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January 22nd

Sport Relief

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Aha! I have a solution to what to do next after CT5K: Nye has reminded me that we want to run 3 miles for Sport Relief on Sunday 16th March! Hooray!
This is a very good incentive for me to keep up with the running, however, i don’t think i really need to run 3 miles [...]

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January 21st

CT5K - what next?

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The time has come when i must decide what, if anything, i am going to do after Couch-to-5K.
To be quite honest, i am now bored of running around Winchester. I did 30 minutes tonight and it wasn’t particularly difficult; it was just dull. The question now is not whether i can do it - it’s [...]

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January 19th

I love weekends!

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Thank goodness it is the weekend. I feel so tired, really taking it easy this weekend.
I got up at 7am to run. I was naughty though: i didn’t manage the full 28 minutes (although in my defence, i did at least 25 minutes, running all the way out to Winnall and back!). I came home [...]

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January 14th

28-minute run

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I am on Week 8 of Couch-to-5K. Tonight’s run was 28 minutes … not a great challenge really, though i know i wouldn’t have wanted to do it a few weeks ago! At the end of the run i did a SUPER-fast sprint! I was on a slight downhill, and my legs and arms just [...]

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January 11th

Fit, healthy and happy

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I feel like a Life Review is in order. But i’ll keep it short. [Edit] no i didn’t! It’s kinda long!

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December 30th

Running news

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I have continued my running over the Christmas break, including one three-mile route in Kent.
On Friday night i had my first 20-minute non-stop run. I was quite nervous leading up to it, but you know what, i did it!! I even did a bonus minute, i enjoyed it so much! I am really pleased with [...]

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December 21st

Holidays!

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Heheh, it felt like Christmas Eve at work today. Most of us are away next week, so it was a very laid back atmosphere. We were meant to be hammering a test system and i kept logging quotes from Scroobius Pip, such as “Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit” - “Thou shalt not [...]

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December 19th

OCD

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My slightly OCD tendencies seem to become more apparent when i am running. Once upon a time i invented an idea that going upstairs i had to start with my right foot, and going down i had to start with my left. Then it started to apply to kerbs of pavements too. Which is fine [...]

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December 17th

Still running

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I am now into Week 4 of Couch-to-5K and it was the hardest challenge yet. Every run up until now has only included 8 minutes of running, the rest walking. The runs have been spaced out differently to build up my stamina. Today the amount of running doubled and the walking greatly reduced. By the [...]

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December 12th

Everyone’s an amateur astronomer!

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Astronomy is suddenly cool, it seems! This morning one colleague came in and said, “I saw Mars last night!” Another said, “I saw Mars this morning, and possibly Venus too!” I said, “I think i might have seen Mercury this morning!” and another colleague sent us all an email alerting us to the Geminids meteor [...]

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