It was special having a houseful here to watch some history being made. We had plenty of food and I went right off the #keto wagon when we had fish and chips for dinner. It seemed appropriate.
We had a mix of #blind and sighted people all wanting to share the experience. The event was not audio described in New Zealand, which for those unaware provides additional description for blind people. This meant I had to spend time some days ahead planning how we would make the event fully #accessible. It involved some geoblocking circumvention so we could receive the BBC alternative commentary for blind people.
It is tremendous that they offered this. But having the ability to implement these workarounds in order to make an event of this magnitude accessible to everyone in our house isn’t acceptable. Measures could have been put in place to make the commentary accessible to other commonwealth countries. We often see this, where audio description resources have to be used for the same project around the world due to lack of sharing.
I’d also observe that having put the work in to get access, there wasn’t as much description as I would personally have liked. It felt like the commentator wasn’t truly aware of the needs of his audience at all times. Radio 4’s commentary was much better, but when you have a house full of blind and sighted people, that doesn’t work in an environment like a living room.
For someone trying to #run longer distances (I can do 10K in an hour but I want to run a half marathon), should I be aiming for a particular step cadence or ground contact time?
Currently #running slowly doing base runs and mixing in some sprints/threshold runs. Cadence is usually around 165-175 steps/min now.