Lardy-da

[hirez]

The last time I went to the Nice Shop to buy some proper running shoes, they had me pile up and down St. Michael's Hill (it's steep, even for Bristol) a half-dozen times in different examples so they could 'check my gait' and watch me expire on the pavement afterwards.

This time, I biked up there, piled up and down St. Michael's Hill a half dozen times, biked home again and then expired in a heap.

Progress. Excellent. (Pardon my enthusiasm, this business of a 'beginner's running club' at work is (a) rather fun, and (b) kicking my arse.)

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[s0b.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough we just got back from the first run (having been fitted for new running shoes with lasers this morning)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Easy Runner is too small for lasers. They have a Musgrave Footprint (though it's not called that for reasons of keeping me sane) and many disturbingly fit (in both senses) young women about the place, which is not what one learns from the daily papers about the youth of today.

I should note, for the purposes of clawing hold of what vanishing (post)punk cred I may have had left, that I do my running in cut-off flecktarn combats and a sleeveless Whitby shirt.

[s0b.livejournal.com]

Black clubbing leggings and a Quarriers T-shirt ... we seem to share a similar taste in post-millenial fashion

[jul1et.livejournal.com]

know that hill well - our evil sports teachers quite liked it as an addition to the cross county over the downs - standing next to their cars in their fur coats with flasks of hot tea watching us crawl past in basic gym kit in mid winter. Tracksuits are for the weak apparently............

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... But there are about two dozen pubs you could have stopped at for a swift half on the way.