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cameron.beeler 35 months ago
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Last Thursday I ran about 4K's up and down the little hills here in Durban.
Today I managed to slug-run about 6K's. Dang I'm fat. But more fat today than
tommorrow, and less fat today than yesterday! The hardest part is getting
started, but now I'm beginning....Cam
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Craig Blewett 35 months ago
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Well done Cam - as you know it's always hardest to get going. The first few
weeks are the real tough ones - but keep at it and keep enjoying it and soon
you will be so thin we wont see you if you stand sideways... C:-)
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Nathan Islip 34 months ago
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Hey there Craig Its winter here in Melb and i often run at night, but i do
prefer the asphalt to the evil concrete footpath ... so i have taken to wearing
my reflective bike vest while running. It seems i shine like a beacon for the
oncoming cars because they all raise their headlights long before they get to
me. I keep a safe distance from the actual traffic, always running on the
shoulder of the road, but now that the distances are increasing i have no
choice but to run on the road as the footpath ends and i head into country
Victoria ... last night i ran to the boundary of my municipality which is a
novel thought. I also get an ambiguous little toot of the car horn every so
often, but it seems more of a friendly encouraging toot rather than a "what the
hell are you doing!" blast. Cheers Nath
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Craig Blewett 33 months ago
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Yeah - that's the fun thing with the long runs, you need to start venturing out
further and further. We find that we run the entire perimeter of our suburb and
surrounding suburbs in order to get a 21km in. Like today we're off to do 21km
so we have to really search for the mileage. Our other option is we get someone
to drop us off the required distance from home - I enjoy that because there is
a real sense of achievement in a point-to-point run as compared to running and
returning to the same point. I know the feeling of the night runs - but I too
enjoy them. Great to see that you wear stuff to keep you visible as that is the
biggest risk. We tend to head out at about 4pm but now in winter it gets dark
at about 5:30pm so all our longer runs (over 2 hours) end in the dark - it's
fun. It is nice to see people encouraging you on - I guess most often they are
other runners. I see people out running sometimes and feel envious as it looks
so much fun......enjoy it....this is what makes you feel alive! c:-)
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