Friday, 31 December 2010
Have A Happy Crazy Fast And Healthy New Year!
The hardest button to push is past your comfort zone, do that and you're grow not only as an athlete but also as a person!
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Monday, 27 December 2010
Billy Connolly talks about suicide bombers = funny
Scott's post made me think of Billy Connolly, which lead me to find this video!
Good news the thaw has started, might be able to start running fast again soon :]
Good news the thaw has started, might be able to start running fast again soon :]
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Good Deed For The Day!
Running along Selworthy Rd I spotted a car in trouble ahead.
Two attractive Asian girls got out and tried to push their rich father out of the snow.
Thought I'd give them a helping hand and eventually we got the car going again.
Hope this brings me much needed good Carma!
Sandhill run easy = 1 hour 8 mins
OK Not sure what this photo has to do with my story, but!
Two attractive Asian girls got out and tried to push their rich father out of the snow.
Thought I'd give them a helping hand and eventually we got the car going again.
Hope this brings me much needed good Carma!
Sandhill run easy = 1 hour 8 mins
The Good Show
In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? Download
Saturday, 25 December 2010
Beautiful Christmas Run!
Just had a great run through the big sandhill trails with Tess, conditions were fantastic.
Beautiful sunshine kept me warm, I even took my gloves off and with no wind it felt great to be alive.
The snow capped views were stunning!
The snow trails are now smooth and compact and not to bad to run on using my Nike Red Rocks for grip.
We finished with 2 hours 4 mins
Hope you had as much fun as we did today.
Happy festive spirit all round :]
Southport resident and football legend Kenny Dalglish and his wife Marina took to Twitter to rap the local council for not gritting the roads, He said there was more grit in his teeth than on the roads READ FULL STORY HERE
Beautiful sunshine kept me warm, I even took my gloves off and with no wind it felt great to be alive.
The snow capped views were stunning!
The snow trails are now smooth and compact and not to bad to run on using my Nike Red Rocks for grip.
We finished with 2 hours 4 mins
Hope you had as much fun as we did today.
Happy festive spirit all round :]
Southport resident and football legend Kenny Dalglish and his wife Marina took to Twitter to rap the local council for not gritting the roads, He said there was more grit in his teeth than on the roads READ FULL STORY HERE
Friday, 24 December 2010
Trigger Point Performance: Better Body Biomechanics
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Really crazy stuff, just followed the video, on the massaged leg I could do great one legged hops but on the unmassaged leg i could hardly get off the ground, give it a try it really works!
NEWS UPDATE
SWAC CHRISTMAS HANDICAP CANCELLED!
Check out the giant icicles forming from my roof!
What would happen if one of the said pointy icicles fell on my head, impalement for sure :[
Condition are still very poor for running here with rutted snow and ice on most of the roads and paths..
I decided to use this week and next as a time to recovery and refresh before I start the Marius Bakken training at the start of Jan.
Most of my runs have been in my X/c spikes but after hearing the good comments about YAKTRACKS I ordered a pair.
TRAINING UPDATE
Mon
Steady Hillside loop with 6 x 20 strides + 30 mins
Tue
Steady hillside loop = 39 mins
Wed
Sandhills easy with Tess = 1 hour 40 mins
Thur
Hillside loop with 6 x 20 sec strides = 32 mins
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, enjoy the holiday:]
Really crazy stuff, just followed the video, on the massaged leg I could do great one legged hops but on the unmassaged leg i could hardly get off the ground, give it a try it really works!
NEWS UPDATE
SWAC CHRISTMAS HANDICAP CANCELLED!
Check out the giant icicles forming from my roof!
What would happen if one of the said pointy icicles fell on my head, impalement for sure :[
Condition are still very poor for running here with rutted snow and ice on most of the roads and paths..
I decided to use this week and next as a time to recovery and refresh before I start the Marius Bakken training at the start of Jan.
Most of my runs have been in my X/c spikes but after hearing the good comments about YAKTRACKS I ordered a pair.
TRAINING UPDATE
Mon
Steady Hillside loop with 6 x 20 strides + 30 mins
Tue
Steady hillside loop = 39 mins
Wed
Sandhills easy with Tess = 1 hour 40 mins
Thur
Hillside loop with 6 x 20 sec strides = 32 mins
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE, enjoy the holiday:]
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
WINTER SOLSTICE time to celebrate the return of the SUN!
Today the sun crossed the sky at its lowest trajectory as seen from the Northern Hemisphere, and so its apparent trek from rising to setting will be quick. Result: the shortest day of the year and the longest night.
On the bright side, starting Tomorrow the days will begin getting longer.
Where most of us live in the mid-latitudes, daylight ranges from about 15 hours around the summer solstice (when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun) to around 9 hours close to the winter solstice. The opposite happens in the Southern Hemisphere, and as such, summer gets its official start there this week.
With less sunlight hitting us, temperatures drop. However, the Earth is actually closer to the sun during winter in the Northern Hemisphere. It's the tilt that gets us.
And in fact the coldest days of the year are yet to come. Though the days will get longer during January, Northern Hemisphere oceans continue to cool in the relative lack of sunlight, and ocean temperatures drive much of the weather on the continents. READ MORE
Top 10 Amazing Moon Facts
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No 'Dark Side'
Contrary to what you might have heard, there is no "dark side" of the moon. There is, however, a "far side" that we can't see from Earth. Here's why:
Long ago, the Earth's gravitational effects slowed the moon's rotation about its axis. Once the moon's rotation slowed enough to match its orbital period (the time it takes the moon to go around Earth) the effect stabilized.
So the moon goes around the Earth once and spins on its axis once, all in the same amount of time, and it shows us just one face the whole time.
![image: [ Pagans celebrate the winter solstice, on December 21 ]](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/images/_37276_pagan300.jpg)
Christmas pagan? Do the celebration of December 25th, the Christmas tree, the giving of gifts and other Christmas traditions all have their root in the pagan mystery religions of the ancient? Or is all of this stuff about a "pagan Christmas" just a bunch of nonsense?
CHRISTMAS NOW
The celebration of the birth of commercialism.. CHRISTMAS PAST A holiday that originally was supposed to be for the birth of Christ. When the Catholics/ Christians took over the pagan peoples, they replaced their holiday with their own Birth of the Son, (as in of God) to make the transition to Christianity's traditions easier. The idea of Santa Claus and his reindeer was created in the 1800s, and is loosely based on St. Nicholas, who gave random presents to people. The idea of a christmas tree dates back to German celebrations of Christmas thousands of years ago. They used an evergreen tree to symbolize life and hope in dark times, and hung apples on it. THE ORGINAL CHRISTMAS A celebration of humanity dating back thousands of years. It originated as a pagan celebration of the birth of the Sun, as it was celebrated on the winter equinox, and after that point, days got longer. | ||
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