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

Matalan Activewear – The Verdict

When I started running in 2012 I went out in an old t shirt, a nike crop top style sports bra I’d had for over 10 years and a pair of my husbands pyjama bottoms. Oh yes. When they were no longer cutting it (the pyjama bottoms fell down as I ran) I moved on

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Fitness & Health

The Heat is On: Hot Ginger Rub vs Deep Heat

If your muscles hurt after exercising it’s a good thing, it means you’re pushing yourself and improving. It’s called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and it seems that no one really knows why it occurs, but the theory is that unaccustomed exercise causes tiny amounts of damage to the muscles, which then repair themselves in

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Fitness & Health

Little Niggles and How to Deal With Them

I think niggle is a great word, it sounds nice, I imagine it as a small furry creature, but it’s not so nice a thing to actually deal with. When you start exercising, or up the effort or try something new, you’re likely to suffer from tons of tiny niggles. Some of them will turn

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Running

City of Norwich Half Marathon 2013

Saturday night I spent dreaming that I missed the start of the Norwich Half Marathon and had to get my friend to drive me up, an hour late, as I had to run anyway as so many people had sponsored me. Thankfully it was a dream, not a premonition, and Sunday morning saw me lined

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Running

Heading for a Half Marathon

Unusually I haven’t really mentioned the Norwich Half Marathon on here in great detail. Maybe I was hoping it would go away if I didn’t mention it, but it won’t and now it’s nearly here. I signed up for this all the way back last Christmas, but then of course I slacked off horribly all

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Fitness & Health

Fit Bag UK Giveaway

Today I am teaming up with Fit Bag UK to give you the chance to win a great fitness prize to help keep you fit indoors in the warm this winter! Fit Bag UK is a self contained home exercise kit that includes 2x 2KG Dumbbells an Ab roller, Resistance band, Resistance tube, Thigh master

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Running

Norwich Race for Life Twilight 2013

On Friday night I signed up to Run the Norwich Race for Life Twilight. I was running as part of a team called Chamber of Fishwives, with some friends of mine. One of the girls, Cyan, had lost several members of her family to cancer and was the instigator of the team, but there’s very

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Running

Marriotts Way 10k 2013

This time last year the Marriotts Way 10k was my first ever 10k race, which I was really nervous about. Fast forward a year and I’m busy being nervous about my first Half Marathon. How things change! Another thing that changed significantly this year was the weather. Last year I loved the Marriotts Way run,

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Dear Diary Roller Derby

Roller Derby Level One Sign Offs …. How Did I Do?

This Monday just gone was sign offs day again for Level 1 minimum skills with the Norfolk Brawds. You may not know this, but to play Roller Derby competitively there are minimum skills set down by the WFTDA. It’s not just a case of strapping wheels to your feet and hoping you can stay upright.

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