Run No. 78. The last run of 2011

The 31 December 2011, it's the last day of the year. Also, it has been one month since my last run, that's incredible! What did I do last month?! The day is ideal, sunny, 15 degree, no wind... so why not finish this year with a run!

Slowly, I finished 7.5kilo, so did my iPhone (what a surprise!)

Oh yes, it's with the Nike+'s last update, version 3.3, released at 19th Dec. However, it does not seem to be the reason why it finished the run, it's really a problem of iPhone, in particular its battery.

So, this run concludes the year 2011, and with this 7.3 kilometers, I have ran in total 422 kilometers in this year. Let's run more in the coming 2012, say 500 kilometers so that I can keep the Run Back To Beijing mission in track.

Run No. 77 Cap d'Antibes

Last Sunday was really a nice day for running. I went out at 3:18pm came back at 4:21pm. So in 1h and 4 minutes I ran 11.5 kilometers, a pace of 5.6min/kilometer.

Unfortunately I have to make all this calculation by myself because my iPhone dies too often making Nike+ GPF unusable so I decided not using it at all. Then it's time to think seriously about getting a more reliable running GPS watch.

As I'm now so familiar with the route, I reconstructed it with Google map, here it is:

Run No. 76 Cap d'Antibes

Sunday again. The Sunday's run becomes more important as the Wednesday's run is often cancelled because there is always something comes up...

Ran another time a round of the Cap, just this time, I got out a bit earlier than before so I managed to get back before the sunset. It turned out a much better plan.

Once again, my iPhone died out during the run. Although it last a bit longer than the last time, it died at 9.11 kilometer. So once again, I have to do some calculation to know my result: 12 kilometers in 1h14 minutes.

Let's see where iPhone died out:

Run No. 75 Cap d'Antibes

Today is the day of the "Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes, Nice-Cannes", which goes through Antibes, where I live.  I didn't participate, I'm not yet at that level :D

Anyway, I went out running in the afternoon when the routes are free from the event. I took the same route to the Cap d'Anitbes, made a tour and came back via Antibes center. It took me about 1 hour and 10 minutes to complete about 12 kilometers. I said "about" because my iPhone died again during the run, at about 9 kilometers so I got only partial data of this run.

Another thing to note is the temperature became quite low late afternoon, so next time, I need to wear a little more than just a shirt and a short.

Anyway, partial data is here.

Run No. 74 Cap d'Antibes

We had lot of rain last week and even flood in some places. It turned good only three days ago. So the Sunday's run can be continued finally.

I went out late afternoon when the sun was still warm. Started with a faster pace than usual just because I haven't run often recently so saved lot of energy.

However, iPhone died again right at the start. Maybe it's time to replace it with the last 4Gs ? Or wait for the 5? Anyway, I can imagine it will stop working in two years, maybe I need something more credible ? Something like a Garmin? 

So 10kilo in 60min with no record for today.

Run No. 73 Antibes - Golf Juan

30/10/2011

I have been quite busy the last two weeks, as a result, I haven't time to run :(

Now finally, I got a long weekend so I can arrange some time for a run. The weather is ideal at this moment, but I must be hurry and must take every opportunity before December when the bad time starts.

Unfortunately my iPhone get worse and worse, it cannot last for a 1h run since recently. I hope I can get a iPhone 5 by December to replace the current 3GS, otherwise, I will need a watch then. Anyway, I didn't get anything recorded for this run, but it's OK, I took my usual way to Golf Juan and back, that's about 10 kilometers and it took me in 65 minutes, so an average pace of 6'30''/kilometer.

Run No. 72 Sophia Antipolis - Antibes

Yet another come-back-home run. Today I finished my work a little bit late, and after I was prepared to run, it was already 6:40 pm, the sun was already falling at that moment. Oh, the day is getting shorter and shorter.

It soon became totally dark and I was still on my way. The cars turn on their lights, which gave me another view, a different one which gave me some strange illusion.

Here is the result (yes, finally I remembered to charge my iPhone to 100% then Nike+ worked during the run) :

Run No. 71 Sophia Antipolis - Antibes

A come-back-home-run. 7 kilometers without record, iPhone ran out of battery.

