July 2006

Stressful upgrade to movable type 3.31

July 31, 2006
Stressful upgrade to movable type 3.31

I knew I should not have attempted this upgrade. I made the same mistake last year and it resulted in approximately 27 hours of high anxiety while I desperately scrabbled around every user forum trying to find an answer to “how the hell am I going to get my blog back?!”. Well at least todays [...]

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10km Target – Hit!

July 28, 2006
10km Target - Hit!

I ran for a whole 10k this morning. Nearly crippled myself but I had to do it – that damn gym buddy of mine keeps setting new challenges. It took me 77 mins which is better than I expected. More details on the MotionBased site.

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New 6.6km Run

July 26, 2006
New 6.6km Run

Click image to enlarge I’ve really started to increase the length of my runs now. I blame it on the Garmin Forerunner 305 as it seems to be encouraging me to try out new routes so I can play with them on SportTracks. Here is a satellite screenshot of my latest training run, I’ve taken [...]

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Body For Life – 5 week update

July 23, 2006
Body For Life - 5 week update

So I am about 5 weeks into the BFL – Body for Life challenge and thought it was perhaps time to drop in an update and outline my progress so far. There have been a few changes, the weight has started to drop – 9lbs in total. I lost a bit in the first couple [...]

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Garmin Forerunner 305 Review

July 22, 2006
Garmin Forerunner 305 Review

My last speed and distance watch, the Polar RS200SD was beginning to get a bit tatty, so I took the opportunity to try out the latest thing in sports watches – the Garmin Forerunner 305. The forerunner is a massive wrist computer, no chance of wearing it as a day long watch, which is just [...]

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Running Routes – West London

July 22, 2006
Running Routes - West London

I’ve prepared 8 route profiles to encourage me to step up the pace a bit with my running. All are based around the bridges across the Thames in West London, so they are both flat and beautiful runs. I have a 3.5k route from Chiswick Bridge to Barnes Bridge, which is my usual morning run, [...]

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New London Off Road Routes

July 22, 2006
New London Off Road Routes

Well I’ve had a couple of fun weekends with Stumpy, trying to find reasonable off road routes to go mountain biking in London. I’ve added a few GPS routes to the main site: 1. Mountain biking in Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common. 2. Long trek: Richmond, Hampton Court, Chessington and Epsom Here is a MotionBased [...]

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Nike 10k Run – North vs South

July 19, 2006
Nike 10k Run - North vs South

I don’t know what possessed me! I’ve just committed myself to the Nike 10k run to be held in Hyde Park in early October. Why would I do that? I can only just stagger around a 5k course. Whats worse is that its a competiton – North vs South with the winner chosen on the [...]

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Slow Start Up

July 18, 2006
Slow Start Up

After a few months of use I find that my computers always start to crawl at startup. I find this really irritating and my sony vaio is particularly problematic as there are hundreds of programs running at any one time. MSCONFIG is a useful tool for clearing up unnecessary utilities from the startup but it [...]

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Stumpy FSR – Girls Bike

July 3, 2006
Stumpy FSR - Girls Bike

Can you believe it? It seems that I am so short, that I have to buy a girls bike!   I went in to the bike shop to pick up a men’s Specialized Stumpjumper FSR comp, but even the small is too big for me. The women’s frame is only just ok, but I have [...]

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