November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Running

Braydeston 5k 2013

And here we are again. The first race I wrote about last year, the one I signed up for when I first started running, the Braydeston 5k was back again yesterday. Once again, the weather was annoyingly beautiful. Not quite as baking as last year, but I’ll be honest, I might have preferred a little

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Roller Derby

Aches, Pains and Wheels

It’s been a while I know, but I’ve been busy, busy and this blog was always the one that would suffer as I write it just for fun really! Today though, I am back, and I am achey. During Juneathon I started going to Roller Derby Fresh Meat nights on Monday nights, and since then

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Fitness & Health

#juneathon day 29 and 30 -The End…

Well, Juneathon is over and I can’t say I feel like I really gave it my all. While Janathon took place in a month that was hard in many ways, it was at least a month where we were slowly returning to work. In Juneathon my year was in full swing, injury, long working hours

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Fitness & Health

#juneathon Day 28 – a Quickie in the Rain

A quickie from my phone. We travelled home yesterday, about a 4 hour drive, and it was raining and miserable, I really just wanted to sit and watch tennis, but instead I went for a quick run round the block in the rain. The weather was pants for running. Humid AND raining, but I did

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Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 27 – Thwarted

Seriously, there’s been no snow or anything but Juneathon has been a right faff of compromises, injuries and half assed efforts. Today I planned to go for a run, at least a proper 5k run. I was planning to go with Mr Chick when he got back from work, and then at6pm he had just

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Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 25 & 26 – Feeling the Fear

Normally a member of the “ignore it and it’ll go away” school of injury management, it’s amazing how scared properly hurting my leg has made me. Yesterday my legs were very stiff following Roller Derby, I got all dressed to go for a run yesterday evening (less than 24 hours ago, so ner), and then

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Fitness & Health

#juneathon Day 24 – Rolling Rolling Rolling

Well, I risked a return to Roller Derby last night, even though my leg is still a little stiff. My leg ached slightly after a couple of falls, so I stopped falling on the leg, so right knee falls were the order of the day! Last night we covered some jumps and stepping drills, cross

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Fitness & Health

#juneathon day 22 and 23 – just a quickie!

Yesterday I was at Wyndstock, which isn’t a festival, oh no, it’s a midsummer ball, but it feels a bit like a festival. There is no 3G in the wilds of Norfolk so I couldn’t blog yesterday, but within 24 hour counts, so I’m not sure if I made it or not as I wasn’t

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Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 21 – The Bad Pants

Today I am in such a rush to get stuff done as I am going away for the weekend camping. At 2pm I thought I better go out quick. So off I went.   Turns out that even if you’re only running a mile you should still put your proper running pants on and not

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