Here is what I drew:
There's nothing like a bit of #runart before breakfast.
6.8km
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Showing posts with label runart. Show all posts
Sunday, 29 January 2012
You're having a... (Janathon day 29)
I got up early on Sunday morning and was pretty excited that I had a #runart attempt lined up. I got into my starting position and headed off.
Here is what I drew:
There's nothing like a bit of #runart before breakfast.
6.8km
Here is what I drew:
There's nothing like a bit of #runart before breakfast.
6.8km
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Riddlesdown parkrun thirty-three and an H (Janathon day 28)
We all know what happens at parkrun, I do end up telling the same story over and over again, but it's what I do in these posts..
So for what it's worth..
I ran the first kilometre at a nice easy pace with Pete, then I headed off at my own pace.
The ground was wet and the mud was very slippery. In some sections most of the effort I put in was wasted as my feet slipped around underneath me. I caught up to and passed many people over the next four kilometres and somehow during my last kilometre I was only about 20 seconds off my 5k pb pace from last September.
I stood around chatting for a loooooong time after the run had finished and when I tried to find Mrs7t, I couldn't. She had already gone to the pub.... with the car key!! So I had to go all the way to the pub to pick the key up and then walk all the way back to the car. I say 'all the way' but it is only a few hundred metres. It was fine.
On the way to the pub I found a little lost dog who answers to the name 'Molly', she was wandering very close to the road and she looked like she was lost. I knelt down and had a chat with her and when I asked her to follow me I was happy that she did (I don't have much dog experience so this is probably just normal). Once we were back at the entrance to the downs she spotted her owners and ran off on their direction. They looked pleased to see her.
Once all the parkrun things had drawn to a close we headed off to Tonbridge, but before arriving home I had a very special task to complete.
An idea grew out of the runart project. The idea was for nine janathoners to each draw a letter using their GPS tracking so that we could spell out the word 'janathon', of course janathon only has eight letters.. The ninth was for the hashtag. I had been lucky enough to be given responsibility for creating the 'H', so we stopped off at the cemetary so that I could draw it. Once all of the letters are complete I'll put up a collage on the runart blog.
So for day 28 of Janathon I ran the following
5km (23:55) at parkrun
0.8km drawing the H
5.8km
So for what it's worth..
I ran the first kilometre at a nice easy pace with Pete, then I headed off at my own pace.
The ground was wet and the mud was very slippery. In some sections most of the effort I put in was wasted as my feet slipped around underneath me. I caught up to and passed many people over the next four kilometres and somehow during my last kilometre I was only about 20 seconds off my 5k pb pace from last September.
I stood around chatting for a loooooong time after the run had finished and when I tried to find Mrs7t, I couldn't. She had already gone to the pub.... with the car key!! So I had to go all the way to the pub to pick the key up and then walk all the way back to the car. I say 'all the way' but it is only a few hundred metres. It was fine.
On the way to the pub I found a little lost dog who answers to the name 'Molly', she was wandering very close to the road and she looked like she was lost. I knelt down and had a chat with her and when I asked her to follow me I was happy that she did (I don't have much dog experience so this is probably just normal). Once we were back at the entrance to the downs she spotted her owners and ran off on their direction. They looked pleased to see her.
Once all the parkrun things had drawn to a close we headed off to Tonbridge, but before arriving home I had a very special task to complete.
An idea grew out of the runart project. The idea was for nine janathoners to each draw a letter using their GPS tracking so that we could spell out the word 'janathon', of course janathon only has eight letters.. The ninth was for the hashtag. I had been lucky enough to be given responsibility for creating the 'H', so we stopped off at the cemetary so that I could draw it. Once all of the letters are complete I'll put up a collage on the runart blog.
So for day 28 of Janathon I ran the following
5km (23:55) at parkrun
0.8km drawing the H
5.8km
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
#runart (Janathon day 25)
On day 25 I decided that I would attempt to create a new piece of #runart. One that I could be proud of, not like the other two lame attempts!
Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce you to 'trafalgar (man)'....
We have a brand new blog in which we will upload all of out runart attempts. It can be found ---> here
Janathon stats:
3.2km (18:30)
Ladies and gentlemen I would like to introduce you to 'trafalgar (man)'....
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| Trafalgar (man) |
Janathon stats:
3.2km (18:30)
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Animals (Janathon day 22)
Because my hamstrings needed a rest I had already run all the miles that I wanted to run this week I thought it would be fun to play around with some GPS drawings instead of going for a real run. It also gave my legs a chance to have a bit more recovery time.
Firstly, I should explain the story behind this. A few days ago @buriyako posted a link to one of his runs and I noticed that it looked like an ant-eater. In the conversation that followed we decided that we would embark on an animal-themed GPS drawing challenge. @buriyako then posted another run where he had drawn a rhino. It was awesome.
So onto today. It was my turn to try to draw something, I had a look at the road map of Tonbridge to see if anything stood out. After a while I spotted that I could also draw a rhino (but not quite as cool as @buriyako's).
So here is my first effort at drawing an animal using the roads of Tonbridge, I know it's not great but I was working with the roads that are there..
As that was a very short run I thought I might as well go a little further to make it worth the effort of going out. So I headed off down the high street to attempt to draw a snake..
The body is a bit too slim, but I did at least make an attempt at drawing the head (the part at the 1km mark).
I am now hard at work looking for other animals to draw on the roads. However, it would probably be better to find an large open space and try something freehand. Watch this space for more, and hopefully better, animals in the future.
1.7km for the rhino
2.1km for the snake
3.8km of recovery running (approx 20 minutes in total)
Firstly, I should explain the story behind this. A few days ago @buriyako posted a link to one of his runs and I noticed that it looked like an ant-eater. In the conversation that followed we decided that we would embark on an animal-themed GPS drawing challenge. @buriyako then posted another run where he had drawn a rhino. It was awesome.
So onto today. It was my turn to try to draw something, I had a look at the road map of Tonbridge to see if anything stood out. After a while I spotted that I could also draw a rhino (but not quite as cool as @buriyako's).
So here is my first effort at drawing an animal using the roads of Tonbridge, I know it's not great but I was working with the roads that are there..
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| a rhino, yes really! |
As that was a very short run I thought I might as well go a little further to make it worth the effort of going out. So I headed off down the high street to attempt to draw a snake..
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| a snake, but I think I need to find a wider road for the body |
The body is a bit too slim, but I did at least make an attempt at drawing the head (the part at the 1km mark).
I am now hard at work looking for other animals to draw on the roads. However, it would probably be better to find an large open space and try something freehand. Watch this space for more, and hopefully better, animals in the future.
1.7km for the rhino
2.1km for the snake
3.8km of recovery running (approx 20 minutes in total)
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