Running and Being. The races (which arent actually races) are on another page and this is actually the link

and also you can see how i am getting to places now including my feet for proof! but unfortunately the little red car over heated because i forgot about the water, or something, i think, so then it broke, after blue smoke came out of it, it was like the movies, but its being fixed now in Coventry and it will be ok. so its like my shin at the moment. we are in synch, me and the car. so i'm going to ask the mechanic for instructions on how to look after the car so that it doesnt blow up in the middle of the road.

Walking along the dotted line all the way around Coventry

some things i found to do with the topic of running

a kind of night time landscape of the same person

about 2 recent running days in my running collection

Also, the arrows made of flour for the Compton run really worked well, even in the rain, they looked sort of like chalk dust, and I think people tried not to stand on them so they could still be there for other runners, that could have been due to the instruction 'if you cannot run without leaving a trail of rubbish behind you then please do not come to Compton' so maybe that made people care about other things and people too.
After 20 miles, you could choose to carry on and do another 20 miles, or you could choose to go down a little hill and finish for the day. Most of the 2nd twenty miles i was running alone checking the arrows and it was quite nice, but about the last I think 8 miles, I ran with Tom, who is in retirement now, he was in training for a 100 mile event in May which he said he does every year, so that made it feel like we were just doing a little jog and it was quite fun and we were glad at the end as it had been raining and we'd both kept going in the rain, we only walked when there was very extremely gloopy mud that you cant run in, but we walked fast. Mostly the trails are single track so you have to go single file which is good if you dont know what to say.(about walking in Trail Ultra races in general - i noticed a lot of people put their hands on the part of their legs above their knees when they are doing hill walking, which is what you do in Ultra Marathons as the energy you conserve outweighs the few seconds you would gain by running up the hill. I think its like a strategy. I think joining your hands to your legs is like a way of enouraging yourself to keep going up the hill, it kind of works quite well. they do it on the fells in Scotland too)

Lately I have probably been rambling on a bit too much about running, its just I have to.

The Compton Instructions

this is one page of the instructions, not about the route, just about the rest of it, and only some of it. The coloured writing is my commenting and the black bits are part of the original instructions of that particular page. This is for the Compton 40 mile (but where you can change your mind and do 20 miles or you can change your mind from 20 to 40) which starts on saturday this week, so the 3rd of April.

The Association of the Coventry Way

Continued from the goings on of yesterday and a picture of looking at a map all instead of something or not at all instead of anything at all

April and May the Writing and the Picture

Bothies and Bluebells

finally, a quote i just found from The Mountain Bothies Association which sounds all nice and caring:
" To maintain simple shelters in remote country for the use and benefit of all who love wild and lonely places"

camelbak

the feet in the warm hill where some of the veins are leaking out

Steyning and Comrades_ and a link to a million messages about Comrades

some pictures from Steyning

this is of the downs before checkpoint one and apparently it was 2 or minus 2 degrees celcius. this got taken by the photography guy and he seems to like to record all sorts of things like the temperature. it looks quite nice, sort of how it was really.


in the beginning of the steyning stinger i fell, because normally on the south downs there is a lot of mud, but on sunday the mud had gone hard, but it still looked like normal mud but in fact it was like granite, so i fell and got grazes but i didnt really feel them because it was very cold and it didnt really matter only now i notice them because of the laptop being boiling hot from being turned on all day. This is from all week because I've been with my laptop all week and running every day except monday because i didnt want to get DOMS (Delayed Muscle Onset Soreness)which you can read about in the Lore of Running by Tim Noakes who is South African and he has also obviously run the Comrades a few times and he's friends with Bruce Fordyce who has won the Comrades about 6 times, and also the London to Brighton twice.


this is my elbow, its a bit hard to take a photo of an elbow! i didnt feel that one iether luckily.


this is of my 2010 races, because the 2009 ones are still on the wall near my hand with the grazes, but soon i'll take the 2009 ones down if i can think of a new topic.


this is me running, i put it here because of the pink which was like an experiment so it needs to be with the other things together to see and also because it is probably symbolic of something that i have my eyes closed. i dont remember running with my eyes closed, but maybe that is in fact how i fell, from not looking where I am going, and i mustn't blame it on the state of the mud.

diski and yurts

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