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- 3.2km swim from Balmaha
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- Road trip – 18 Dec 2021
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- Lovely book – Captain Tom’s Life Lessons
- My winter training plans 2021
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- September – Holidays, fun, training and plans
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- Officially a ‘bot’ for life
- Loch Morlich 3,000m Swim Event
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- Ready for the Brighton 10k!
- Time for another wee adventure
- My 2021 Annual Training
- Knockburn Watersports Loch swimming
- Loch Lomond Go Swim 3,000m event
- Pinkston Swimming & my Training plans
- Replica necklace continuing the journey
- 2,550m swim in Loch Lomond
- Too many watches?
- Downward weight trend – in 3 weeks plus
- Swim in Loch Venachar (c2,300m)
- Training Plan for August
- I’m excited to look forward, not back
- Wk30 into Wk31
- My training in July and going forward
- Swimming instead of running!
- Dressed like an Apple Fitness icon
- Dumbrock Loch swimming
- Taking a different path
- Transferred to the Brighton 10k
- How to plan your activity and get fit and healthy
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- Wk26 into Wk27
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- Physio 3 – to get back running
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- Wk21 into Wk22 & last day
- Great news from me – I have a new job!
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- Wk18 into May & June
- My last day at the BBC!
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- Vaccine and wk18 into wk19
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- Walking the West Highland Way: Tue 3rd April!
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- Strength & Barrathon Half Marathon Training
- Why worry?
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- Building back into it Winter 2014
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Tag Archives: rain
Wk41 – 6.5M Nithsdale
Quote of the day: “The best part of a run? The birds chirping, the awesome air, and the fact that a lot of people are still sleeping. The worst? The first couple of steps. Just getting the creaks out.” Summer … Continue reading
Wk29 – 11.7M Half Marathon training
Thursday night my new long run night and it went really well for me: another good practice at running (11.7 miles of) the Great Scottish Run half marathon route. The weather forecast in the morning was for rain overnight between … Continue reading
Posted in Run
Tagged drizzle, eglington, gorbals, great scottish run, GSR, half marathon, rain, run, training
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Running in the rain anyone?
With Autumn just around the corner… well not really… but it seems to have been a bit of a wet Summer (and I got drenched last night on a run), I wanted to get some thoughts together on running in the … Continue reading
Wk28 – 9.5M Half Marathon training then Basketball
Thursday night and I went home for Chicken Katsu… a lovely home made dish of breaded chicken with rice and chinese curry sauce on top. Yummy! I made sure I visited the loo, before going out for my run at … Continue reading
Posted in Basketball, Routes, Run
Tagged basketball, great scottish run, half, marathon, rain, run, training
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Wk27 – 45 mins Bike Cruise Intervals
Monday morning… my second Monday morning in the gym on the bike. Bike: 45 minutes, Level 10, Cruise Intervals 5 minute warm up (+80rpm) 7 x 4 mins (+90rpm) with 1 min rest (80rpm) 5 minute cool down I listened … Continue reading
Wk26 – 11.8M Spin Step Ups
This morning I managed to get to the gym just after 630am for a bike workout. It was pouring outside… proper Glasgow rain which has been promised to us for a while now… big low pressure will be hanging about … Continue reading
Posted in Bike, Bike Workout
Tagged bellahouston, bike, gym, rain, spin, step ups, sweat, workout
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Wk22 – 7.1M West End
Wednesday night after work and I’d plan to run straight from work for maybe an hour or so. The waether had been heavy rain showers on and off all day, so I was hoping I would avoid any imminent shower. … Continue reading
Wk20 – 9.1M Pollock Park wi Gill
On Wednesday of this week I was meant to do an 8 mile speed workout: 1 mile steady, 1 mile fast, but the 2500m swim on Tuesday night wiped me out. The whole of Wednesday I was knackered and the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Run
Tagged 5, 9, bellahouston, bob, chat, gill, glasgow, improvement, lucy, miles, paisley road west, park, pollock park, progress, rain, run, squirrel, stanley, training, ultramarathon
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Wk20 – 4.3M Maxwell Park run in the rain
Back to a rainy Monday morning this week. Watching the weather last night and it was just a torrent of water right across the West coast of Scotland. I am back from my sunny holidays with a bump! I actually … Continue reading
M74 run along the new motorway
It was wet and rainy when we got up today – the day of the run along the M74. A day before I’d been lying by the pool in 25’C heat relaxing in Portugal. We got in late and didn’t … Continue reading
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