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Drivers... They won't even follow the rules when a national treasure like McCartney is trying to cross the street, what hope for our kids?!
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Close call for @PaulMcCartney on the Abbey Road crossing!
In this clip from @MaryAMcCartney’s new documentary, a car narrowly misses Paul as he recreates the ‘Abbey Road’ album cover.
#IfTheseWallsCouldSing is now streaming worldwide on @DisneyPlus | bit.ly/3ijR8HJ
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I enjoyed this thread. Big fan of Drake's
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Looks like we're going to the Chilterns - thanks for everyone's input! Train to Tring, 12.5km of walking, and we can include on our route too. (Route planned on Strava)
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I'm thinking I'd like to take my 6yr old for a big hike one day over half term. Accessible by car/train from NE London, preferably with some elevation/views. Any suggestions? Peak District is probably a little far, and Box Hill still feels like London to me.
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These cheap Coospo chest straps work perfectly however. I've just ordered another - the first one lasted a couple of years no problem.
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Interesting how some bluetooth enabled heart rate monitors work with HRV4training, and others just don't. I can confirm that this Magene brand from Amazon DOES NOT work
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This is why I dislike spring marathons. Maybe it's different if you don't have kids, but as a parent, just staying healthy through the winter is an uphill struggle.
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At that stage of the winter where I catch a cold, recover, gradually return to running for five days or so, then pick up another cold. Time to give up on 'training' and just try to make it to March in some form of health.
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Kids TV has changed. Just overheard a show my 6yr old is watching:
"You're not arguing from a position of intellectual honesty so debating you would be POINTLESS!" <huge explosion>
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Lynn works for me. She is single & earns considerably less than 30k, lives in her dead mother’s house in Central Norwich, has no tertiary education, uses a bus pass for travelling to work saves money every month, goes on coach holidays & probably does not need to use a foodbank.
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Took Beckett to a comedy show for his sixth birthday and it made quite the impression on him/he made quite the impression on the show. This tweet is about him. Great fun. (I love these Comedy Club 4 Kids shows btw)
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Heheh, there is a birthday boy at our @WondervilleLive gig and his dream job is "PIG". @abigoliah is DELIGHTED for him. "You'll be a lovely meal one day."
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This works both ways too. When I'm really fit, I can be in Z2 right down to about 4:00/km. Mechanically that's HARD and it creates huge amounts of neuromuscular fatigue. It feels much more sustainable to go a bit further in Z1 at 4:40/km, and save the fast stuff for intervals
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I tell anyone who says "I hate running/jogging" that they are going too fast
Be able to have a full conversation. If that requires walking, then that's where you're at.
When people recommend zone 2 training for general population, for most it should mean go on a walk
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This is great from and highlights a real issue - from 's Culture Study annehelen.substack.com/p/when-did-fit
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I really like this piece we commissioned about stroller running fyi tracksmith.com/gb/journal/art
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I also really like this piece Tracksmith commissioned about stroller running
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I really like this piece we commissioned about stroller running fyi tracksmith.com/gb/journal/art
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1/ Can somebody at explain why they thought it appropriate to conclude, after a cyclist was killed by an unqualified, uninsured, drugged-up driver, that what Oxford really needs is cyclists with 'improved safety awareness'?
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I really like this piece we commissioned about stroller running fyi
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The session consists of 1600m at 10k pace, 2km tempo, 1200m around 5k pace, 2km tempo, 800m around 3k pace, 2km tempo, 400m all out. That's 10k of effort - Warhurst says effort should be around 8/10.
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I'd read and heard a lot about the Michigan workout that Ron Warhurst gets his athletes to do, and today me and gave it a go. Good times. We saw it as a broken tempo with a bunch of faster running in there which suits this time of year
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Don't think I'll ever get over the novelty of going to the tip by bike
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Wish I had discovered Simic earlier. This is a great interview.
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In remembrance of Charles Simic, who died yesterday, we have unlocked our Art of Poetry interview with him in issue no. 173. Simic served as the Review’s poetry editor from Summer 2005-Fall 2008.
theparisreview.org/interviews/550
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(This is a running metaphor btw)
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Sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you're the nail.
And sometimes you're a hammer and for whatever reason you're predestined to get battered by even bigger hammers. Like WTF?
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The gloom in London at 9:20am really is oppressive - as corroborated by this light meter app
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I can't help thinking that the slower mornings of the holidays, plus the darkness of midwinter is at least as responsible for everyone feeling so exhausted atm as all the illnesses going around.
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How well you slept last night and when you felt sleepy to go to bed, and how you felt on waking are MAINLY controlled by how early and how much sunlight you viewed before 10am in the preceding 2-3 days. Other factors matter but that’s the biggie folks.
Non-negotiable biology.
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I need answers, asaptually! 😂😂😂
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A little while ago I sat down to be a guest on Marcus Brown's A Runner's Life podcast. We chat training, family life and power of being part of an athletic community, among other things. It's available now -
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What's everyone taking to tame this flu then? My throat is raw...
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A little while ago I sat down to be a guest on Marcus Brown's A Runner's Life podcast. We chat training, family life and power of being part of an athletic community, among other things. It's available now -
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I’ve spent today, as I did last Thursday, helping out at a clothes donation drive for refugees and asylum seekers being housed at a nearby hotel. Here’s some of what I’ve learned:
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Mogg has a great point - you NEVER saw Australian wine in the shop in the UK before Brexit.
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"You're taking something that was working and now you're making it not work."
Wine industry director repeatedly shames Jacob Rees Mogg over Brexit on BBCQT
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Dying at the constant mom group threads about what to get childcare providers and teachers for a holiday gift. "A mug? A tote bag? A keychain???" The answer is always cold, hard cash. Don't overcomplicate it.
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Real honour to be asked by to take some photos for them on film. Nerve wracking but fun. And I love this shot of them.
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And this one by @andywaterman works really well on the homepage. The texture and tones of film are just 
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Bloody love our new team portrait! Thanks to the fabulous .
Now to add Santa hats for the Christmas card.
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Britain needs a pay rise.
Full support for striking nurses today ✊
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Hard agree
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Increasingly of the opinion that running coaches should be regulated. Unbelievable now the number of people with zero qualifications (but plenty of followers) setting themselves up.
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