Monday, January 23, 2006
w/end
:: Saturday morning ::
Ran a 15Km race in and around Constantia.
A really beautiful course with a good mix of hills and fast downhills.
At the finish I heard someone comment that he considered the course a downhill run even though the start and finish were in the same spot. I kind of agree.
I was also really pleased with my time 1:09:38 (which comes to about 4:40 per Km) as I was expecting to do more of a 1:20 or thereabouts.
This does not nearly equate to a silver half marathon just yet (which requires around 4:20 a Km for 21.1Km) but it does mean that the foundation of a fast long run is in place.
I intend running my first 21.1 on the 19th of February(apparently a very flat course) with another in March and then the Two Oceans Half in April.
:: Saturday nite ::
Went to an outdoor Drum 'n Bass thing at Oude Molen village at The Mad House (literally an old asylum).
The building is a double storey in a U shape with the dancefloor in the U.
In short it was fckn rad!
The weather has been absolutely amazing the last few days(no wind at night!) and on Saturday nite a thick bank of cloud rolled in from the bay which gave the sky a mystical (excuse the pun) orange glow.
But the main kick must be the music. I am never dissapointed by DJ-quality DnB. It is ultra fast, ultra hard and always always feels totally modern/futurist.
Some of the tunes were absolute explosions; no melody, not even any discernable bassline, just this ultra-clean, balanced stack of percussion progressions - rolling, skittering beats, super-dense high speed kick drums - relentless.
DnB is the one form of music where I feel like the kids are continuously finding ways of making a noise that the previous generation finds totally alien.
rock on!
Ran a 15Km race in and around Constantia.
A really beautiful course with a good mix of hills and fast downhills.
At the finish I heard someone comment that he considered the course a downhill run even though the start and finish were in the same spot. I kind of agree.
I was also really pleased with my time 1:09:38 (which comes to about 4:40 per Km) as I was expecting to do more of a 1:20 or thereabouts.
This does not nearly equate to a silver half marathon just yet (which requires around 4:20 a Km for 21.1Km) but it does mean that the foundation of a fast long run is in place.
I intend running my first 21.1 on the 19th of February(apparently a very flat course) with another in March and then the Two Oceans Half in April.
:: Saturday nite ::
Went to an outdoor Drum 'n Bass thing at Oude Molen village at The Mad House (literally an old asylum).
The building is a double storey in a U shape with the dancefloor in the U.
In short it was fckn rad!
The weather has been absolutely amazing the last few days(no wind at night!) and on Saturday nite a thick bank of cloud rolled in from the bay which gave the sky a mystical (excuse the pun) orange glow.
But the main kick must be the music. I am never dissapointed by DJ-quality DnB. It is ultra fast, ultra hard and always always feels totally modern/futurist.
Some of the tunes were absolute explosions; no melody, not even any discernable bassline, just this ultra-clean, balanced stack of percussion progressions - rolling, skittering beats, super-dense high speed kick drums - relentless.
DnB is the one form of music where I feel like the kids are continuously finding ways of making a noise that the previous generation finds totally alien.
rock on!
// posted by werner @ 9:39:00 am 
