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I forgot to mention in my last post, when we arrived at Roath Park and parked up, we were charged at by a vicious pack of angry man-eating geese. That was incentive enough to get running!!

Myself and Rhys went for another run this morning following on from our monumental and quite possibly world-beating performance from last week. We first went over to Cefn-Onn Park again and gave that a shot. We managed a few laps though it proved far more difficult this time than the last. I used the iPhone’s GPS to track the run using TrailGuru which ties in directly to their website. It works an absolute treat. I haven’t quite worked out how to embed the map into this post yet but I’ll work on it. We then decided to pop over the Roath Park and give that one a shot. We managed a full lap and then to finish we completed a shortened version of it. 

You can view the tracks we run today by clicking here. For the Cefn-Onn route I just left GPS run and do its thing (including the breaks we took). For the Roath Park run I recorded exactly 1 lap but didn’t use GPS for the shortened lap.

Overall I’d say we did about 6 miles in total today. Not bad at all. My ribs and hips are really hurting me again, I’m convinced it’s because I simply don’t use them very often and I’m suddenly putting huge stress on them. I’m probably going to need to get some proper running shoes if I’m going to keep this up as I doubt the trainers I have are doing me any favours (though they are comfortable to run in). I’m beginning to see how important it is to make sure you breathe properly when running - the first lap of Cefn Onn was a killer because I wasn’t taking deep enough breaths and my chest felt like it was going to combust. As soon as I realised what I was doing wrong it sorted itself out.

I’m really happy with my progress, I never thought I’d actually enjoy running as much as I am.

A couple of mates and me decided to go for a run this morning in a bid to become the next… running person. So we took off to a nice park close to where I live and gave it a shot. The three of us managed different laps/distances, and I managed to complete 5 laps which works out at about 7 miles. Not bad going for someone who classes himself as crap at long distance running and generally not in a good shape.

I actually really enjoyed the run today, it’s far better when you’ve got someone to keep you company a push you a bit further.

Well here I am, attempting to post from this clunky java app called Qumana from the Mac. If it can post with images without epic failing then I’ll be pleased. If there’s a picture of me below then you know it’s worked!

For no reason other than sheer laziness, I’ve not posted anything for what seems like ages. I’ve been up to quite a lot and it feels like i’ve not really had much time to write about it though that probably isn’t the case in reality. Having a terrible memory I can’t really remember anything exciting that’s really happened - I’ve managed to sell both my Nokia E90 and the Sony Vaio laptop so have bought myself a new toy! The Canon 450D DSLR uber camera of ultimate win. I’ve wanted to get into photography ‘properly’ for ages now as I’ve always really enjoyed it. I’ve taken some very good shots with fairly cheap digital cameras in the past and have finally decided to get off my increasingly-fat arse and get myself a grownup camera. I’ll be posting some of the photos that I take with it and blogging about my latest hobby so stay tuned.

Here’s a bit of stylish parking that we saw when coming from the cinema the other day.