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27 January 2023

My longest run in nearly 5 years!

I’ve been really busy at work in the last couple of weeks delivering a webinar and a face-to-face class, alongside all of my usual activities. However, despite this, I managed to complete my longest run in nearly 5 years. I’m also persevering with the rest of my training. Monday night run with LRR Monday night was an interval session on...

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14 December 2022

Christmas gift idea: 50 women in sport

At this time of year, it can be hard to motivate yourself. I don’t want to tie my laces and leave the house for a run. I love reading motivational books to encourage me to keep going. One book which I’ve read recently that I would recommend adding to your Christmas wish list is 50 Women in Sport by Jean...

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8 February 2020

Avenue of Pain and a long run

I’ve had a busy week of running this week. The highlights were the Avenue of Pain, lunchtime runs, a long run and a parkrun. On Monday, I made it out to another training session with Lordshill. We did the ‘Avenue of Pain’, a training session that Stu wrote back when we were coaching. It involves running up and down a...

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2 February 2020

If we were having coffee…

If we were having coffee, I’d ask for a large hot chocolate as I don’t like coffee. Also, I object to paying obscene amounts of money for a cup of tea. I’d ask how 2020 was going for you so far. Then, because I’m a talker, I’d fill the next hour with conversation. …I’d talk to you about parkrun volunteering...

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14 December 2019

parkrun Tourism: Blandford parkrun

We had an opportunity for some parkrun tourism (minus M) on 14th December. We had a trip to see Santa planned with Stuart’s parents, so we agreed to drop M off at their house in Ferndown before driving further to Blandford parkrun. That way, M got to spend some time with her grandparents, aunty and cousins and we got to...

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8 December 2019

Aiming for a season’s best

I’ll be honest this year running has been really hard. I’ve struggled with illness, weight gain, tiredness, stress and motivation issues. All of this meant that my ‘season’s best time’ for 5km was in a pretty poor state. In late summer, I decided to try and get back on top of things by returning to Lordshill Road Runners. It was...

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28 August 2019

St Ives Bay 10k and the Dune of Doom

I’ve wanted to do the St Ives Bay 10k for a long time. It takes place pretty much on my mum’s doorstep, with the start being on the beach. I knew I would be in Cornwall when it’s on this year, so I entered. The race is organised by Hayle Runners, so I was also happy to be supporting a...

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8 July 2019

Kingsbury Water parkrun

This year as part of the parkrun Conference, delegates were driven to Kingsbury Water parkrun. I was really excited to see what it would be like as it’s not an event that I’ve tried before. Trail-testing CONTRA When we arrived at Kingsbury Water, there was a stand with CONTRA clothing set up. We were told that it wasn’t for sale,...

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7 June 2019

Feeling positive about my training

I’m feeling positive and inspired now that I’ve entered Castle to Coast. My Strava stats for May show that I’m really getting back on track. This was really helped by taking part in RunFestRun. RunFestRun I’ve written a whole post about RunFestRun, but the summary is this: 2x5km with M in her buggy 1x5km 10km 25km is significantly more than...

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3 June 2019

Run Fest Run – a new UK running festival

I read about RunFestRun, a new UK running festival a while ago and thought it sounded great, but the cost of tickets and my lack of running fitness meant that I didn’t expect to take part. However, just over a week ago, someone shared a discount code with me that reduced the cost of a family ticket from £350 to...

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