Tag: running
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On Garmin and Coros
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s easy to fall into the trap of looking at expensive Garmin watches and thinking that maps are a premium feature, when, in fact they are not. Suunto and Coros offer them on affordable devices, should you require that feature for trail running, hiking, and more. If you want to use the…
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Running Fun With Fountains in a Heat Wave
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I had the pleasure of going for a run early. I had planned to run at 07:30 to finish right as the shops were opening but I felt too lazy, so I was at the shops by 08:20 and running a few minutes later. I was thinking “Oh it’s still early,…
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Trail Running Near St-Cergue
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went trail running in the Jura near St-Cergue and I found the experience okay. I think that the group stopping regularly helped make this a relatively easy run despite the gradient. Cycling got me used to making hard efforts, not for seconds or minutes at a time but for an…
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Five Runs in a Week
Reading Time: 2 minutesI ran five days out of seven this week. I ran Monday, twice and then once several days. Most of the runs were easy and early, for two reasons. The first is that we’re in a canicule so pushing hard doesn’t make sense. The second reason is that there are fewer social…
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On Summer Heat and Proper Hydration
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was very sad to see that tomorrow’s evening storm is cancelled due to lack of interest. I am very interested in rain falling heavily from the sky. I want it to drench and cool the minergie building within which I live. I want the cool air to help make this building…
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The Ochsner Sport Runday Monday Signy Run
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor several weeks I have run with the Ochsner Sport Runday Monday Signy group. Last night the run began at the Abériaux parking before heading towards Gland and skimming the Domaine Impérial before then heading back through some woods towards the parking, before then stopping by a plage for a swim and…
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Running Upwards Along a River in Morges at Dawn
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome people were watching the football last night. Others were working towards qualifying enough hearing loss at a music festival to get hearing aids. I decided that on Friday morning I would wake around 04:30 to run in Morges at 06:00. Many would see waking so early as a crazy and…
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On Heatwaves and Getting Up at Dawn to Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are entering the first Canicule of the summer today from Thursday and towards the 23rd of June. During this heat wave Minergie buildings, will climb towards 32°c plus, as will apartments. Cities will gather more and more heat energy and radiate it it. That’s when noisy music festivals can have deadly…
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Three Thousand Eight Hundred Meters of Climbing Later
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Monday, and last week I climbed 2000m to Marchairuz on Monday, and then 465m to Romainmôtier on Thursday and then another 1300m on Sunday. The total is thus 3800m of climbing in a single week. The goal, for a month is 8000m so in two weeks, at this pace, I would…
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Décathlon as Social Network
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery few weeks I notice that Décathlon organise a run in Geneva, or Chavannes, or other places. Today I went for a five kilometre with this group and it made me think of Décathlon as a social network, rather than just a shop. What I mean by this is that we often…