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Interval Training With J The Machine

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Picture yourself driving down the motorway, you pass a pretty distinctive vehicle which is doing 10-20mph below the speed limit and just steadily pootling along. If you’re J, it might be a VW camper with the registration ‘Dipsy’, in whatever colour you like. You don’t think anything of it and continue on your merry way until you get to a services, you get out for a leg stretch and a drink, get back in the car and continue along down the road. A few miles further down, you once again pass a VW camper…the same one, except you really didn’t stop for longer than a few minutes right?! How has it got so far ahead of you in that time? If you prefer a more classical approach – read The Hare & The Tortoise, from Aesop’s Fables. Today, I was the hare and J was the steady-pacing tortoise!

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