Felt like
For those of you nerdily interested in exactly how far you run, conjure with the following. The Sunday run that left from the Rugby Club on 26 September at 9.00 am covered 10.04 miles. This is a typical Sunday run with mixed going of track, road, field, stream, water meadow, dung, ditch, aircraft noise, badly driven cars, mad cyclists, dogs, golfers, cows and low level moaning from certain club members. If you don’t know how this particular run covers all these delights, the only way to learn it is to come on the run itself because it is known for short as ‘the fire station with the George variation’ and the actual route is obviously too complicated to explain in words. Life is too short to do so anyway. But we actually only ran 9.77 miles, the other 475 yards were walking, stile climbing, fence straddling and bog wading. How do I know this? The wonders of the Forerunner Garmin watch, of course, as sold by the Bear. The watch can be set to measure when you slow to walking pace. Ian Ashcroft has observed that the watch must have had a difficult time in my case, because, for me, running and walking are so close together. I have sworn revenge. However, personal feuds aside, something must have happened to the measurement system in the UK because I’m sure that the run (pre GPS watch) used to be 12 miles. You will recall the old ‘felt-like’ measurement system, as in “How far was that?” – “Felt like 12 to me…….”
Stephen
stephen.feber@btconnect.com