Tag: early
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2025 Wake Up and Run Nyon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning I woke at Four, before birds started to tweet, and before the sun started to rise. I woke so early, not to deice planes, like I did years ago, but to go for a group run with five hundred and fifty other people, in theory. In practice I think some…
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Waking Early to Cycle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI think that tomorrow I will wake between 05:00-05:30 to be ready at the meeting point to go for a bike ride that starts at 06:30. The start is early because it is meant to be a "ride before work" for this group. The pace is tempo. On the flat I…
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A Choice of Weekend Sports
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis weekend I have the choice between running, hiking, walking, via ferrata and probably more. Years ago I would have automatically gravitated towards Via Ferrata because that is a sport I really loved. These days I’m not so sure. It’s especially that the VF would take one and a half hours of…
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A Possible Change of Plans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn theory I am waking at 0400 or earlier tomorrow to go and run in Vernier at 0530 but in practice that is now in doubt, not because I’m lazy but because I have a sore throat.I really hope that what I am fighting is just a short lived bug, nothing…
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Wake Up and Run Before the Sunrise in Nyon
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I got up at 4am to go for a run with strangers in Nyon. The meeting time was 05:10 and the run/jog/walk began at 05:30. Before the run Activ Fitness gave us a warm up workout that I followed half-heartedly. I had already walked 3km so my body was warm.…
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The Five and Six AM Club
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne winter I woke seven or eight days in a row at 2am to be at work and ready to work for 0400. It was very hard to do, and since then I prefer not to have to wake up too early. Yesterday I woke at 0600, naturally, but also because I…