Tired after the walking in Ovronnaz, but good to be back out on the Airport Hill.
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Tuesday 30 October 2012
Tuesday 16 October 2012
5m Bottom field and lake
Stunning autumn day and short run, went lakeside for a change today. All the summer stuff is being packed up and the lake front prepared for winter.
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Sunday 14 October 2012
14m St. Prex Slowly
Having done a half marathon run yesterday, I rashly accepted to do the St. Prex run with Richard late at night at the Westlake 25 year celebrations.
As expected it was:
a) late to start, 10 mins in the freezing cold waiting for Richard
b) slow
c) a good craic
Very nice to be out again with Richard as that's ages since I've run with him.
Garmin
As expected it was:
a) late to start, 10 mins in the freezing cold waiting for Richard
b) slow
c) a good craic
Very nice to be out again with Richard as that's ages since I've run with him.
Garmin
Saturday 13 October 2012
13.36m Nyon Rolle classic
Ran back from Nyon to Rolle.
Bit busier at 9:30 on the trails but also warmer and the sun was up. Stunning as ever. Actually had to stop on the golf course to let a lady tee off, which was a first.
On the approach to the underpass leading to the sentier des toblerones 8 horses came galloping over the field on the over side of the road, which was an impressive sight.
Retraces some of Thursday's route and recalled some highlights to blog. Enjoyed the easy pace and the sunshine as I cruised into Rolle.
Did the half marathon in 1h 49m
Lovely day, beautiful country, life is good!
Garmin
Bit busier at 9:30 on the trails but also warmer and the sun was up. Stunning as ever. Actually had to stop on the golf course to let a lady tee off, which was a first.
On the approach to the underpass leading to the sentier des toblerones 8 horses came galloping over the field on the over side of the road, which was an impressive sight.
Retraces some of Thursday's route and recalled some highlights to blog. Enjoyed the easy pace and the sunshine as I cruised into Rolle.
Did the half marathon in 1h 49m
Lovely day, beautiful country, life is good!
Garmin
Thursday 11 October 2012
4m La Mini- Foulée Glandoise - Paul wins!
Tonight was a special time and the event that happened was an inevitable one, but I was surprised at how soon it came to pass as Paul is 12 years old.
Anyway, we were two groups, our group 4 kids and 4 adults went to the forest behind La Ligniere to do the climbs on the steep paths up from the river. As ever, Paul was constantly out ahead and had to be reigned in from taking the path all the way back to Rolle. I've actually done that with him before, but that's another blog...
We did the hills and ran past a couple with a dog around three times which was a bit weird, as we were looping back to the bottom and coming up a different hill each time. The last one was the wide loop, back to the owl hill which is on my normal Nyon/Rolle route. Over the wooden bridge Paul sprinted off and then slowed so I let of a whoop and tanked past him just fast enough to avoid him catching my shirt and whipped up to the top of the hill with him right on my tail. He left me in no doubt that that had been a seriously embarrassing dad moment. We waited for the group and then it was decided to head back to the sports centre so Paul shot off and I ran with the other boys for a bit. After he was about 200m ahead I decided to try and catch him up.
With just over 1km to go I was closing steadily and sure I could catch him. But as I got to within about 10m he kicked, which surprised me as we were going pretty fast. He pulled away a bit, but I held on and thought that there would be no way he could hold the pace on the bridge. It's a steep humped bridge over the railway and it rises quickly, I try to close a little and Paul just pulls away. I think he'll be finished at the top and I'll get him on the downhill. As we crest the hill he kicks and hammers down the hill. I am now red line and only just keeping in touch. I think he'll need to stop at any moment. But he's got more in the tank, he pushes the flat section hard, taking the racing line out of the bridge, which I miss so he pulls away again. I drag back a couple of metres but it's not enough and now we're sprinting for the car park. Paul gets there a few seconds before me and turns to ask "Did you let me win dad?"
I certainly did not. What a great moment. The last km was done by me in 4:00 and so Paul must have done it in less than that. He told me he knew he had to beat me far from the finish as he was sick of me sprinting past him at the end, so it was a well planned race perfectly executed. Mixed emotions that he's officially now faster than me, but immensely proud of my son.
