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Final Major Project Bjørn Norman Jensen Southampton Solent University Tutor Run A personal journal 2013 / 2014 Susie Smith

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Design and Edited

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Typeface: Univers LT

Editorial Supervision

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Thanks to all who contributed to this project

and valuable feedback to me from my tutors,

family and friends.

Special thanks to the

BA (Hons) Graphic Design Course team:

Nick Long, Paul Shakespeare & Susie Smith

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Dysania (n.) Finding it extremely hard to get out of bed in the morning.

I’m not super obese, just a bit overweight and would like to change that.

I do like to run and be physically active but I do have a hard time keeping a routine. I keep making a lot of bad excuse for my self and feeling guilty over my behavior. With this project I wanted to start jogging, follow my progress and hopefully start feeling better about myself.

It’s a personal journal researching running and keeping track of my records. It follows every choice that I made to lift my spirit up to the point where it made an impact on my goals.

This project is a journal of my

resolution to keep on running.

How to start and be more

physically active and keeping

a routine. It’s more of self

awareness and not being a

destructive person.

I wish to be more

active

Tomorrow, I’m gonna run...(What I keep telling my self.)

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England and Wales have experienced their wettest winter since records began in 1766.

The two week droughtParts of southern England, which has been hit by severe flooding affecting homes, farmland and critical rail links, experienced 83% more rain than average, provisional figures for 1 December 2013 to 25 February 2014 show.

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February saw some heavy rain for much of the UK with south-east and central southern England receiving 133.3 mm, almost two and a half times the monthly average. South-west England and south Wales received 201 mm, double the average rainfall.

The Met Office had already confirmed the wettest winter in modern records, that go back to 1910, but the amount of heavy rain has now broken the 250-year old precipitation records for England and Wales with 435mm of rain falling, more than the previous record of 432mm in 1915.

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Here’s a shortlist of things that running has definitively solved for me over the years: relationships, pitches, stories, existential problems, petty problems, medium problems, and my tax-filing mishap of 2011.

I’ve run while worried about work. Worried about what’s happened, what’s going to happen,what I’d like to happen and whether or not I can make it happen.

It’s the surest cure for creative block I’ve ever found.The way you remember running is entirely different to what running really is. I don’t know why it works this way, but it does.

That we remember running in this bastard way is a trick of the mind. A preventative concoction. Maybe the brain doesn’t want us to swelter and gasp and have our heart thud back and forth a hundred-odd times a minute.

(Maybe we’re lazy.)

And then there’s the idea of running, which also sucks. What could take less mastery, less finesse, less grunt and masculinity?

Talentless. Charmless. Chump-ish. Vanilla.

The run is entirely between you and yourself. This, of course, is where the beauty begins.

Running makes you force the question. Without anything to distract, you stare your anxieties, conundrums and options dead in the eye.It’s confrontational.

It’s the world’s cheapest workout.

(It won’t get you laid.)

Deep in the mind’s eye, running is a sweat-stained horror. Sole pounding on pavement, force and shock zigzagging up rapidly dulling shins and knees, face turning an angry, bloated red – and all just to wobble another metre forward.

It’s the world’s cheapest therapy

It’s sweaty, it’s itchy, it’s miserable.

There’s that thing about men and sports: you do it to be demonstrably goodat something. Preferably, you need to have the chance to kick someone’s ass. It’s maybe the whole point. For that game, that race, that goal – whatever – you’re superior.Here’s crux of running: there’s no competition. There’s no payoff.

Moreover, it’s confrontational in a society that regularly leaves us too distracted to confront ourselves.

It works. I’ve always run alone.

Nobody will be impressed that you can run 20 kilometres non-stop.

Damn, son – you might say to your jog-happy kid – learn to throw a ball, kick a ball, belt a cross-court baseline winner. Running? One leg then the other?

I can’t remember a time when I haven’t finished a run and been a little clearer-minded, a little grittier ormore serene or whatever it was the situation most called for.

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The other especially good time to take a run is when you’re miserable. Yes, it’s counterintuitive.

But it’s one of life’s happy accidents, like the creation of penicillin or that time you forgot you left 50 quid in your winter jacket.

Running miserable bears a heap of resemblance to running happy. But it leans heavier on pride.In this case, the run is cathartic: the torture of the body to distract from the pain of the mind. Sometimes you’ll run away from a problem.

