Monday, 18 August 2014

PB and ICE ID

Cant do a PB every thine I suppose.  Park Run was completed in 21mins 30secs.  It wasn't too bad a time actually considering that it was 10 seconds off my PB, that I had ran a 10km PB the evening before, and that it was very windy.  I mean even for Edinburgh Park Run it was very windy.  In the words of the official race report, "Mr wind was in da house".  :-/

Here's me running that super windy race - why do I always have my eyes closed in race photos?


Note the swept back hair - weather induced and not deliberate! Who's the smiley guy two behind me?  Why can't I look like that in race photos?  He's either the world's happiest runner or else he's not trying hard enough!

Also on the way back from the Park Run, I went by the post office to collect my RoadID wrist band (not a bracelet, definitely not a bracelet).  Here it is.  


It's like a little collar for cats but for joggers.  I think you can buy a bell attachment so you can't sneak up on cyclists.  

When reading The Runners Rule Book there was a section on wearing ID bracelets wrist bands when out running.  The author said that he always wears one when he runs and that so should you.  I thought this was good advice.  Twice through a combination of exhaustion and stupidity I have ran out on to the road in front of a car and both times I actually thought to myself that I should carry ID in case my luck runs out.  I didn't know that ID bracelets wrist bands existed and now that I own one I will be wearing it all the time.  I have tested it out a couple of times now and it is comfortable to run in. Hopefully I will never need it but now that I am running EVERY DAY, I suppose I am statistically more likely to have an accident or fall ill while running.  At £12 plus P&P it's a no-brainer.    



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