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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by Julie

A different way

It’s a long weekend here and I have to work tomorrow so a run was scheduled for today. I decided to go a different direction than I normally do, as I am rather sick of my usual routes. Will have to get over that though. It makes sense to run around the neighbourhood and not to waste time driving places for short runs. So I went a different direction and had a lovely morning of nosing about some houses and estates that I never really looked at before. It’s amazing how we can run past…
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by Julie

A fine evening

It was a lovely evening in Dublin and I was determined to go out, so I didn’t dilly-dally like I normally do when I got home: was out the door within 15 minutes of getting in after work. A record! I did 3 miles and was home again for the 8 o’clock news on the radio. I even got down on the floor and did some proper hamstring and piriformis stretches. And a side plank. Am on fire! I really should have done more exercises but didn’t have time. All in all feeling good and…
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by Julie

On the road again

For numerous reasons (work, assignments, family events and illness) I haven’t run in over two weeks. Today was the first day things felt normal so I wanted to go and check that everything still worked. It was tea-time before I got out and about 17 degrees and sunny, but with a cool breeze that made it very pleasant. I took it very easy and just did two miles around the block. Marathon training proper is going to start in a month so I have a lot of work to do. But I am in a…
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