Filed under: British Military Fitness, St Albans, running gear | Tags: British Military Fitness, running gear, St Albans
I’m off to my home town, St Albans, tonight – and plan to do a British Military Fitness class with my little brother and his local group tomorrow morning. I’ve bought a new pair of Salomon running tights especially. It’s due to be a bit parky.
Anyway, our parents have just informed us that they intend to come and watch the class. My brother are I are approaching 30 and 32 years of age respectively.
Is it rather sweet that they still take such an interest in our sporting pursuits?
Or just a bit embarrassing?
Filed under: Bupa Great Capital Run, St Albans half marathon, nike+ sportband, running, running gear | Tags: nike+ sportband, running, running gear
Judging by the number of hits I’m getting on my previous post on the subject of calibrating the Nike+ Sportband, there are a few other people out there struggling to make theirs work.
The weird thing is, after calibrating it once and being convinced it was nowhere near accurate, I’ve worn it for a couple of accurately measured races and discovered that it’s actually not far off the pace. It measured 12.56 miles for at the St Albans half marathon, and 5.86 miles for the Bupa Great Capital10k. I haven’t re-calibrated it at all.
So, my advice is, try calibrating it over a short distance – then wear it for a couple of longer runs that are accurately measured, and see what it says. Maybe I was just having an off day and thought I’d gone further than I actually had…
Have a look at this, courtesy of a colleague at work who circulated this by email (to the boys and girls). Now hands up who put in their own/girlfriend’s/wife’s bust size, then repeated the exercise with the FF+G option. Yeah, me too.
Drifting into my day job for a moment, this is an absolutely fantastic example of viral marketing by Shock Absorber. You just have to send it to someone else/blog about it/smile.
And of course it is proof, if it were needed, that even small girls need proper support. Larger ladies risk serious injury without it…