Since the Olympics Paul ran for 50 consecutive days and did well over 100km. He's improved his speed, his endurance and pacing. All this is great character building stuff and I'm delighted that he's doing something I enjoy and pleased that the student has already surpassed his running jedi master!
Garmin
Anyway, we were two groups, our group 4 kids and 4 adults went to the forest behind La Ligniere to do the climbs on the steep paths up from the river. As ever, Paul was constantly out ahead and had to be reigned in from taking the path all the way back to Rolle. I've actually done that with him before, but that's another blog...
We did the hills and ran past a couple with a dog around three times which was a bit weird, as we were looping back to the bottom and coming up a different hill each time. The last one was the wide loop, back to the owl hill which is on my normal Nyon/Rolle route. Over the wooden bridge Paul sprinted off and then slowed so I let of a whoop and tanked past him just fast enough to avoid him catching my shirt and whipped up to the top of the hill with him right on my tail. He left me in no doubt that that had been a seriously embarrassing dad moment. We waited for the group and then it was decided to head back to the sports centre so Paul shot off and I ran with the other boys for a bit. After he was about 200m ahead I decided to try and catch him up.
With just over 1km to go I was closing steadily and sure I could catch him. But as I got to within about 10m he kicked, which surprised me as we were going pretty fast. He pulled away a bit, but I held on and thought that there would be no way he could hold the pace on the bridge. It's a steep humped bridge over the railway and it rises quickly, I try to close a little and Paul just pulls away. I think he'll be finished at the top and I'll get him on the downhill. As we crest the hill he kicks and hammers down the hill. I am now red line and only just keeping in touch. I think he'll need to stop at any moment. But he's got more in the tank, he pushes the flat section hard, taking the racing line out of the bridge, which I miss so he pulls away again. I drag back a couple of metres but it's not enough and now we're sprinting for the car park. Paul gets there a few seconds before me and turns to ask "Did you let me win dad?"
I certainly did not. What a great moment. The last km was done by me in 4:00 and so Paul must have done it in less than that. He told me he knew he had to beat me far from the finish as he was sick of me sprinting past him at the end, so it was a well planned race perfectly executed. Mixed emotions that he's officially now faster than me, but immensely proud of my son.
Since the Olympics Paul ran for 50 consecutive days and did well over 100km. He's improved his speed, his endurance and pacing. All this is great character building stuff and I'm delighted that he's doing something I enjoy and pleased that the student has already surpassed his running jedi master!
Garmin
Monday 8 October 2012
6.2m Goats' hill
I decided to try to retrace the end of the alternate route to the super steep hill.
Did a loop of the bottom field and was tired and slow. Some super slow people made me look like a rocket as I zoomed by them all at a rather tame 5min per km pace. Found the footpath next to the dual carriage way no problem and got to the 'goat-ette hill' as my stranger in the woods put it last week.
I'd done this once before with Aurellien by mistake so doing it again felt brave.
Actually the correct name is 'Goats' path' and there were three goats on the path today. One behind me and a cheeky orange topped one that snuck in ahead of me from a side road. I closed him down, the one behind vanished and before you could say that was 75m straight up I had to decided left or right and went right to see how big the full loop would be if started from the goats' path. 10km exactly. Nice one.
Creamed the last two km and enjoyed getting the very last one done in 3:59.....
Garmin
Did a loop of the bottom field and was tired and slow. Some super slow people made me look like a rocket as I zoomed by them all at a rather tame 5min per km pace. Found the footpath next to the dual carriage way no problem and got to the 'goat-ette hill' as my stranger in the woods put it last week.
I'd done this once before with Aurellien by mistake so doing it again felt brave.
Actually the correct name is 'Goats' path' and there were three goats on the path today. One behind me and a cheeky orange topped one that snuck in ahead of me from a side road. I closed him down, the one behind vanished and before you could say that was 75m straight up I had to decided left or right and went right to see how big the full loop would be if started from the goats' path. 10km exactly. Nice one.
Creamed the last two km and enjoyed getting the very last one done in 3:59.....
Garmin
Saturday 6 October 2012
10m Eysins Borex Arnex Nyon
Complex logistical problem as had my bag and 2.5 hours to kill before meeting up with Paul.
So got to where he does chess and dumped my kit. I decided to head out towards Eysins hoping to retrace a run I did with Jeremy Burrows a long time ago.
