by Julie

The night before

I’m off to London in the morning for a half marathon on Sunday. It’s my first flight in years, post Covid, post everything that’s happened. So I think I have everything I need: just need to get through the horrendous queue for security in Dublin airport. I will relax after that, I hope. Wish me luck and get ready for some London-themed content!
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by Julie

Hello, it’s me

Seems it's over a year since I updated my poor neglected blog. I noticed in my bio that I have described it as my record for posterity, so I should treat it as such. In a way there's not been much to say about the last year; in another it was an exceptional year of life, given the pandemic and all. We were housebound for months of it, and worried and anxious for most of it. We didn't go anywhere, except Athlone. Didn't see many people, except outdoors. The only constants were work and running,…
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by Julie

Last of the forties

I got three runs in last week, finishing with six miles last Saturday, which I was delighted with, as I haven’t run that far since the marathon. I intend to do longer runs on Saturdays, to keep myself ready for longer distances when the time comes. I hadn’t intended it to be, but that six mile run turned out to be the last run of my forties - I turn fifty tomorrow. It snowed this morning and that killed my plans to get out today; therefore I’m celebrating that last run in retrospect. When I…
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by Julie

A quiet run

I only ran once last week. I wasn’t feeling great all week - women’s troubles as we’d say. The weather wasn’t great either, so I was happy not to run. However I had signed up for a virtual 5 mile run to be done this weekend. To be honest, I was nearly going to skip it: it was cold and wet and who cares if I don’t do it? However I don’t like not doing things I’ve signed up for, and the rain probably meant that the Covid walkers would not be out. It was…
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