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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Food prep & Social Sunday
What with working away and being away a few weekends in a row… I haven’t done food prep Sunday for a while, but I’m back on it. Easy peasy, half an hour spent tonight prepping some of my food for … Continue reading
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New game…
I’ve got a new game I’m playing… It’s called ‘Spot the Commonwealth Games Volunteer’. 😉 Living in Glasgow, I might see quite a few. It’s over a week to the games and today I’ve seen SIX! 🙂 How many have … Continue reading
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25 days in…
In the last month or so, inspired by Gordon at Kaizen Active, I decided I’d try to focus on eating healthy and exercising, whilst tracking my weight and body fat (perhaps a little more frequently than I’d like to – … Continue reading
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Banana berry breakfast
A variation on my usual berry breakfast, this time it’s got a frozen banana mixed with full fat Greek yoghurt as a topping: Put the following in a bowl: – 80g strawberries – 60g raspberries – 40g blueberries Whizz the … Continue reading
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Wk27 – 14M incl my first Parkrun!
I woke up at about 7am this morning. My legs a little stuff from strength training yesterday, I was tired and trying to come up with excuses not to do my planned 13.1 miles. I had a route planned out, … Continue reading
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First time for everything
Tonight I had a thing happen to me for the first time. In over 6 years of running, I’ve never lost a toe nail (don’t worry, there won’t be any horrible pictures of it) – and tonight I did! Almost … Continue reading
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Pomodoros and a cool time management app
Do you often get distracted at work? Millions of things to do, loads of emails and not sure where to start. You try to do too much at once and then more emails, messages and phone calls distract you. Before … Continue reading
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77 good habits to live by
I was listening to my audiobook again today… 23 anti procrastination habits by S J Scott from developgoodhabits.com… and he mentioned a free e book he developed – 77 good habits to live your life by, the link to it is … Continue reading
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Tasty Protein Peanut Butter Bites
Here’s a recipe for some tasty protein peanut butter bites I came across: 1 banana 40g peanut butter 60g oats 30g raisins 60g choc smooth protein powder 1. Mash up the banana and add the peanut butter to it. 2. … Continue reading
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Wk26 into Wk27
The end of a long week today, most of it spent away from home and I’m tired and in need of a good sleep. Here’s the exercise I did this week: Mon AM: 5M run PM: 5k time trial coaching … Continue reading
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