November 24, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
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#Janathon Day 19 – The Frosty Run

Basically I spent a lot of this morning whinging about Janathon. I changed into my running kit to take the Pugs to the park with the plan of doing my normal routine of getting back from our walk and immediately going back out for a run. I complained a lot about my poor achy legs

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#Janathon Day 18 – The Day Something Went Ping

As of today, there are only 2 weeks left of Janathon so that’s great for you guys, just 2 more weeks until you can stop hearing about how I went out for a really boring 10-minute run or learned how to use a cross trainer. So, today was a “Let’s go to the gym and

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#Janathon Day 17 – The One I’m writing in the Car

I have to say I’m terribly proud of myself today. I’d had a lovey spa afternoon yesterday, followed by some wine and lovely dinner at the Malvern Spa and I woke up all snuggly buggly in a big comfy bed with a view over the Malvern Hills. I COULD have very easily stayed there all

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#Janathon Day 16 – The Spa Quickie

Hey there! Just popping in quickly, because I have a massage booked in 20 minutes as I am currently the guest of the lovely people at Malvern Spa. A 4 hour drive and a large afternoon tea doesn’t deter me from the task of Janathon though, oh no.   I changed into my gym kit

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#Janathon Day 15 – What the Hell is a Cross Trainer Anyway

There’s something quite depressing about going to the Gym during Janathon. Heavy weights and the fitness points on my TomTom watch do not seem to be good friends, and an hour spent on deadlifts, split squats, leg curls, bench press and tricep dips basically earned me about the same points as a gentle stroll round

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#Janathon Day 14 – Dances with Pugs

Todays Janathon was a struggle not just because I may possibly have consumed 1 too many glasses of wine last night, but also because I had to have one of those days where I just squeeeeeezed exercise into my day. Our plans involved taking the Pugs for a nice long walk to the park, stopping

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This Week I…….

Afternoon folks! I hope you are all having a very happy Sunday. So far mine has involved dog walking and Avocado on toast (which I can’t quite bring myself to call “smashed avo”, sorry, I’m not that cool, obvs.) so as Sundays go it’s been pretty lovely. This afternoon it will involve Dungeons & Dragons

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#Janathon Day 13 – The Day I Got Way More than 500 Points

Last weeks Roller Derby practice might have taken me nearly 2 hours to earn 500 points because it was footwork and low impact stuff. But this week was obviously much harder because I’d earned 500 points while we were barely out of the warm-up. I actually got my phone out to take a photo of

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#Janathon Day 12- The Grumpy Run

Ah yes, I remember now. Janathon starts so optimistically. YAY, I’M RUNNING EVERY DAY! Then as we start to head to about halfway through it gets SO HARD. SO HARD. Not the actual run, but the fitting it in every day, and the actually getting yourself out of the door bit. The day after scrim

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