Tag: Southampton parkrun

4 February 2018

The pox, parkrun, Swimathon and cancer

I had such great plans for the last couple of weeks, with intentions of getting my training for Reading Half Marathon and Swimathon back on track. Chicken pox (combined with teething, because one lot of pain isn’t enough for my tiny masochist!) decided that was not to be. Poor M has been off nursery for over a week and she...

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13 November 2017

I managed a sprint tri in the space of a week

I really thought that I was going to get back into a routine of work, training and blogging with M starting nursery… but three weeks in and her attendance is 25% 🙁 The poor thing has picked up every illness going and shared it with the household, so I’ve not had a lot of free time. If I’m going to...

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29 October 2017

Illness stops play

My plan for last weekend was to go swimming on Sunday, but M was unwell. Consequently, we cancelled that plan and went for a long walk instead. M was ill all week and I also had a cold, which changed my plans. I cycled to work on Monday and Thursday, which was good, but I didn’t manage to fit in...

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21 October 2017

First run after returning to work

It’s hard to believe that my maternity leave is over and that I’m back at work. I’m now working a compressed week (8-6pm, Monday-Thursday). This means that I’ll still have some free time during daylight hours when I’ll be able to cycle/run. I’m also intending to make use of my lunch breaks to do some training. Especially as my colleague,...

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17 October 2017

Back to Southampton parkrun

It was lovely to be back at Southampton parkrun this weekend, although there just wasn’t enough time to catch up with all of my running friends. Trevor and Alison were doing their 200th parkruns, which is a great milestone to reach. I met up with Rachel, a friend from Buggy Mums. It was lovely to see her little boy and...

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27 August 2017

Back to being ‘Productive’

My Garmin has been making me feel guilty recently by telling me that I’ve been unproductive or detraining. I wanted to be back to being productive. Veri Ivanova After a rare night out on Friday, I really didn’t want to get up on Saturday morning. (By rare, I mean the first time that Stuart and I have gone out since I...

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15 July 2017

Pacing at parkrun

.A few weeks ago, one of my friends commented on Facebook that her 8-year-old son was speeding up. She felt she was holding him back at parkrun. At the time, he was running at around 27 minutes. I felt that pacing at parkrun shouldn’t be too much of a challenge. A date was set. Then the young lad blew everyone...

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16 June 2017

Back on it – a weekly round-up

Hello again! I feel like I’m finally getting back on top of things, so here’s a round-up of my week that included parkrun, swimming, Buggy Mums and Mile of Miles. Saturday – Volunteering at parkrun For the second week in a row, I was a volunteer at parkrun – this time as a Run Director. Because of building works, we’re...

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23 April 2017

The big round up

It feels like I’m posting less and less frequently, which is making me feel so sad. I’m still able to exercise, but I have so little time to myself that I’m finding it really hard to blog. This makes me really sad as I love having the time to reflect on what I’ve been doing and I feel like I...

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28 February 2017

PBPB – getting back on form

Well, I’m fully into the swing of marathon training now. I’m really enjoying it and have even achieved a PBPB! On 16th, my buddy Pete managed to get me around 17.5 miles, which is the longest run I’ve done for a very long time. I had been nervous about doing the run after doing Buggy Mums, but that class was...

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