By the way, iPhone is a great product but not perfect, just as Steve Jobs himself, I don't like him very much although I think he is a great man, I'm sorry we lost him while he is only 56.

Run No. 70 Sophia Antipolis

70th Run!

Unfortunately, the Nike+ GPS failed right at the beginning so nothing was registered :(

I just did the usual round of 5 kilometers in 33 minutes.

Nothing more to say.

Run No. 69 Sophia Antipolis

I ran another 5kilo today. Before starting, I felt a bit tired actually, however, after the ran I felt much better :D

Here is the result.

Run No. 68 Sophia Antipolis

I'm running irregularly more often than usual recently. I didn't have my Sunday's run because I went out and spent most of the day in a little park with my wife and my son.

So I went to run today, at noon time. It was a little hot today actually, not sure how much it is, but I felt hot. Even a fresh shower did not cool me down completely.

Here is the result:

Run No. 67 Sophia Antipolis - Antibes

I ran back home from work today. It was cool and I felt really great. Average pace of 6min/kilo, with a knapsack of 3kilo and a road going up and down three times, it's not a so bad a record.

Run No. 66 Sophia Antipolis

Haven't run this weekend, so I selected to run today. Planned to run at noon time, but was trapped by a tricky problem in the work. Finally, I ran back home at seven o'clock.

The day is much cooler now than several weeks ago and we feel really it's autumn now.

Run No. 65 Sophia Antipolis

Didn't run last weekend, played with my new car :D

So this Wednesday's run, I had a great weather and two friends. We ran at a very relaxing pace, about 7min/kilo. Felt really great! I eat two sandwiches after, I was really hungry. 

Think I need to run more often from now to be prepared for the competition "Run for a Flower" which is in two weeks.

Run No. 64 Sophia Antipolis

Colleagues have been back from summer vacations, so today, we were three for the Wednesday's run. As they just came back so we were at a slower pace and took a short cut. So 4.5km 7min/kilo, that's just for relaxing a bit from the whole morning's hard work. :D

Run No. 63 Cap d'Antibes

It becomes cooler when September starts. The wind brings clouds back to the Mediterranean. Today, I felt quite happy to run under the clouds so no sunlight burning me. In addition, I brought a little bottle of water with me. Sum all the factors up, I ran faster today than I usually do.

Here is the result:

A Bug in Nike+ GPS 3.2

As said previously, I have to uninstall and reinstall the application in order to let it start. I did so and it starts now. What's better than before is now we have all history data synchronized from the Nike website so we don't start from zero this time.

But there is still something wired for example the pace shown in the Summary page, it's clearly incorrect : 4'08'' / Km. As shown also in the same page, I run 5.21 Km in 35 minutes.  And the data was correct in my previous screen shot, but not now:

Also the map showing the pace, it's not correctly built.

Run No. 62 Sophia-Antipolis

It has been quite busy recently, everyone comes back from vacations so we have lot of work to do. Also I'm busy with my drive license and cars and so on. So it has been two weeks since my last run.

It's already much cooler than two weeks ago, I enjoyed a lot.

Here is the result:

Oh yes, Nike+ GPS just released another update, version 3.2, with some enhancement in the functionality. However, I still got a problem that the application simply does not lance... :(
I think I have to uninstall it then re-install it.

Run No. 61 Sophia-Antipolis

This Wednesday is really quiet, I met one or two runners on my way.  There is almost nobody working during the summer vacations, so almost nobody running :D

I finished the usual trace without difficulty, alone.

Run No. 60 Sophia-Antipolis

60th Run!

Wednesday, not so hot, finished the usual circle in 34 minutes, just a normal pace. However, the Nike+ GPS stopped to register at 4.5 kilo :(

Here is the result, should be 5.4kilo as always:

Run No. 59 Cap d'Antibes

07/08/2011.

