November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 3 – Super Gem

Do you know what, I felt pretty awesome when I headed out to run to the gym today. It’s only a mile and a half, much of it down hill (apart from the last quarter mile which is up a mountain) but I tend to do it at not too fast a pace as I

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Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 2 – Never Work Out Angry

Today started Ok, I was a bit tired, but coffee dealt with that. Then lots of little things kept happening that put me in a grump, and before long everything was putting me in a grump. I had planned to work through till 5pm, then do my work out, have a bath and a nice

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Running

Music to Workout To

All the way back in 2012 I wrote about my running playlist. After much experimentation I’d put together a list of songs that worked really well for helping me keep a steady pace when running, with about the right BPM and no sudden changes in tempo, and perky enough to keep me involved. Fitness First

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Fitness & Health

Juneathon – It Starts

Well hello! I’m ummed and aahed for ages about whether to take part in Juneathon this year, and then suddenly decided right at the very last minute that I would, signed up, and here we are. It seemed like a good idea as currently I am taking part in a “Fit for Chips” challenge within

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Running

Taking on an Obstacle Course Race

Well, I promised myself this year that I would try and take on some races that were just plain fun, and last weekend I completed my first ever obstacle course at Rough Runner in Oxfordshire. I was feeling kind of nervous when I turned up in the morning, I didn’t really know what to expect,

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Fitness & Health Running

Trowse 10k 2015

Well. what a weekend filled with sporting activities I’ve had! There was no partying after Eastern Sur5al for me, because I had to get up stupidly early to get down and pick up my number for the Trowse 10k which starts at 9am. Last year I called the Trowse 10k “My Slowest Yet“, but this

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Roller Derby

Roller Derby Days: Eastern Sur5al

2015 sees my Roller Derby league, The Norfolk Brawds, celebrating their fifth birthday. I’ve been with the league for 18 months, but long before I’d even heard of Roller Derby a bunch of girls with skates were getting together in a church hall to teach themselves the basics of Roller Derby. To celebrate this milestone

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Fitness & Health

Kit Bag Essentials

Before I started Roller Derby I never had a kit bag. I had “my running kit” and some random helpful stuff I kept at home. A lot of these things are the same things I had then, but now they have been upgraded into the contents of a kit bag. None of these are sport

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 31 – VICTORY IS MINE!

It’s 10pm at night, and the reason tonights post is so late is that I had a 5 hour snowy drive to Manchester, and then dinner, and now I am finally settling down for my final installment of Janathon. Because of the long drive, and the fact that I had to be at our training

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