Haha, I bet that woke you up getting electrocuted!
New shorts required?
Great run though, 3am 
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Nice. Iāve done a big fat nothing this morning. Wed are a car crash at work for me but will try to get out later.
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I SWAM 
1.5km 1:40/100m ave
First time in 13 weeks, but I didnāt drown.
Not sure the 1:26 and 1:28 opening 100s were the best opening salvo 
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Lost for words on this one 
Surprised Ranulph Fiennes isnāt coming to hear YOU talk later
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Nah itās nothing special. I just do my long runs at stupid times, thatās all. Makes it seem more mysterious than it is! 
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Nice work. Very impressive.
Iāve been to the Ranulph Finnes talk. Itās very good, heās mental. Makes James Cracknell look positively normal.
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Yeah, nothing about that picture suggests shit could go sideways in a hurry 
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A proper aquathlon then 
Does anyone know where you are when you run? I guess you have your phone?
I donāt carry anything like that but maybe should. Fully expect to be found dead in a ditch by a search party at some stage
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Hmm, not really. I should be much hotter on leaving routes and stuff with Mrs GB, but i rarely remember to do so. I have my phone, yeah. But not much good i guess if i fall and bump my head. Iām often with a mate, but certainly not always.
I guess i should at least set that Garmin alert/tracker thing up, just in case iām like an hour behind when i said iād be back. Iām often later than i say iāll be, which doesnāt help as it would take a lot of time to pass before Mrs GB started to worry.
Good point though @fruit_thief
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Ha ha !
I moan about the
very small amount of mud the odd tractor leaves on my run routeā¦!
#differentworld
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On a serious note, do any of you use the āwhatthreewordsā app? (I donāt!)
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I tried to climb over one once when lost across the fields.
I wasnāt quite as tall as Iād hoped, that was focusing!
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At least we know where āBloody, Electric, Fenceā is located.
I donāt use it but, like you, probably should if I get stranded somewhere
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Good effort @gingerbongo Getting up at 3:30 has no appeal to me whatsoever!
Who do us single folk leave our details with? The next person to find our dead bodies in the river? I do always carry my phone though.
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HMRC! 
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My second track session last night: 6 reps of 800m at 5k pace, one minute rest then 200m faster and then 3 mins rest.
Of courses I set off much faster than my 5k pace 
Unlike last week where my 400 reps were increasing in speed, there was a noticeable drop off in the 800s.
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This is where the Apple Watch can be useful - go arse over tit and it will ask if you want to send an alert to the emergency services. If it detects no movement for a period it will send the alert out.
It did that to me one day when walking the dog - I put a foot in a hidden rabbit hole and went down like a sack of spuds - the alert surprised me but sure enough it showed it works.
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The garmins do that also. My wife fell over running (sheās clumsy) and it started calling me.
Just bashed out 2.5*2.5km @ 16kmh on the treadmill (at a cowardly 0% gradient)
Was intending to do 3 of them, but lost the will to live halfway through the final one & took an early bath.
Knacked now. HR was hitting high 160s, 175 is HRmax. Holding that effort is just grim.
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