Not every run has to be special
January 20, 2020Busy wasting time looking at running stuff on t’internet. Everyone seems to be doing some impressive run in the most beautiful places on Earth. Everyone’s smiling and full of energy. Except for me. I’m grinding out the same couple of loops around Attenborough Nature Reserve and Beeston Canal 5-6 times a week. Not sure about…
Year end stats for 2019 from Garmin Connect, Elevate and VeloViewer
December 28, 2019After coming back from the in-laws for Christmas I’ve come down with a chest cold that’s knocked me down a bit. Lack of sleep and breathe never help me with the running. And it seems I’ve tweaked my left hamstring at the Tunbridge Wells Christmas Day park run. So there’s unlikely to be little if…
Royal Tunbridge Wells Park Run – Christmas Day 2019
December 26, 2019Down visiting the in-laws for Christmas and we fancied getting out for a bit of a run. They live in a pretty rural area of Kent, so the only option is out across the field. Last year that was fine as it was so cold all the mud was frozen, this year it had been…
Bridge out in Attenborough Nature Reserve
August 16, 2019On my last run along the top edge of Attenborough nature reserve I spotted some new Rights of Way change notices. I’m keeping an eye out for these after the Spring Lane level crossing ones from last year. A quick read and it was just that they were restricting access to the old bridge crossing…
A day in the dietary life of Beeston Runner
July 24, 2019Appropos of nothing I thought it might be good to log what I’ve eaten today. I tend to keep a rough eye on what I’m eating anyway as I do enjoy my food, and I love a good carb, so pasta and rice get piled high if I’m not watching. I have a pretty standard…
Taking it steady
June 20, 2019Quite literally in this case. After I came back from Seattle I was tired all the time, and when I went for a run it was a slog all the way round with no real enjoyment. So I decided to take some time off. Looking for something to do I picked up Matt Fitzgeralds 80/20…
Sinfin 10k Classic
May 15, 2019Something slightly shorter and less undulating this time with the Sinfin 10k Classic. Organised for many years by the Sinfin Running club, this was our first visit after seeing it mentioned on the Beeston AC facebook page Was nice to have an easy start for a running event. 10:30 am start for the 10k, and…
Retford Half Marathon 2019
April 18, 2019Thanks to the Doctor I have potential cause and solution to the issues mentioned in the last post, so fingers crossed I’ll be firing on all cylinders again soon So time for a quick recap of my last good run, Retford Half Marathon 2019 edition Mrs BeestonRunner got the running bug as well and wanted…
Boston Marathon training week 5
January 30, 2019It’s been cold the last week so there’s a lack of photos to accompany this week’s marathon training as I didn’t fancy stopping, or taking my gloves off. 11 more weeks training until the Boston (UK) marathon and this was planned to be the first week I do more than 40 miles of running As…
Joining a running club
January 21, 2019I had “Join a Running club” on my list of running things to do, and it seemed an easy one to tick off. So I started googling around for running clubs local to Beeston What I’m looking for To narrow it down I had a couple of things that I really wanted from a club:…
Attenborough level crossing – post meeting brain dump
December 5, 2018A follow up to my post Attenborough Rail Crossing November 2018/ Just back from the meeting. Spoke to their Rights of Way expert. They are claiming that the ‘Cyclepath’ will have a legal standing, but I want to do more digging in to that before commenting too much further. Apparently the lights will be going in…
Attenborough rail crossing – November 2018
November 30, 2018If you’re from Beeston then you’ve probably used the Meadow Lane level crossing to get over the railway and into Attenborough Nature Reserve. Back in 2016 Network Rail started to canvas local opinion on closing this crossing, and did a survey of usage Turns out it was heavily used as it’s a major entry point…
Bloke Begins Yoga
November 27, 2018I’ve never been the most flexible of people. I think I last touched my toes around the age of 14, 29 years ago. 23 years in a job that primarily involves driving a desk hasn’t helped either. Then 5 years of long distance cycling added on to the mix gives me hamstrings that are so…
Get monthly mileage total from Garmin Connect mobile app
November 8, 2018Mainly writing this as I only ever want to get my monthly mileage total from Garmin Connect mobile app and I always forget how to! Garmin haven’t made it easy and the mobile Garmin Connect app doesn’t offer any clues on where it stores the totals. Working through it screen by screen: On the home…
Running plans for the next 5 months
November 8, 2018October 2018 turned out to be a much better running month than expected. I ran over 100 miles. and whilst not doing anything particularly structured managed to break my half marathon PB at the Workshop Half Marathon . So it’s got me thinking what I could achieve next year with a bit more training Setting Targets…
Worksop Halloween Half Marathon October 2018
October 30, 2018Preamble This one came as a bit of a surprise as I hadn’t planned on running another half in 2018. Unluckily for him a colleague had an entry and then succumbed to a iliotibial band problem. Wanting to remove any temptation to attempt the run he transferred his entry over to me on the Wednesday before…
Twiddling thumbs
September 22, 2018One of those weeks really. Managed a couple of runs, but nothing special. Each of them ended up feeling sore and taking a lot longer for it to disappear. Work was busy so no lunch time escapes to the gym or sneaking out for a Yoga lesson. All desk driving and no play makes me…
Plans Change
September 2, 2018Originally today’s plan was to be running the 26 miles Dunstable Downs Challenge, but things change. Training was going well, decent half marathon time at the Belvoir Half Marathon, pleased with my times on the London Cardiff 24 give the lack of sleep and ramping the mileage up nicely. Then I over extended myself in…