Demian’s Blog

Made an important discovery this afternoon – I guess I already knew this but it became really obvious again.  I think it’s better to run without music or, in my case, spoken podcasts, because it stops you from concentrating on decent running technique.
My footfalls were getting quite heavy and my knees let me know they [...]

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I guess this is not exactly a revelation, however one point that stood out for me from this recent Financial Times article was the correlation between body weight and chances of getting cancer.  The findings of the World Cancer Research Fund are summarised in these recommendations:

be as lean as possible within the normal range of [...]

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Just ran the Bobby Moore 5km Run, it was a lot more informal than the City v. City race, no times, refreshments, sensor-equipped ankle bracelets ..  And another hike, again out to Blackheath!
Anyway, according to the guy next to me who had a fancy watch, we finished in 22.05, not too bad for an old [...]

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This is Pedro and I at the finish line in Norwich Union’s City v. City race, was quite challenging, uphill both ways!
I finished 5 minutes ahead of the “average” time with 00:50:58.
Or, less glamourously, in 495th place! 

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