Morning Run: Better run up that hill
steevc just finished a 5.5km run, that lasted for 34 minutes.
This run helped steevc burn 387.0 calories.
Description from Strava:
I am still not managing to fit in that fourth weekly run, but I am doing some other exercises to try and build some strength. Today I was back on the West Drive hill for my intervals workout.
Today is overcast, but not too cold. Our solar panels may not do so well, but we are now getting paid for feeding into the grid. It took a few weeks to get that sorted out. I need to look at optimising the energy we store in the battery.
The first 'sprint' up the hill was hard work as always, but then I take a while to warm up. The next few were better and Strava reckons I was averaging about 5min/km. I am fairly happy with that. I need to keep doing this workout to improve the pace.
I saw a few of the regulars our there. There are a couple of bearded old guys I think of as the Hairy Hikers and a guy whose collie dog likes to walk between his legs. I just tent to nod or say 'good morning' to people. Some of them are used to seeing this old guy sweating.
I do not know exactly what this prickly-headed plant is, but I keep noticing it when I am up there.
I had a few podcasts on including Late Night Linux and The Life Scientific.
The Hive social platform I use is four years old this week. It came about when the Steemit blockchain had a hostile takeover. The community 'forked' it to create Hive and it keeps getting better. There is an app that takes my writeups from Strava to create posts which can earn for me. The corporate platforms are increasingly intrusive with excess advertising and censorship. Hive offers an alternative. Let me know if you want to try it.
Run free!
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About the Athlete: Older guy trying to keep fit, but still hope to go quicker.
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Nice. Keep motivating the Hive community :P
Keep going, you're smashing your training at the moment and getting stronger every day.
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Running in remote areas is as fun as it is painful
Wow man. A 5.5km run is something really great. I don't think if I can run this long in a single attempt
You are young, so I am sure you could do it if you did some training. It's really not that far.
That's awesome that the power company is paying you! I wish I could do that. Maybe after some of my alts hit. Today was my first day exercising again after taking a couple of days off due to the strep bacteria thing. It kicked my butt!
This is how the system will pay for itself. There are some 'smart' tariffs where they pay more at certain times of high demand, but we may not qualify for those. That may change.
Any bug will knock you back. Take it easy and recover.
Yeah, I will definitely need to look into solar in my next house!
My energy provider gives a relatively good deal, but it will vary a lot. All new houses ought to have some panels as that would be cheaper than adding later. In places that use a lot of a/c it would pay back quicker.
Yeah, I guess that definitely makes sense!
Is snow falls, you know it’s wet but does it have a way of affecting your solar panel?
Any idea?
If something blocks the sunlight then they don't work, but it doesn't snow much here. We do not rely on them, but we save or earn money when they are working.
Hill repeats can be brutal.
i sometimes listen to the Life Scientific on R4, it can be very good! Who was on the other day... some biologist who started off studying parasitic wasps, fascinating stuff!
That's the episode I'm on. I saw the show live at the Royal Society a few years back when Jim Al-Khalili himself got interviewed. I'm more interested in scientists than most celebrities.
It's not a big hill with a 6m climb over 300m, but it's enough to make me work harder. My legs just don't want to move much quicker.