{"id":9454,"date":"2012-01-04T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T20:01:07","slug":"a-meteoric-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/a-meteoric-run\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meteoric Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice run with the Tri Club last night. The run itself was\u00a0fairly\u00a0uneventful, just an\u00a0undulating\u00a010km run with Pete, Graham and Karen. It \u00a0was a cool, clear night with plenty of light from the Moon and good views of Jupiter not far from the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back we took a bit of a detour along the back roads of Talybont and as we were running North were treated to an amazing view of a meteorite. It flew over head in line with us and was visible for a quite a while. 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