching qualifications :-)
Castle Challenge - A Quick Blog
March (18)
The Fetcheveryone Castle Challenge
Running vs Cycling Cadence
Fetch vests and shirts (and swim caps)
Elevation vs Follow Roads
£500 of England Athletics courses up for grabs!
TomTom users
Music by year: 1993
10k Analysis: Part 7 - Length of Training Runs
Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
Bot sniffing win :-) plus daily blogger count!
User profiles
10k Analysis: Part 6 - Training Pace Again
Time to update your injuries :-)
User profile - sticker button.. EDIT and race standard
More user profile adjustments
User Profile tweaking
Cute story of the week*
10k Analysis: Part 5 - Training Pace
February (17)
Year on Year mileage comparison
Elevation graphs
It's all kicking off in chess club!
Music By year: 1991
10k Analysis: Part 4 - Weekly Training Habits
Tagging virtual races
Chasing rainbows
Rainbow Shirts
Lance!
Blog writing improvements
10k Analysis: Part 3 - Accuracy of human predictions
Music by year: 1990
Smacking bots
29 slices - my seven days of dinner
10k Analysis: Part 2 - Age and Performance
Pass it on
10k Analysis: Part 1 - Distribution of best 10k times
January (31)
January
Mobile Usability Team Helping All Fetchies...
Salmon Ramen Recipe :-)
Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
Backup dog
The best GPS watches in the world... volume 1
Pick it...
People who liked...
Obscure bugs
Zen & The Art of Heart Rate Training
FIT file import - temporary issue
Keep the change, ya filthy animal
The honeymoon is over
Dirty data
Mobile Usability
Oops
Readership!
Stay sticky
It's Hip To Buy Squares
Related Threads - Exposé :-)
The Batshit Association
Jobs
Tag Team
Feed the monster!
An ad for Fetch Chess Club :-)
Estimating VO2Max
Three little birds
A not uncommon swelling
Church Mouse January
Honey, where's my super suit?
Not here.
2020 (128)
December (6)
Blog A Day 2021?
9 years ago today
Chewie, We're Home! Happy Fetch Independence Day :-)
Be Prepared
Becoming an effluencer
A few Fetch Mugs left
November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
FIT file import
Mugs!
Thank you, mysterious Fetchie!
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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