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

Dear Diary: May and #Juneathon

Start Weight: 11st 4.5 lb Weight Now: 11 st 6lb Monthly Gain: 1.5lb Total loss: 12lb Waist: 29.5″ Miles Run: 21.4 Average Distance per run: 3.5 miles Despite those stats I’m not actually chalking May up as a total disaster. It was my birthday in May, and I may have pigged out a little (a lot) and

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Dear Diary

Deary Diary: April

April Stats… Start Weight: 11st 3.8 lb Weight Now: 11 st 4.5lb Monthly Gain: .7lb Total loss: 13.5lb Waist: 30.5″ Miles Run: 18.82 Average Distance per run: 3.1 miles Like I said in my only other post this month, April has been a real struggle. Whilst I’ve always travelled around a lot, this month has seen a sudden

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Running

Trowse 10k 2013

Well, I made it back alive. I’ll be honest, it felt like touch and go at times! When I signed up for the Trowse 10k I had visions of a beautiful spring morning countryside jaunt. In reality of course it’s bitterly cold, in fact there were snow flurries part way round, and the clocks went

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

The Need for Speed

When I started running I started buying running magazines. They frequently contained sentences along the lines of “running at a fairly easy 9 minute mile pace” which made me snort, and then feel like a failure as I looked at my Nike+ stats average of 10’40” a mile. Quotes from an assortment of blogs. I’ve

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Fitness & Health

#janathon Day Thirty One – THE END!

Well, that’s it guys, it’s all over! Thanks for your support and for a months worth of blogs, but now I have to remember how to do something other than think about running a mile a day in wind, ice, rain, snow, sleet, sun and my pyjamas. I set out to do 1.5 miles this

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Fitness & Health

#janathon Day Thirty – The Sneaky Run

Sneaky run in daylight during the afternoon when I should be working? Oh ok then, I AM self employed. I guess my boss isn’t always so bad after all. My regular running partner, otherwise known as my husband, isn’t expecting to finish work till 7pm, so I thought I’d sneak out in daylight and make

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Fitness & Health

#janathon Day Twenty Nine

So close! Today was another fairly cursory run. It’s incredibly windy out, which is kind of fun when it’s behind you, not so much coming back in the other direction. It’s also that sort of rainy where it’s not quite rain, the air is just full of water. This rapidly turning into a daily weather

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Fitness & Health

#janathon Day Twenty Eight

I felt tiiiired today. One of those days where you feel like even dragging yourself up the stairs is a feat of pure endurance. It was also windy and rainy, but I snatched a moment in between rain showers to head out around my favourite Janathon 1.4 ish mile route. I vowed to take it

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Fitness & Health

#janathon Day Twenty Six – The Run of Terror

“Oh”, I thought. “The Sun is shining, that must have put paid to some of that ice” Wrong. I was quite hungover today. Note last nights 2am blog post. It was the sort of hangover where unless there’s something really urgent to be done you’re still in bed at lunch time. I was still in

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