Five Fingers? Cold feet? Sorted!!

While running in Vibram Five fingers is liberating and feels better than running in trainers.......you do get cold toes!

Found a solution though!!

Angora sole inserts!

They stay warm even when wet!!!!

Problem sorted!!!

Yesterdays run!

Yesterday we had some random lovely sun shine! So decided to go for a nice long run!

Went up to the Ashridge Monument and commenced my normal run (pausing for a little photo opp!

As you can see, fantastic weather for a run! Went all the way down to invinghoe beacon but instead of turning around and heading back, I felt pretty good to attempt the 16 mile round trip of the Ashridge boundary trail.

Map in hand and the wonder of the trail markers left by the lovely people of the national trust I headed off towards the hills. 

However as with all best made plans, things went wrong! I must have missed a marker or something, ended up running a couple of miles in the wrong direction!!! Mood heading downward I followed my map back towards the trail. Saw loads of deer on the way and found myself back at the monument, figured that someone up there didn't want me to do the full 16 miles so I stuck with completing a nice 8.72 mile route.

Satisfaction achieved!!

Five Fingers down!!!!!!!!!

My poor Vibram Five fingers took a beating last weekend entering the Hellrunner, hell down south!

My personal damage healed pretty quickly. Its only taken a few days for my calves to recover and my left foot is fine now!

However..............my vibrams............have ripped!!!!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
2 Months they've lasted! Gutted!

Ok as you see the tear isn't too bad! However its still bad! I love my shoes!!

God bless my textiles lessons in my middle school days! I can sew, they fore the damage has been sorted!

Time will tell, going for a run after work tomorrow. Hopefully the sewing will hold, watch this space!

Hellrunner!

Yesterday I, with a couple of thousand others, ran the 10 to 12 miles of Hellrunner - Hell Down

I did the same run 2 years ago, however this year I think route has been changed and is now a lot harder!!!! Not only because i was wearing my vibrams!

Me and my mates completed it within the 2 hour limit!! I think that's not bad!
More pics to come!

Plan "Z"

I've been watching quite a lot of zombie related end of the world stuff recently, its got me thinking about it (cheery person that I am)!
Maybe its all the mayan, end of the world, 2012 stuff we've all been hearing about (so they stopped they're calendar! We don't all go mad if Take That don't bring out one next year!)
Anyway, from watching the walking dead, dawn of the dead, other of the dead films, 28 days later (come on, they are zombies no matter what people say) and reading World War Z I think I'm now clued up enough for a Zombie defence list!

So hear we go: - this is based on the idea you are dealing with the slow moving ones from walking dead and resident evil

1. Location: not a shopping mall!!! Too much glass and too many entrances! Plus if the outbreak occurs during the day you'll have loads of walkers lurking! Try a housing estate that you can easily build defences around, avoid farms! Large open spaces = hard to defend against large herds.
2. Make friends with a cop or volunteer as a special so you know where a good cash of weapons and protective gear are! Also a police station would make a location to hold up in.
3. Canned goods! Find a supermarket, break into the offices and find they're distribution centre! Either that or go to your local Costco!! Bulk loot for the zombie apocalypse!!!
4. Safety in numbers! The more people you have the more undead you can take out! Although, be prepared to lose a fair few people!
5. Sorry to say this but.......as its the zombie apocalypse, prepare for the inevitable............you and your mates are probably going to peg it. Unless you're very very flukey and build an impressive line of defence! Or some random brainiac turns up with a cure and saves us all! We're waiting Mr Hawking!!!!

Well hopefully this list may prepare you! Enjoy!

Been a while.......

Been away a little recently, blogger was sadly not on my mind.

Few things have been going on, been injured which annoyed the hell out of me, been a bit on the busy side of things at work and the world spins on.

Got hellrunner down south this weekend which I've actually trained for this time! Did it 2 years ago and managed a time of about 1 hour 55 mins! Hope to do better this time! Running in my vibram five fingers! Wish me luck!