Now there is a spotify client both for the Android and for the iPhone. The client can also sync music for offline listening. This is such great news, I can bring my playlists from spotify where me wherever I go and listen anywhere as long as there is space on my memory card everything should be dandy.
The iPhone version apparently stops playing in the background something Apple demanded it should do, but on the Android background playing works GREAT so now I can strem music while I jog and can set up the playlist on my computer at home or pretty much everywhere and then just sync it with my phone.
So now the phone not only tracks my workout times and distance using the GPS, it also plays the music to my mood and this is something I have been waiting for some time now.
Time to become a premium member, the ad-financed version of spotify does not cover the mobile version but I don’t care. 99 SEK for a month is nothing compared to the joy it is bringing…
From as of today I am back at work again. Yay, I have started to miss it so I guess my holiday was really good this year. I had five weeks off now and feel well rested.
Compared to last year when I only had two weeks off…
The first week on my new schedule went far over what I expected. It is really crazy but I have not felt so good with my running in a long time. There was no pains what so ever this week, and not really that much hardship out in the track either except that interval running which was tough but worked out really well.
So my first run this week was a shorter and slower run to just recover and this went well. I then did the intervals on Wednesday and that was really tough. Cardio and VO2 max training really. I put the intervals far too long to be effective, I will correct that for the next week. Instead of 10 min intervals with 2 min walks I will run 3/2 or 3/1 but based on my pulse rather than on time. I would then be able to run to 90% of maximum pulse and then walk it down to 80% or even 75% and then run it up to 90% again in intervals around the path I usually goes.
But the highlight this week was my fabulous long distance run. I set out slow, very slow, I got the advice to start ”silly slow” and then just very gradually pick up the speed after the first click or so. Which I did, I then kept the pulse around 155-160 and I really had to hold back the first couple of kilometers.
Then I entered the Zone. Seriously. The feet pounding the ground just disappeared around me and all I was aware of was my regular, but not too strained, breathing and I could go on for ever like this. Uphill was not a problem, I just increased the cadence and lowered the speed and downhill I compensated for the loss of time keeping the tempo around 8:45 per km. That’s really slow, about 25% faster than you walk at a good pace of course. But it does not matter by being able to keep this pace for a full hour and not stopping until the 7 km was up I got a really really good workout.
The best really. I feel it in my legs, my foot soles are a little hurting but not that bad. During the running however no pains at all. Nothing, just pure floating over the ground, the full moon above shining down on the forest path that I regularly work out on. Instead of the normal 2 laps I do I did 3 laps and then down to the water line.
Really great. I feel so great it’s difficult to describe it. Just… WOW!
Jag har telefonen med mig när jag löptränar. Jag har min MP3-spelare i telefonen, jag har min GPS och programvara som loggar löpningen och jag har nödtelefonen händig om jag skulle bryta ett ben eller bryta ihop eller nått mitt ute i skogen.
Men ibland blir det lustigt…
– <flås> ’Allå? <flås>
– Hej vi ringer från Dagens Nyheter, du har ju tidigare haft tidningen men avslutat din prenumeration hos oss. Därför undrar vi om du skulle vara intresserad av ett erbjudande…
– <flås> <flås> Nej tack <flås>
– Okay får man fråga varför… du… jag ringer inte olägligt eller så?
– <flås> lite <flås> kanske <flås> ute och springer <flås flås>
– Oh, haha, det lät som om jag hade kommit mitt i något heeelt annat.
– <flås> kan tro det <flås flås flås> men jag har inte <flås flås> riktigt tid <flås flås> att läsa <flås> morgontidning <flås> den blir <flås> mest liggande <flås flås> på hög <flås> så tack ändå.
– Okay, lugnt, ha det bra med springandet!
– <flås> tack hej <flås> <klick>
The Swedish newspaper Metro reports today that the US government is trying to pass a bill that gives them the right to shut down all private networks in a time of crisis.
This means of course they may use this a a means of protection in the age of cyberterrorism but they may also curtail the free word by shutting down these network they effectively makes it impossible for independent people to write blogs, and communicate with people around the globe.
The senator Jay Rockefeller have now turned over a modified version of the law to the US senate. If the law is passed the US President will be given the right to shut down all private networks in the event of a ”cybercrisis”.
Lite skämtsamt efter diskussionsforumen på Funbeat refereras det ibland till de tre huvudreglerna särskilt bland löparna (och ja det är ett skämt som visar på diversiteten bland deltagarna) på skoj alltså. Inte allvar.
Inget ämne är så trivialt att alla kan vara överens.
Om alla är överens kommer någon av dem ändra åsikt.
För övrigt sätter du i hälen för mycket när du springer för korta och/eller långa intervaller och ät mindre kolhydrater… och längre!
Funbeat är en sajt för träningsglada där man kan samla sin träning och statistik och diskutera med likasinnade. Det kostar inget att vara med, alla kan registrera sig och börja motionera.
Explore is a function of Flickr where amongs all the photographers that sends pictures to the site a few are selected (500 to be precise) on each day to be included in a kind of hall of fame called the Explore.
The exact criteria for when pictures are included is not known, in fact it is a well kept secret for it is fine-tuned all the time, if you have been in explore many times it gets harder to become picked, if you send a photo to many groups it can be harder but also the number of views, comments, fave markings you get contribute to your Explore score.
I really like this song it is one of the lovliest songs I have heard in a long time so I thought that I should share it with you here.
But of course the astute observer will see that Katie actually made an error on the size of the universe here. She was a bit embarrassed about that and if you check out this video of Michael Shermer talking on strange believes, Katie corrects her lyrics near the end of the talk!
Jag gissar att namnet syftar på filmen med samma namn [wikipedia] [IMDb] som innehåller en hel del sådana miljöer man letar efter som Urban Explorer. Jag hörde om detta forum från Jan Jörnmark, en av mina favoritfotografer och professor i ekonomisk historia. Han hade en föreläsning på Kungliga Myntkabinettet och efteråt fick vi en liten pratstund och han hänvisade då till forumet. Han har också refererat till det från sin grupp på Facebook.
Även om jag inte riktigt har tid att delta i forumet tycker jag då och då att det är intressant att läsa och titta på bilderna. Jag skulle gärna ägna mig mer åt UE själv men det finns gränser för vad man hinner med på sin fritid tyvärr och jag fotar gärna annat också.
