Ros & Pete

2nd Nov 2008 - 4.5 Mile White Horse Chase - 00:36:23

Pete — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:46:43 +0000

4 November, 2008
10:00 am

Round one of the clubs winter league saw about 20 people freezing their butts off in the middle of Balsall Common. The route was a 4.5mile loop all on road, and mostly flat.

Being in group A (the slow ‘uns) we set off 5mins ahead of the others. It was only a small group but I was paranoid that I didn’t want to be at the front… kind of pointless really as about 15 seconds into the saw me powering to the, mainly courtesy of my mind remembering how fast I was running in the previous days interval session and totally forgetting how ill/ sore I felt shortly after.

I managed to build up around a 50m lead whilst I settled my pace down to the target of between 4.50min /km 5.00 min/km.

1 Mile… so far so good… on target… no pain… still in lead…

I don’t tend to run in my glass’s as they steam up which isn’t usually a problem as I can see the road, cars etc however I was struggling to read the small sign ahead of me… I slowed right down to examine it… “Dammit!… it says carry on”.

2 Mile… still going fairly well.. pace dropped a little… but still hovering around the 5min /km target… ut-oh can here footsteps behind

2.5 Mile… overtaken… bugger…. Ahh.. at least I can follow someone… ouch my shins hurt

3 Mile over taken by Rich, he’s in fast group… that’s ok… Christ he’s flying…

3.5 Mile… OMG how long is this mile (yeah I know its only one… but even so).. still on target with average pace of 4.58min/km

3.8 Mile… noooo overtaken by another group A…. must stick with her…sod it give up… no must keep going….

4 Mile… Finally!

4.2 Mile… Woot… 200m left… still on shoulder of person that passed me half a mile ago… time to turn on the pace…. Wooot Im flying…..

4.5 Mile ahh finished… 5 seconds ahead of my target person, average of 5.0 min/ km ooo maybe a sub 50 10k is possible…

Overall really pleasing race as it proved to me that Im on target with my training. I don’t feel that my next 10k will be a sub 50.. but its going to be bloody close.

Final Result 4.5 miles in 36.23

EDF ENERGY BIRMINGHAM

Pete — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:48:22 +0000

26 October, 2008
9:30 am	to	12:00 pm

On 26th October 2008 Birmingham will stage its first ever half marathon organised by Birmingham City Council and this historic Race Against Climate Change is sponsored by
EDF Energy.

The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon, which is 13.1 miles long, will start outside the Birmingham Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, a fitting venue given that the stadium has hosted numerous international and national athletic events.
The runners will then make their way into Birmingham City Centre and will finish on Broad Street next to Centenary Square.
Everyone who takes part in the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon will receive an official t-shirt and a medal.
To enter the event now click on the ‘enter online’ button at the top of this page.

More Info

Xtreme Terrain 10

Pete — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:42:09 +0000

27 September, 2008
8:30 am	to	9:30 am

Twice around the 5k track, all multi terrain with slight inclines and trails. This course uses the same tracks as the other Festival events. Although not particularly hilly it is wonderful scenary to run across with some fast gravel tracks and slower heathland trials.

Xtreme Terrain 10

Stoppies on a VFR =(

Pete — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:33:18 +0000

Well yesterday morning i discovered that stoppies on my VFR are baaaaaaaad.

Coming up to a round about the nice transit van infront of me decided that he was going to go, and then stop. I slammed on my brakes which cased me to do a stoppie and then as the back landed i lost my ballance and dropped the bike.

No injuries to me (except a pulled muscle from picking the bike up), however the bike came away with a broken clutch..

Rescue came in the form of a nice man, a very nice man, a very very nice man… from The AA.

Ahh well…

RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

Pete — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:37:08 +0000

Ok so i thought it would be a good idea to write an RSS feed reading into the project that im currently working on.

Based on this i found the following code:



Public Shared Function ProcessRSS(ByVal rssURL As String, ByVal feed As String) As String

Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(rssURL)

Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()

Dim sb As New StringBuilder("")

Dim rssStream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream()

Dim rssDoc As New XmlDocument()

rssDoc.Load(rssStream)

Dim rssItems As XmlNodeList = rssDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item")

Dim title As String = ""

Dim link As String = ""

Dim upperlimit As Integer = rssItems.Count

If upperlimit > 5 Then

upperlimit = 5

End If

If upperlimit > 0 Then

sb.Append("" + feed + "


“)

Dim i As Integer = 0

While i < upperlimit

Dim rssDetail As XmlNode

rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode(”title”)

If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then

title = rssDetail.InnerText

Else

title = “”

End If
rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode(”link”)

If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then

link = rssDetail.InnerText

Else

link = “”

End If

sb.Append(”
” + title + “
“)

i += 1

End While

sb.Append(”")

End If

Return sb.ToString()
this is all good and seams to work.. except i needed to add a proxy logon:

request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

oooo New and Shiney

admin — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:33:47 +0000

Im still trying to figure out whats going on with this wordpress thing, so please bare with me.

It may take me a few days to get all of the piccys back up aswell