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Monthly Archives: October 2018
100 miles in October
Clearly I couldn’t resist rounding it up to 100 miles for October. 😳😂 I was planning on doing a Strength session today and a run tomorrow, so the simple thing to do was to swap them around. I had aimed … Continue reading
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BMI & Obesity – where are you on the UK fat scale?
I came across this article the other day on the BBC News website – you plug in your details and you see what your BMI & health risks are and you can compare yourself to others in your country – … Continue reading
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Moira’s 5k 2018
This morning I enjoyed the extra hour in bed, before getting up to run to Queens Park to do Moira’s 5k Run there. I did it last year and enjoyed it, so entered again this year. This year we started … Continue reading
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Wk43 into Wk44 & October Results
Last week I got loads of running done – up to Friday I’d run 26.2 miles in a week, and had already run four times (five including the Sunday before). I’ll have run about 85 miles for the month by … Continue reading
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New Mizuno Sonics
I usually run in a supportive shoe – my usual runners are Mizuno Wave Inspires, structured and supportive running trainers for long distance running. I really like my purple ones, but I’ve had red ones and pink ones, black ones … Continue reading
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Garmin Training Status
This week I got my first update on my ‘Training Status’ from my Garmin 645 Music. Garmin Training Status shows how your training affects fitness and performance and it should be a good measure to keep an eye on. After … Continue reading
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85 mile target for October
After last year’s monthly target of 100 miles a month, I realised that I found a lot of motivation in aiming for an achievable and rounded monthly mileage goal. 100 miles was ok when I was training for marathons, but … Continue reading
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Book club – A Great Day at the Office
Here’s an idea… I’ll share the book I’m reading on here, and if you fancy it, you could buy it, and read it too. Fancy it? I bought this book a couple of years ago and got some good insight … Continue reading
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Wk42 into Wk43
Last week I did three strength sessions and two runs. I’m still hopefully going to get my third run in over this weekend, but we’ll see. I listened to my body on Thursday and instead of an early run, I … Continue reading
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Foxy’s Garagym 🦊
Since I set up my gym in our garage… I’ve been slowly adding to it with bits and pieces to make it what I want. I started doing it up in April 2017 and it was ready for use in … Continue reading
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