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Subverting the quilt Log cabin collage. #batextilespractice @bradfordtextiles #collage
Many thanks to @andiwalker1965 for sharing his practice with us @bradfordtextiles this weekend. So much to think about now. #batextilespractice
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Looking forward to spending time with the work of the @the62group tomorrow as I take my turn at invigilating their exhibition at Salts Mill. #textileart #62grouptextileartists
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A planned visit to @whitechapelgallery to see the exhibition Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent was turned into a lesson from the master! @peterkennardx was there to speak with a small group of students, but he gamely took on the much larger crowd who
Spotting banners of various kinds while on holiday in Liverpool. Never not thinking about textile projects. #Fdatextilespractice @bradfordtextiles @museumofliverpool @livcathedral #protestart #banners

9 miles d&d

beanz
so Monday is long run day and today Hal said 9 miles so 9 miles was done

same route as I did on New Year's Eve - downhill, level, climbing, undulating downhill, levelish, killer hill (You'd love it Leon!)

So the numbers:

Mile AHR

Today's
Pace

NYE
Pace 		NYE
AHR
1 132 12:29 12:59 139 downhill
2 137 13:25 13:43 139 pretty level
3 139 13:41 14:03 143 rising
4 138 14:33 13:44 151 climbing
5 137 11:29 13:24 149 must have lost signal here I think!
6 137 13:29 13:31 140 coming home
7 133 13:57 13:32 139
8 139 13:52 13:54 138 this is uphill
9 136 14:56 15:02 137 killer hill warm down
9.0 136 13:33 13:48 142 2:01:56 2:03:55

so pretty pleased with this!

What does it mean for BM?
Last night I commented on Pix's blog that I was hoping to run at 13:45 or (optimistically) 13:30 pace at BM which is in 2 weeks time and flat as a pancake.

Today I ran the first 8 miles in 1:46:59 which is equivalent to 13:22 pace - including some serious gradients. So maybe I should hope for a quicker pace than I had suggested at BM.

As I was plodding round today, I did think that I might run BM to my HRM - without the bleeps of course. I tend to get into a groove of plodding, which sometimes slows down, but if my HR says I could be going quicker then I try to speed up a bit. And it is a training run for FLM anyway!

slow 4 done

getting back into the groove