December 25, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fitness & Health

#Juneathon Day 14 – Yawn

Yeah, yeah. I imagine you all waiting around with baited breath to hear how long a plank I did today and how much I smell of deep heat. The answers. 80 seconds and a lot. I can walk without limping today, which is progress, but can’t bend my leg backwards, like you would for a

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#Juneathon Day 12 – Another Day of Lounging Around

Leg still hurts. I still smell of Deep Heat. Today I did another cheats exercise of a minutes plank, a handful of press ups, and the increased effort it takes me to drag myself across the room with a leg that doesn’t bend. I have been resting and elevating like a good girl. The leg

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#juneathon Day 12 – Piranhas in the Pool

So, my leg is still very sore. I am Limpy Von Limperson, Sheriff of Limpytown. I decided to give swimming a go at the hotel tonight anyway as I really could do with some exercise, especially as I am now doing my usual sulky eating thing that I do when I’m, er, a bit sulky.

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#Juneathon Day 11 – This Is Cheating

I did a plank for a minute and a handful of press ups. So that’s *some* exercise and technically within the Juneathon rules, but it’s cheating really. And even that made my leg hurt. I didn’t get sweaty, I didn’t burn any calories and I didn’t really challenge myself. My feet look like this as

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#juneathon day 10 – The End?

I’m writing this one from my phone, so excuse the lack of beautiful formatting. I pretty much feel like an idiot right now. The stabbing pain that started on Saturday and got worse on Sunday had eased a little, though I could still feel it, so I decided to risk Roller Derby practice. I was

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#juneathon Day 9 – Er, Ouch.

Oh dear. I am hurt. Todays intention had initially been to head out for a 10k. But the ache that started as that stabbing pain in my thigh on Friday night was still there so I downgraded my intentions to 4 and a bit miles. We drove out to the lake we used to run

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#Juneathon Day 8. The Day a Fly Flew Up My Nose.

So today I had to have my run done before I leave the house at 12:30 as I won’t be coming back till tonight. So I sat in bed and procrastinated until 10:30 and then got up to run round the block in a panic. My legs feel quite heavy and tired today, maybe because

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#juneathon Day Seven – Week One. Done.

Having just sat in a car for 6 hours the first thing I normally think when I get to my house isn’t normally “lets go for a run”, it’s normally “where’s the beer?” But today I came straight in, dumped my bags and went for a run round the block. It was actually a perfect

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#juneathon – Day 6 – The Day I Failed

Yep, that’s right. Failed. Totally and utterly. It’s a boring story, but that’s never stopped me before. I’m in hotels this week. I started this morning in Walsall and would end it in Preston. I was just going to do the mile minimum run today when I reached Preston about 6pm. When I arrived at

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