To my delight he was in his garden with his son doing man work. We chatted and he gave me some advice on the route and within 500m of his house I was lost.
Ended up running on the embankment next to the main road which was not great.
Followed the motorway noise through the woods and missed the bridge I was aiming for by about 1km. Come over a different one and found the trail back into Nyon I was looking for, did an extra loop of the block to get up to 16km or 10 miles to make it officially "long".
Garmin
So got to where he does chess and dumped my kit. I decided to head out towards Eysins hoping to retrace a run I did with Jeremy Burrows a long time ago.
To my delight he was in his garden with his son doing man work. We chatted and he gave me some advice on the route and within 500m of his house I was lost.
Ended up running on the embankment next to the main road which was not great.
Followed the motorway noise through the woods and missed the bridge I was aiming for by about 1km. Come over a different one and found the trail back into Nyon I was looking for, did an extra loop of the block to get up to 16km or 10 miles to make it officially "long".
Garmin
Thursday 4 October 2012
4m speed work with the mini Foulée Glandoise
Was 18 seconds late tonight much to the amusement of the organisers who I'd texted to let know we were running late, some neat driving on my part.
Today was one lap of the big par cours route and then several of the shorter. However, knocking out easy then hard clips between each "post". We did it twice, then 5min recover and twice again but this time fast on the easy and slow on the previously fast.
Good fun and Paul was very quick and did not slow down much on the slow bits.
Garmin
Today was one lap of the big par cours route and then several of the shorter. However, knocking out easy then hard clips between each "post". We did it twice, then 5min recover and twice again but this time fast on the easy and slow on the previously fast.
Good fun and Paul was very quick and did not slow down much on the slow bits.
Garmin
Tuesday 2 October 2012
7.72m Geneva towards Versoix
Came out this way a few weeks ago with Pierro and decided to go directly to the railway trail towards the Franz Webber Uni. Along the trial next to the railway I could sense I was being closed down, hunted. I eased a little faster, but the guy responded and I decided I was not in a race and would let him go through with out trying to keep up.
He was a cheerful chap and after 100m or so he offered to be my guide and I gladly accepted. We explored a whole area towards Versoix where I have never been before. Laurence from the Red Cross, it was great to met you and thank you so much.
Turns out he is another sub 3 hours for the marathon guy, so he had to "adapte sa vitesse" for me - ie slow up!
On the way back he also showed me how to avoid the main road into Geneva as there is a path behind the buildings almost the whole way to the botanic gardens. Another result.
7:40min mile pace, or 4:45min kms felt fine. Lovely day and I really enjoyed the run. Cheers Laurence - hope I meet you out there again sometime.
Garmin
He was a cheerful chap and after 100m or so he offered to be my guide and I gladly accepted. We explored a whole area towards Versoix where I have never been before. Laurence from the Red Cross, it was great to met you and thank you so much.
Turns out he is another sub 3 hours for the marathon guy, so he had to "adapte sa vitesse" for me - ie slow up!
On the way back he also showed me how to avoid the main road into Geneva as there is a path behind the buildings almost the whole way to the botanic gardens. Another result.
7:40min mile pace, or 4:45min kms felt fine. Lovely day and I really enjoyed the run. Cheers Laurence - hope I meet you out there again sometime.
Garmin
Monday 1 October 2012
6.22 Airport hill, wide route record
Very chuffed.
It was perfect conditions and I was pumped up for today's run.
I hammered out a fast 1st km to get some time in the bag, slipped around the bottom field not dropping too much time (I could go faster here if dry) then the hill was fine. No drama and went through 5km in 23 minutes so know something was on.
Could not keep it together on the way back up as much as I would have liked, but still cruised home overtaking several people on the way.
Had to dance through the trams at the place des nations to get over the road, but 46:40 is a new route record.
Garmin
It was perfect conditions and I was pumped up for today's run.
I hammered out a fast 1st km to get some time in the bag, slipped around the bottom field not dropping too much time (I could go faster here if dry) then the hill was fine. No drama and went through 5km in 23 minutes so know something was on.
Could not keep it together on the way back up as much as I would have liked, but still cruised home overtaking several people on the way.
Had to dance through the trams at the place des nations to get over the road, but 46:40 is a new route record.
Garmin
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