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#janathon Day 27

~ Phil Lengthorn ~ 2 Comments

Janathon Day 27….4 days to go

My calves were feeling a little bit tight at work this afternoon, not surprising since I’ve run for 26 days on the bounce. Therefore, tonight’s run would be a nice gentle one around the woods with the dog. Although after about a mile the legs had loosened up and I felt like running further, all that stopped me was the light. Running around Bourne Woods in the dark is a creepy experience and one I did not want to face tonight!

Thanks to twitter we have a plan to celebrate janathon – my input will be an ‘N’ – now to decide where….

Summary
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Distance: 2.32mi
Time taken: 00:21:53
Average/Max Speed : 6.35/7.83 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:09:27/00:07:39
Calories: 273

Total janathon mileage after day 27 = 108.63 miles

…..jokeathon…..I’m pleased to say you only have 4 more days of this left….

Me and the wife had an argument today because she gave me a cup of tea that was black, cloudy and had sparks flying out of it.

It was a storm in a tea cup.

 

#janathon Day 26

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Janathon Day 26 – 100+ miles

Over 100 miles completed in the last 26 days!

Tonight’s run was ‘endurance training’ with the club. Which actually seems to mean just running a bit slower than you’re used to – the clubs ‘coach’ gave me a pace of around 8.45 per mile.  At this point in janathon that sounds like what I need (legs feeling very tired). To celebrate passing the 100 mile point, and taking the lead from @copy7t and @rencestar here is my attempt at some #runart:

‘Running Man’…..ok…..so it’s not the best piece of art ever created, and I know the arms are a tad short – but it was the best I could do – unless jumping over back gardens is allowed!

@timcnicholls has also had the fantastic idea of spelling out ‘#janathon’ in a #runart style – each person taking a separate letter – bagsy having an ‘N’!

So two sets of stats: runart and club training:

Summary
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Distance: 2.51mi
Time taken: 00:21:05
Average/Max Speed : 7.14/9.42 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:08:24/00:06:22
Calories: 297

Summary
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Distance: 6.18mi
Time taken: 00:55:18
Average/Max Speed : 6.70/9.86 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:08:57/00:06:05
Calories: 727

Total janathon mileage after day 26 = 106.31 miles

…..jokeathon….

Q. Your riding a horse at full speed, a giraffe is beside you, an elephant in front of you and a lion behind you! What do you do???

A. You get your drunk ass off of the carousel !!

#janathon Day 24

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Janathon Day 24 – 90+ miles!

Club training night – which means hard work – tonight was no exception:

  • Warm-up
  • 5 x 1 mile reps (with 3min recovery)
  • Cool-down

Worked hard on the mile reps – all around 7min per mile – last effort was a 6.35 mile.

Summary
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Distance: 5.85mi
Time taken: 00:55:28
Average/Max Speed : 6.33/10.51 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:09:29/00:05:42
Calories: 679

Total janathon mileage after day 24 = 94.44 miles

#janathon Day 22

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Janathon Day 22 

Sunday, traditionally a runner’s long run day, and today was no exception. What with the St. Valentines 30k fast approaching I needed to start increasing the mileage. Sounds slightly odd considering that I’ve run everyday for the last 21 but I’ve only been running 3-4 miles a night. I needed a good gentle long run today…..

My first issue was where to go; I wanted to take the dog and I wanted to go somewhere different from Bourne Woods. I had a couple of possibilities: Twyford Woods or Rutland Water. Decided on Twyford Woods because the dog hates sheep – Rutland Water has loads of sheep. We have been to Twyford Woods once before, although on that occasion it was a very weird experience: strange men, creepy goings-on, enough said. But surely 9am on a fresh and cloudy Sunday morning would be different.

Twyford Woods is described as an “interesting ancient woodland site”, I would have to disagree, unless you find this interesting:

The website also told me some more ‘interesting’ facts: “it was a second world war airfield, RAF North  Witham, and still retains many military artifacts”, again I had trouble finding these ‘military artifacts’, unless this is one:

However there was one ‘interesting’ piece of information that I thought would be worth having a look at, “derelict control tower”. Having arrived at the wood and discovered that no maps or information was available I went in search of said “derelict control tower”. Now call me stupid, but I didn’t think I would have much trouble finding an old world war two control tower. How wrong was I. Firstly, I did a sort of run around the edge of the airfield in an attempt to spot it, it must be quite tall right? Wrong. Spotted this, but even in the 1940s surely Britain could do better:

So a different tactic was needed. This time I began criss-crossing the runways in search of some sort of man-made structure, and found this:

Although, a ramp 3ft off the ground hardly counts as a airfield control tower, even if it was ‘derelict’. By now I was 7 or so miles into the run and decided to give up looking for a control tower in favour of a much more childish idea. The runways were massive so I began weaving across them in an attempt to make it show up on the map of run from freerunning (it didn’t work – see below). By now I had 8 miles under my belt and began heading back to car park when, the clouds parted and sun rays lite up a distant control tower, as if a sign from God…..

