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Days, weeks, months have come and gone without my Tuesday night team winning a game of 5-a-side football. Winning is not everyting. I really enjoy the running about but I was beginning to get very worried because I was the only thing in common on each occasion the team did not win. Each week the teams are changed. However tonight my team won. Emphatically. It felt glorious to finally break my duck. Now, where is my vuvuzela?
If you were in Finsbury park this morning you would have seen me racing around pushing a 3-year-old in a buggy. You might have mistaken us for a wacky racer. Hector managed to cover 5km (3.12 miles) in 26 minutes and 54 seconds for the Parkrun event without breaking a sweat according to the RunKeeper app on my broken but still usable iPhone.
I left my bike at work the previous day so caught the tube to work (which a hate doing) and cycled home. Just realised that Runtastic automatically pauses the app when you are not moving thus making my times seem so great. I was wondering why all my best times occurred when using this app!!
Distance: 6.91 Miles
Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds
iPhone App: Runtastic
Max Speed: 24.43mph
This morning, just as I finished my cycle to work, I dropped my iPhone attempting to stop the RunKeeper app. The realisation of dropping an iPhone on to a tarmac surface from a height is awful. Totally mortifed does not truly express how I felt. If only I could have reached for the Ctrl+z function (undo). My colleagues were very sympathetic and some even tried to comfort me with the suggestion it was a clever move considering the new iPhone 4 is to be release shortly. I felt hollow.
The iPhone still works (if you don’t mind risking shredding your fingers on the cracked glass). My time today was 31 minutes and 49 seconds covering a distance of 6.92 miles.
Not quite this bad…
Journey to work
Distance: 11.26km
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds
iPhone App: AllSportGPS (Nice little free GPS app)
Journey back home
Distance: 6.92 miles
Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
iPhone App: Runkeeper