Entries Tagged 'allotments' ↓

Joining my very distinguished list of mates in my blog roll is Chris with his brand new running blog.
That makes 4 mates now and one of those is my own allotment blog …I really must get out more!

Chris (another sensible chap who works from home) has dusted off his trainers and after a week or two fine tuning to sharpen up his fast-twitch muscle fibres we’ll be meeting up in Meols (next door to Hoylake) to sprint off in the direction of Leasowe Lighthouse and beyond.

Talking of running I haven’t been out since last Thursday. Was going to try and go out yesterday but ended up spending more time than planned on a search marketing proposal for a potential client. Might try and get one in today …seems hot today though so maybe I’ll do some weeding down on the plot midday and go for a run late afternoon when it should be cooler. Or I could do some work I suppose!

Another dual purpose run.

Down to the weediest allotment in Hoylake first to water the greenhouse plants and then up to Red Rocks and back home via Barton Road. Warm out, lovely evening.

Start:16:20
Duration:32:57
Distance:6.96 km
Ave speed:12.67 kph

577 kcal

HRmax=185/ave=169

As I needed to pop down to my allotment to water the tomatoe plants etc in the greenhouse I decided to combine the plot 69 visit with a run. Actually I could do with multi-tasking more often as I never seem to have enough time to fit things in even though I run our search marketing business from home and have no commute time!

Ran down to the plot. Using my navman for the first time in ages I now know that door to door it’s 1km (well about 10 metres shy - so we’ll call it 1km). Did that in 4.37. Watered the plants and then headed off to Beach Road. You lose a bit of time crossing the railway line but no matter, this’ll never be a circuit for speed running. Up Market Street, down Stanley Road to Beach Road, and then back home as usual.

Going awful. Felt like a lump of lard! Might be getting a cold so I’ll blame that. Grotty weather too - back to two tops and long pants. Resultant ave speed seems high to me. I did pause the watch whilst on the plot though not the navman - but I hardly walked any distance at all. Perhaps the wind down on the prom blew me home? And as I type this not only is it windy it’s pouring down too. Ah! it’s a Bank Holiday.

Start:16:25
Duration:25:48
Distance:5.47 km
Ave speed:12.72 kph

400 kcal

HRmax=174/168

Unusually, it was raining. Must be the first time in ages. Went out and got wet. Wasn’t going that well - I’ll blame that on decorating and plotting over the weekend giving me stiff legs.

Did Red Rocks and back and that was enough for me today.

Start: 14:02
Duration:25:32
Distance:5.51 km
Ave speed:12.95 kph

440 kcal

HRmax=175/ave=167

Running Hoylake

Nope!

Way to windy today and I just didn’t fancy running up Hoylake Promenade into a full-on headwind. I walked back along the prom (tail wind) this morning after getting the paper and I was literally being blown along. Every road corner is covered in a blanket of drifted sand too.

Our house (roof) is okay so far (fingers crossed) but some neighbours have lost tiles, ridge tiles and fence panels. Glass windows have gone in a couple of local shops apparently.

With no running on the agenda I thought about going down to the allotment (ooh look, now on it’s own domain name from names.co.uk - they let you change the cname DNS setting - now that blogger supports custom domains) for a second day but decided against it. I was chatting to a fellow allotmenteer last Sunday and she was saying that it’s not that uncommon for shed roofs to get blown around the site on really windy days! So sod that - stayed in for tea and cake.

Went for a longer one today. Did this circuit (now named my wirral way circuit) again only did the Wirral Way on the outward leg instead. Not as windy as it was during the night but windy nevertheless. The prom just isn’t nice in the wind. Remembered to tape my left nipple (right one never boths me) and carried some water too this time. Didn’t help though really ‘cos I managed to make really hard work of it.

Thing is, now that I’ve finally got my allotment (blog updated needed) I need to better manage my (day) time whilst I get the very overgrown plot kind of sorted. So the current plan is perhaps to do longer runs every other day and on the rest day I’ll walk down to plot 69 and do some digging (actually, I read an article t’other day that suggests that us men need to be out in the fresh air doing things - like digging in soil full of weeds - to keep us sane and happy … hunter/gatherer stuff I guess).

Ideally I’d do both every day but I need to work on long over-due revamps of credit card sites and such like to avoid street begging. Roll on light summer evenings when there’s always more time to do things.

Not at all sure why Navman says it’s 360m shorter today?

Start:13:07
Duration:1:04:37
Distance:12.51 km
Ave speed:11.62 (though distance tbc)

1136 kcal

HRmax=176/ave=168

Running Hoylake

Popped out for the run in the afternoon (a grim one at that to start 2007).

As I’ve got news that I should be finally getting my allotment plot I trotted down to the site to take a quick nose. I’ll be doing things with my allotment blog soon I hope. Anyways, after spending 20 odd minutes at the plots (got chatting to someone) I trotted down Stanley Road before a hailstorm convinced me it was time to turn home for a cup of tea. Stats are from when I left the house so are a bit daft. Navman didnt get a signal.

(not included in running totals)

Start:15:42
Duration:44:26

584 kcal

HRmax=179/ave=141

Running Hoylake