More often, you’ll run through it. Sometimes you mightn’t know if it’s sweat or rain or tear rolling down your face. You’ll always arrive home slightly betterand lighter.

For a few miles, you’ll breeze past foot traffic, giddily try to keep pace with cyclists, and take furious pride in each gasp of air.

First, when you’re elated.You find adrenaline and joy lengthening your gait, propelling you forward like a life-drunk locomotive. For some reason, running happy allows your body to temporarily ignore its aerobic capacity.

There are two especially good times to take a run.

For a few miles, you’re the most euphoric dickhead in the world.

Running can gift you all of these things. Probably more.

I haven’t found a better way to clear my mind, to kickstart an idea, to break through a sticking point.

”Like Nietzsche, I tend to distrust thoughts that have not come to me when in physical motion,”

Get some fresh air. And remind

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the poet Charles Tomlinson told The Paris Review. Haruki Murakami, the brilliant Japanese novelist who wrote Norwegian Wood, has also run an ultramarathon – 62 goddamn miles.

For Murakami, focus and endurance are paramount to creating anything of worth.

What he’s getting at, of course, is that, to be a better runner is to be a better thinker.

“Most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day,” he wrote. “These are practical, physical lessons.”

“Focus and endurance are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training. You’ll naturally learn both concentration and endurance when you sit down every day at your desk and train yourself to focus on one point. This is a lot like the training of muscles.”

For all the praising of the shower – and, come on, we praise the hell out of the shower – I’ve had almost every single one of my Big Ideas on a long, slow run.

He treats his running religiously.

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If you are determined, though, to invest some cash into your new pursuit – so as to guilt yourself into committing to it, because that technique has never not worked free running shoes are a worthy investment.

Unfortunately, it’s gotta be you and the asphalt.No buts. No maybes. No variation.

But if you stick it out it will, eventually, happen.

And you’ll decide that you don’t need to gohome yet.

You can’t fall into a trance if you’re fiddling with your new, overpowered in-ear headphones or jostling with your iPhone for that perfect song.

Naturally, we need to talk accessories, too.

There can’t be any.

I can’t promise that running will be any different than you remember it. It might still be aching shins and itching and prolonged, monotonous torture.

In a few weeks, or a few months, you’ll find yourself running a tree-lined street on a cold, fresh morning.

You’ll be on the home stretch. You’ll be sweat-drenched and clear-minded – perfectly at ease.

Really, it’s just like – stay with me – meditation.

You, literally, become mesmerised.

But, be still, let the water settle, and everything can be seen clearly.

Entire stories have trickled out of my mind, a gently unravelling thread of crisp, satisfying sentences.

It’s so consistently effective, it feels like cheating.There’s a trance point. When everything that was once smudged across your mind comes into sharp focus.

The key is repetition.Repeating the same action over and over – a chant, a breath, or, yes, a jog – allows the mind to relax.

And when your mind can relax, excellent things happen. Some liken it to a body of water: if you’re constantly moving around it, dirt gets kicked up and the water becomes cloudy.

It’s the same reason your mind wanders when you try to go to sleep – because it’s finally been given a chance to breathe.

Maybe you’ve been frustrated that your most brilliant ideas and crucial ephiphanies only visit before sleeping – go running, and they’ll happen on your schedule.

It’s a very real weapon.So, let’s talk practicalities.

First things first: you need gear that a) works and b) won’t get in the way. You need to zone the hell out, remember?

This means those decade-old too-small football shorts that chafe like nasty can’t be in your running wardrobe. Too distracting, too fiddly, too infuriating.

For the most part, your kit is unimportant. Comfy shorts, solid socks, a tee that breathes.

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Mid-December I bought a NikeFuel braclet. A device that tracks your life with Nikefuel, a universal way to measure movement for all kind of activities.

But Michael Kim, who specializes in designing software to influence behaviours, critiques the FuelBand as not being sustainable in the long-haul, saying,

The Nike+ FuelBand is an activity tracker worn on the wrist and is to be used with an Apple iPhone or iPad device, or computer running Windows.

As part of the Quantified Self movement, the FuelBand allows its wearers to track their physical activity, steps taken daily, and amount of energy burned.

The information from the wristband is integrated into the Nike+ online community and phone application, allowing wearers to set their own fitness goals, monitor their progression, and compare themselves to others part of the community.

Nike+ relies on the gamification of fitness activities turning all tracked movement into NikeFuel points, which can unlock achievements, can be shared with friends, or can be used to engage others in competition.