It was another hot Sunday, the sun was still very strong when I went out late afternoon. I started at a low pace and thought I will finish the Cap d'Antibes easily. However, it became very hard after 6kilo, I tried hard to continue and at 10kilo I had to stop as I felt very bad. After walking for a while, my arms and legs started to tremble, I tried to walk and after about 40 minute, I finally arrived home. I quickly drank some salty water and eat some salty cheese, bread, chocolate, whatever I could find in my refrigerator, then I started to recover little by little. After about an hour, I was finally able to take a shower that made me feel much better. :D 

I finally recovered the next morning. Important lesson, take a bottle of water, a little bit salty is better, next 10 kilo run.

Here is the result:

Run No. 58 Sophia-Antipolis

The weather is a bit strange recently, it rains more than usual. The tourists must be very sad about this. It rained quite heavily this morning, but as it lasted only for about a half hour, it does not disturbed my run. The road condition is just excellent, the only thing made the run more difficult is that it's quite humid after the rain, it seems that the sun just turned all the rain water into vapor into the air.

Here is the result:

Run No. 57 Sophia-Antipolis

This is a late post for the last Wednesday's run. 27/07/2011

It was a rainy Wednesday, it rained really heavily in the morning. I thought I wouldn't be able to run at noon. However, the rain just stopped before noon as a miracle. I won't miss the least chance so went out very quickly.

The air was very very fresh right after the rain, the road was rather clean it seemed that the soil had become so dry to absorb all the rain water, leaving only several small muddy pools for me to traverse, not a problem at all.

Here is the result:

Again, I post this run quite late, one week after the run. It's because I was quite busy last week, I remember it only before I'm going for the next run tomorrow. :D

Run No. 56 Sophia-Antipolis

Last Wednesday's run. It was the 20th July, I went running with a friend and he showed me a new route which is very cool. By 'cool' I mean not only it's totally covered by tree shadows but also, part of it is a very small trail besides a creek.

After that creek side part, we entered a big park where quite a lot of people were running as well. We made several round around the park. Finally we did a little more than 8 kilometers, longer than what I usually do on Wednesday but as we've been running really slow, it didn't make me more tired than usual.

Here is the result.

Run No. 55 Villeneuve-Loubet

It's again Sunday and I'm quite happy that it is not so hot today, ideal for running. As a result, I decided to run the Route du Board de Mer. So you see, it's a route besides the seashore, there isn't a single tree or building, running there is the last thing you want to do in sunny Mediterranean summer. But today, it's OK, it's a very cloudy day, the only small problem is the wind, it tries to stop me on my way back. Anywany, I accomplished 12 kilometers today, slowly, but accomplished. I make a u-turn at the big ad board "Beinvenu A Villeneuve-Loubet" :D  By the way, amazon sells everything, even these mousepad coasters, about Villeneuve-Loubet.

OK, Finally, here is the result:

Run No. 54 Sophia Antipolis

Wednesday's run is back! Friends are in vacations or simply not motivated to run in the hot summer :(

So I went running alone this Wednesday. I'm quite lucky because it was quite cloudy today and it even rained a little during the run, just as I wished yesterday in Google+. It seems that Google+ really rocks! :D


OK, so here is the result, quite slower than usual, maybe because I skipped the Sunday's run. I have to admit I couldn't resist going to the swimming pool instead of going to run last Sunday.

New Nike+ GPS 3.1.1

This small release is available since the 5 July.

One major change is that now we can use buttons to read or pause the workout. Also there are some bugs fixed in this release.

I tested a first workout with the new release, everything seems working great :D

Run No. 53 Golf Juan

Didn't run last Sunday, didn't run last Wednesday, I really need to run today! It happens to be quite cool today, some clouds are covering the sky, the fresh wind comes from the sea. Also I don't want to run again the Cap d'Antibes, I've been running there for so many times recently, time to change a little! :D  I selected Golf Juan this time. Because I went to my insurance company Saturday which is at Golf Juan, this recalled me my old memory about running there, very nice place to run.


Here is the result:

10kilo exact,  quiet small road, then the beach, that's why I like this route very much.

Run No. 52 Sophia-Antipolis

This Wednesday, two of my friends and me, we decided to run in the morning instead of noon because it's cooler :D We planned to start at 8am but I was a bit late so they went before me. It was a little hard at the beginning, but after that I felt really nice.

Here is the result: