by Julie

And so it begins

Two runs to report today. Yesterday my marathon training proper started. I attended a workshop given by my running coach Mary Jennings on Thursday evening. Improvers marathon. So I’m officially an improver. Too right. The running plan is along the lines of last year. What I have to improve is myself. My two main objectives this year are to (i) improve my core strength, and (ii) not put on weight. The running will be fine; I would like to improve my time and the way to do it is to improve my core strength because…
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by Julie

Stressed out

A quick two miles yesterday evening. I was away last week and did a lot of walking so my body is a bit stiff and sore but I ran around the block. I am feeling a bit stressed about an exam I have next month, that I need to study for, but it’s hard to study and run on the same evening. Plus marathon training starts this weekend! So I don’t know if I’m coming or going, between one thing and another. 
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by Julie

The Castleknock 5k

I am at home today as we are off for a week. Going to Helsinki later in the week so might share a few photos from there. Today I should be studying, but as usual there is always something more interesting to do. Therefore I will write a quick report on my run yesterday, which turned out to be a PB for me. The Castleknock 5k is a charity run set up in memory of a local man who died suddenly a few years ago. His family established the event to raise money for local…
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by Julie

Not enough

No running at all last week, mainly due to work. It was our quarterly reporting time and it’s always busy. I had to work on Saturday and had great intentions of going out on Sunday morning but wine and study commitments intervened. I left work an hour early this evening, taking back some of the time I worked last week, and went out into lovely weather. I found it quite tough to be honest; I was running in direct sunlight for the first mile and that’s never a good idea for me. I found some…
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