Fat Girl to Ironman

23 October 2021

My fastest time at Southampton parkrun since 2020

This week started with good intentions. My plan was to cycle to breakfast club with M and do some yoga every day. I did an hour of yoga and Sunday and cycled on Monday morning. On Monday lunchtime, I had a run with Kate. After that the weather was bad and M’s asthma has been playing up, so exercise went...

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11 October 2021

My parkrun A-Z: Victoria Dock parkrun

Last weekend, Stuart treated us to a trip to London. M was so excited about our minibreak as the last time that we went somewhere other than my mum’s house in Cornwall for a break was two years ago. I was excited because it was an opportunity for some parkrun tourism. I’m still trying to complete my parkrun alphabet, so...

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3 October 2021

A new cross country league race

I did my first cross country race since early 2017 today. I was pleased that I went out and did it, but the photos show just how much weight I’ve put on in the last couple of years. I’ve decided that I’m going to try to do all of the CC6 races this season. My goals I had three goals...

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2 October 2021

My first 5km buggy run in over a year

This week has been up-and-down in more ways than one. A big high was being included in a Vuelio top 10 list, my cycle commute is definitely ‘up-and-down’, work feels relentless as it’s the start of the academic year and my running still feels in decline. However, I was pleased to complete my first 5km buggy run in over a...

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25 September 2021

parkrun Tourism: Havant parkrun

My parkrun tourism continued with a trip to Havant parkrun this week. I’m working on ‘cHampshire’ – completing all of the parkruns in Hampshire. Stu and I had agreed to give fellow RD Kate a lift to Staunton Country Park. Kate is trying to do more parkrun tourism and is interested in completing her parkrun alphabet. I was slightly concerned...

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18 September 2021

parkrun Tourism: The Old Showfield parkrun

Southampton parkrun was cancelled this week (because of Race for Life), so I suggested doing some parkrun tourism to Pete. I still want to do Havant, Rushmoor and Hogmoor Inclosure, however, Pete is trying to catch up on his parkrun alphabet. He suggested The Old Showfield in Frome. I’m easily led, so I agreed to it. We also invited Kate...

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28 August 2021

My fastest parkrun this year

On Saturday, Stu and I decided to go to Heartlands parkrun again as it’s the closest parkrun to my mum’s house. We considered going to Trelissick as that’s a Cornish parkrun that Stu hasn’t done, but he’s still struggling with an ankle injury and Trelissick involves some steep inclines. M was worn out after cycling the Camel Trail, so we...

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27 August 2021

Cycling the Camel Trail

When we bought M’s bike and FollowMe tandem, we were hopeful that we would be able to go on some family bike rides (as well as cycle commuting to nursery/school). It seemed fortuitous that the person we bought the bike and tandem from had taken his children to ride the Camel Trail. Although I’d never ridden the Camel Trail before,...

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25 August 2021

Cycling the Coast to Coast Trail

Stuart and I had a child-free day this week, so we decided to go out on our cyclocross bikes and do the Coast to Coast Trail. We’ve not done this route before and hadn’t heard of it until Stu found a leaflet about it. We mostly tend to stick to road cycling. Several years ago, Stu and I did a...

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22 August 2021

M’s first parkrun at Heartlands

Five years ago, I ran my first international parkrun at Amagerfaelled in Denmark. At the time, I was 33 weeks pregnant with M. Yesterday was M’s first parkrun at Heartlands! She’s taken part in junior parkruns and has run/walked parts of the event before, but she’s never completed 5km before. I’ve run at Heartlands several times before (5 other parkruns...

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