by Julie

Ready for it

As I woke on Saturday morning I could hear wind howling around the house and rain beating against the window. Not again, I thought. Perfect morning for a run! my boyfriend said. All sorts of excuses ran through my head but I knew I would just go and do it. 6 miles was on the agenda, last long run of the plan. I wasn’t sorry about the distance. Despite the rain and wind, it was actually quite warm at the start and I was in short sleeves and sunglasses before long. I managed to avoid…
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by Julie

Brexit means?

I hardly know what to say after watching the news from Parliament - Brexit is a total mess. Once it doesn’t interfere with my half-marathon next week I don’t care for now. My biggest concern about the whole thing was my race number getting lost in the post but the Brits organised that part ok and my number came yesterday so I am definitely going now! The only good thing about working weekends is the time in lieu earned, so I took two of them yesterday and today. I actually feel really tired after everything…
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by Julie

A tough run

Yesterday was a tough run for a few reasons. Firstly it came after 12 days of work in a row with late nights pretty much every night. So that meant no mid-week running, and no running for a week. I also did not realise I was going to be running in a gale. I missed my 11 miles last Saturday so I said I would try and do 12 yesterday just to make sure I was ok with the distance before my half-marathon in 2 weeks. I was in bed early on Friday night and…
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by Julie

The remains of the day

Today was a recovery from work run. I work in an office so it’s not as if I was doing manual labour, but quarter-end is always busy so it’s been a straight week of work and have to go back and do it tomorrow again. So I finished around 5 and was home before 6 so I said I would go while the going was good. It was dry, still bright with a lovely sky. I wanted to try and run towards the west, to catch as much light as possible. It was really windy…
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