Links for January 17th through January 18th
Some links for you:
- When to Create Project Instructions | Project Management Tips – (via @riprap007) – worth it just for the illustration accompanying the article.
- Learning through Digital Media – "The simple yet far-reaching ambition of this collection of essays is to discover how to use digital media for learning on campus and off."
- The lightning talks at Culture Hack Day – Great round up by Chris at Meshed Media of talks at the Culture Hack Day in London – lots of links
London Marathon 2011 – training and stuff
Not done a running update on here for a while so here goes. Having skipped a year last year I’m now training for another go at the London Marathon on April 17th 2011. Here’s some info:
Training:
I keep a spreadhseet of my training, I’m that sad. This year I’m trying to be a bit stricter with myself and commit to run 6 days a week. The plan is as follows:
- Mondays – 10 miles race pace
- Tuesday – easy run from work (about 8 miles)
- Wednesday – easy run to work
- Thursday – hills or speed training
- Friday – rest
- Saturday – long run, sometimes with a Parkrun in the middle of it
- Sundays – slow 4 – 6 miles
Overall this will take me to about 50-60 miles a week maximum once I’m at full stretch with the long runs. The run to/from work is going well. I found where the showers are at work and have a locker so can sneak in lunchtime runs if I want.
Sponsorship
I don’t want your money. Really, no thanks. You gave before and were generous, let’s skip a year. However, my Brother-in-law Steve is looking for donations for a very worthy cause so if you were thinking of sponsoring me then please put the money his way instead – tell him Dave sent you.
Digital stuff
Other than the spreadsheet, I track my runs via a GPS enabled watch (Garmin Forerunner 405) which then feeds a twitter account @daveharteruns. A link to the data gets tweeted every time I upload a run or you can subscribe to an RSS feed of the runs.
Diet
As usual I shall be eating more chips.
Injuries
I’ve been a bit hampered by an aching buttock/hip for about 18 months so it was with some relief that just before Christmas I finally had a name put to it. According to my physio I have Piriformis Syndrome. To alleviate it I do some focused stretching and at the distances I’m running right now it’s an annoying niggle and no more. When I get into the 20 mile long runs that may not be the case; we’ll see.
Other running blogs I’m reading at the moment.
- Karen Strunks is building up her distance and messing about with GPS on the way, worth a read – http://abitmoreofkaren.blogspot.com/
- Paul Bradley at the Birmingham Mail writes a very useful and insightful blog about his running – http://blogs.birminghammail.net/roadrunner/
- Current student at Birmingham City University, Iban Gonzalez, is training for the Edinburgh half marathon in May – http://halfmarathonrunner.posterous.com/
- Former student, Leland Strott is using running to regain her fitness – http://strottiesays.com/
- Hilary Carden is training for the Brighton Marathon – http://kissweetheart.wordpress.com/
Links for December 31st through January 10th
Some links for you:
- Obama London: Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin's Facebook Page – "In the wake of the terrible events in Arizona, with many commentators pointing out the obvious fact that Gabrielle Giffords had been targetted by Palin in the November election on a map that used a chilling gun site graphic, I thought it would be worth watching her page for a little while to see if her team were indeed deleting negative comments routinely."
- More than 140 Coworking spaces in Europe : Here is a list | Coworking Europe 2010 – As it says on the tin – list of coworking spaces across Europe
- Net Gen Skeptic: Digital Learners in Higher Education: Generation is Not the Issue – "The idea that generation explains how young people use digital technologies and that these "digital natives" are fundamentally different from the older "digital natives" in how they use and understand technology has been successfully debunked."