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

#Juneathon Day 6 – The Curse of Juneathon

Sooo, Juneathon is obviously cursed. In 2013 I made it 10 days in before I hurt myself, this year I have managed 5. Still, despite the fact I need help getting from a lying down to standing position I persevered with some yoga in the hope it would loosen up my lower back. It didn’t.

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#Juneathon Day 5 – The Day I Got Stuck on the Floor in Boots

Last night at practice our A Team were practicing for their first British Championships game of the season (which is tomorrow, come along!) so they needed a “team” to play against in training, which was made up of unrostered A team skaters, those of us on the training squad and some boys from our brother

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#Juneathon Day 4 – Zen Derby

I am so calm and relaxed as I write, after 20 minutes of Yoga containing lots of hip openers and back stretches. For me, this is how I prepare for Roller Derby, as I have 3 hours of scrim tonight. While everyone else is necking caffeine and listening to music to get them hyped, I

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#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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#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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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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#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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#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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