End of week 1!
>> Wednesday, 10 March 2010 –
Cap Ferrat,
Cote d'Azur,
couch25k,
France,
running,
St Jean,
Villefranche
I have done my first week of running; I get to move on to a new podcast on Friday! And I'm still not dead!
Things I have learnt this week, in no particular order:
- It's pretty much 5km between Villefranche and the bus stop at St Jean Cap Ferrat.
- There are a *lot* of hills between here and St Jean.
- The buses at St Jean don't run very frequently.
- It's not summer yet.
- A sweater is a good thing, especially if it has pockets.
- Porridge is actually surprisingly edible, if you don't look at it.
- Running really is faster than walking. Even at the snail's pace that I do it.
(First person to suggest a bum bag gets shot. This is not the 80s anymore.)
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I think that Those Who Do It Properly wear a small rucksacky-type thing, from what I have seen. As you know, I never really got into running - I don't count Sunday mornings with the HHH in Athens as running, mostly we walked the shortcuts and drank the beer at the end. Which is, of course, a lot more fun.
I'm sure there will be a branch of HHH near Nice. The drawback will be that it is formed mainly of expats....
I have one of those arm bands my ipod goes in. It has a little place I put a key and I have a id holder that I just jam in there. Works for me.
I thought about a rucksacky-type-thing, but those are likely to be hot too - it gets warm down here, remember!
An iPod armband thing might be a good idea - I didn't realise they came with a key holding space. Though our house is Fort Knox, so we have many keys I'd need to take - it might not work after all...
Who'd have thought something so minor could be this complicated?
Your mother, after initially responding with "bum bag" until I read out the last sentence in your blog, has amended it to there must be something equivalent to a bum bag these days which doesn't evoke the 80's (not that we were around the UK much in the 80's) to the latest suggestion which is "go to a sports shop and see what they've got" on the basis that it must be a common problem to which someone will have researched a perfect answer.
This is a good point. But sports shops scare me... I think I'll wait until the weather's actually warm enough that it's a problem, and do something about it then.