"Points and badges do not lead to behavior change."

On the other hand, a nutritionist professor at Ryerson University is quoted as saying,

“Anything that motivates exercise is a good thing, it could be really useful for people that needthe support"

and despite finding the FuelBand a useful tool for maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle, she also points out the FuelBand neglects to take into account food energy intake.

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January was miserable, dark and wet.

The most rainful winter in 200 years in

Hampshire and the surrounding area made

my New Year’s resolution to a roughstart,.

After three weeks I pushed my daily fuel goal

from 2600° to 3000° point which was 20%

above my age group to challange myself.

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January

week 1 1 437°

1 437° daily avg starting point

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February was better then last month. The

weather cleared up more.

I still had some trouble getting out of bed

and probably had a mild winter depression

But this I got my self a running partner and

did running laps a couple times a week.

By the end of this month I wanted to

challenge myself with a streak of reaching

my goals lasting for more then a week

as I went thru my stat which showed

inconsistency of my movement.

March showed a increase in my progress.

During this time I had one of the best days

and week in my stats. This all time high is

from my trip in New York where did a lot of

walking during our time there.

So the charts does lie a bit as this is not a

typical and average month.

I teamed up with several more for running

some laps during the weekend and hit my

goal for the day most the majority of the day.

This is the first month where I was above

average. And my first month where I hit the

two week streak mark.

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New York contribute for March. Teamed up

with friends to hikes and running laps in this

beautiful spring month. The season lift the

spirit and morality high for activities

daily fuel point goal. I feel more fit, and saw

the choices I done before clearly was not

right choice. But now I feel like I'am on the

right track.

This month mark the end of the project.

The stats for May is not 100% complete

due to the date of this hand of this journal.

By this point I had reached 68 streaks in a

Stats for April showed a decrees from last

month but it was the first month of full

streak. And more of an ordinary month as

with any extreme factor like the trip to

row for reaching my daily goal. By going

thru the stats their is a clear and steady

progress and with the help of my nikefuel

bracelet keep me on track to at least reach

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April May

Stats for days where I have been running.

These numbers are from iRunner, an app

that keep records of my movement during

my laps of running around the Commons.

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Old Cemetry

Burgess Rd.

Southampton Common

Resevoir

Southampton Common is a large open space to the north of the city centre of Southampton, England.It is bounded by the districts of Shirley, Bassett, Highfield and Portswood.

Southampton Common currently includes 1.32 km2 of woodland, parkland, rough grassland, ponds, wetlands, nature trails, a paddling pool, a children's play area, a model yachting pond, and a fishing lake.

This is where I do most of my activites. I like to run my laps and the nature of the area gives a various of choices to how intense it can be.

The Common is used for a wide variety of community events, and also a venue for a parkrun; a weekly 5km run on a Saturday morning starting from near the Hawthorns Centre.

The area is a bitt doggy, especially since it poorly lit when night fall. But I realy haven't feelt danger while I been there.

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Reference

text by Bjørn Norman Jensen

image & text by Bjørn Norman Jensen

watercolour footprint 1:1 by Bjørn Norman Jensen

text by Bjørn Norman Jensen text by Bjørn Norman Jensen

edited image by Bjørn Norman Jensen

text source: http://www.unbelievable-facts.

com/2012/07/10-interesting-facts-about-human.html

image traced & text by Bjørn Norman Jensen weather data source: http://www.accuweather.com/en/

gb/united-kingdom-weather

Dysania definition:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dysania

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image source: http://www.anatomyfacts.com/muscle/

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icon: by Bjørn Norman Jensen

text source: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/

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weather data source: http://www.accuweather.com/en/



image source: http://unsplash.com by Christian Hebell




text source: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/

archive/2014/early-winter-stats

image by Bjørn Norman Jensen


title quote source: http://www.pinterest.com

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pin/148829962660549138/

body text by Adam Baidawi source: http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/sport/4705/how-to-not-hate-running/?utm_

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image by Bjørn Norman Jensendata from nikefuel bracelet device. data from nikefuel bracelet device.

data from nikefuel bracelet device. data from iRunner app.

image & icon by Bjørn Norman Jensen

title quote source: http://www.pinterest.com/

pin/148829962660549138/



text source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NikeFuel image source: http://hypebeast.com/2014/4/rumor-the-

nike-fuelband-and-wearable-technology-division-of-nike-

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