As I got closer I realised it was very derelict and only two stories high, I thought it might be taller:

At that point my long gone teenage boy instincts reappeared – must go inside! So I spent 5mins exploring, it would make a great film setting (Blair Witch came to mind)….

………..and of course time was spent pretending I was ‘Wing Commander Lengthorn’ on the observation platform…………’You are clear for take-off’…….’Chocks Away!.

Overall, it was an interesting morning, but I would like to leave the last word to the local vandals:

…enough said.

Summary
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Distance: 9.41mi
Time taken: 01:25:16
Average/Max Speed : 6.62/8.39 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:09:04/00:07:09
Calories: 1088

Total janathon mileage after day 22 = 85.95 miles

…..jokeathon…in a RAF style…

Q: How do you know you are talking to an RAF pilot?

A: After 2 hours he will say, “Anyway that’s enough about me, tell me about yourself”.

#janathon Day 21

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Janathon Day 21 (10 days to go)

This morning’s run was a lovely gentle run around Bourne Woods, well it was lovely as long as you ignored the drizzle. The plan today was just a gentle dog jog – and the way my legs were aching this morning I had no intention of changing it. Tomorrow’s run will be a long one.

Dog walkers passed = loads

Horses passed = 2

Horses passed that dog ignored = 2 (janathon must be getting to the dog as well because normally he goes crazy when he sees horses)

Car accidents that involved lamp-posts = 1

Summary
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Distance: 2.56mi
Time taken: 00:21:34
Average/Max Speed : 7.11/8.60 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:08:26/00:06:58
Calories: 302

Total janathon mileage after day 21 = 76.53 miles

….jokeathon….

Q. Did you hear about the guy who lost his left arm and leg in a car crash?
A. He’s all right now.

Janathon Causes Madness

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It has been reported that Janathon, the brainchild of @jogblog, has been causing strange behaviour across the country. Janathon participants have reportedly been starting to ‘lose their marbles’.

One such participant, @phillengthorn, was witnessed running in the rain. He was seen sitting in his car during a heavy storm. An onlooker said, “I thought he was waiting for the rain to ease, but after only a couple of minutes he exited the car and began running round the woods”.  The witness, who wants to remain anonymous, went on to say, “this man must be crazy – it was tipping down!” We have since spoken to @phillengthorn’s neighbours, Mr and Mrs Arguetoomuch who said, “we thought there was something strange about him….but didn’t realise it had got this bad – running everyday in January seems a crazy thing to do!” They went on to say, “he never runs in the rain – something is seriously wrong!”

Reports have been coming in from all over the country of janathon participants behaving abnormally and been seen running everyday since 1st January. Furthermore,  people have been heard saying, “it’s becoming a habit,” and “I’ll miss the routine of it” – clearly these people have lost all sense of reality and need help.

Janathon participants are required to jog, log and blog about their daily runs. This has lead to families being split apart by participants sitting in front of computers for hours on end to blog their latest adventures. Consequently, a new phenomenum began to sweep through the blogs….jokeathon, lyricathon, factathon…..there seems no end to the madness.  But, the last straw,  was the rumour of ‘Febathon’ that has prompted psychologists from all over the world to step in. They are advising friends and families of janathon participants to do anything in their power to stop the madness – hiding trainers has had the biggest effect.

A statement from the Police Countrywide Task Force stated, “Operation Janathon is well under way and arrests are imminent, we will not allow people to be brain-washed in this manner.” Latest reports suggest @jogblog has gone to ground.

Janathon Day 20

Summary
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Distance: 3.24mi
Time taken: 00:28:34
Average/Max Speed : 6.81/8.67 mph
Average/Min Pace : 00:08:49/00:06:55
Calories: 382

Total janathon mileage after day 20 = 73.98 miles