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- Published on Sunday, 09 October 2011 20:29
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10 runs, 10.8 kilometres each – 108 kilometres
Celebrating 10 Years of the Druk White Lotus School
Some time ago some friends from Live to Love and from the Druk White Lotus School UK project office asked me to do something special to celebrate 10 years of the Druk White Lotus School.
At first, I thought about organising a party, but I have always been rubbish at organising parties. At the time I was developing a regular running routine and came up with the idea of running once for each of the 10 years been celebrated, 10 runs.
Run # 5 - Part I
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- Published on Sunday, 06 November 2011 22:48
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Run #5 – A sticky affair
I completed run # 5 on Saturday, 05 November 2011 in approximately 1 hour and 44 minutes. It was indeed a sticky matter and the richest of the 5 runs; so rich that it is likely to require more than one article. Apart from 'A Sticky affair', 4 other topics came to mind while thinking about writing an entry for this run:
· Beyond the pain barrier
· The zone beyond the zone
· The loop
· Runners in the mist
I will try to write 4 additional entries about this run, one for each of the 4 topics above.
Run # 4
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- Published on Saturday, 29 October 2011 20:43
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Run # 4 – the impromptu
It was a Wednesday evening – 26 October 2011, up until then the week had being busy and stressful at many levels. I set out around 17:30 for a gentle training session, I did not have the intention of running fast or far, this was suposed to be just a conditioning run to keep my training going.
About 20 minutes into the run I noticed I had managed to find the pace; the pace I had so eagerly tried to find during the previous 3 runs; a pace I had always failed to find up until then; a pace I had started to refer to as the elusive pace. It is difficult to describe it. My heart was not working too hard, always below 140 BPM, I had somehow found a way of sustaining a comfortable bounce by running just on the balls of my feet with my talons hardly touching the ground. I had tried this many times and failed; perhaps I am now fitter but I also think that my new running trousers could have played a role by keeping lower leg muscles warm on chilly and windy autumn evening. When I realised that I had run like this for nearly 40 minutes and covered almost 6 kilometres I, of course, started to consider if could run like for 10.8 kilometres. This is how a simple training session became and experiment. The pace is why I decided to run the full 10.8 kilometres.