The Sunday run
'Stadiums are for spectators' said Finnish veteran athlete Juha V????t??inen, 'we runners have nature and that is much better'.
After a recent meeting with our physiology guru Justin Roberts, the training programme for next year's expedition is starting to rev up, and to top the week off, Tony and I ran fifteen miles in Richmond Park this morning (apologies for the wobbly cameraphone photo). When I've been in the UK, the long, steady Sunday morning run has been part of my routine for yonks, but the interesting part about today's session was that we had to run it at a far slower pace than usual (aiming for an average heart rate of 130 bpm). Now, Tony and I are both pretty competitive, and I think I speak for him as well when I say there's very little that's as frustrating by being burnt up by mere joggers…
The expedition plans are still rumbling forward, but we're not yet at the point of launching the project to the media/public. As soon as we are, I'll be able to blog a little more freely about the masses of work that's going into it. The scale of the logistical operations alone dwarf those of my attempted solo/unsupported crossing of the Arctic Ocean this spring. And yes, for those of you following my last expedition, I'll be taking different ski boots…
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