Amazingly, i am into my third week of running already! I am really getting used to it now, and thoroughly enjoying it. I think the biggest impact occurs in the first few weeks, so it is very gratifying.
This week’s program:
5 minutes brisk walk to warm up.
90 seconds run.
90 seconds walk.
3 minutes run.
3 minutes walk.
90 seconds [...]

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Today’s Caturday cat came from icanhascheezburger, but could just have easily have appeared on Mighty Optical Illusions - i follow both sites through Bloglines and wasn’t sure at first which site had posted it! :)
moar funny pictures
I’m not quite sure how they did that!
I am taking things very easily today, pottering around doing a few [...]

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I am really enjoying coming home and singing the blessings and lighting the candles. It is reminding me how beautiful spirituality and ritual can be, when you simply view it as something to benefit your soul. Here is our chanukkiyah on day 3 of Chanukah:

I love how, despite the chanukkiah being so delightfully cheap and [...]

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I did my first Week 2 run today. The same amount of running and walking, but arranged differently: it was a minute and a half of running followed by 2 minutes of walking, repeated six times. Not too taxing, apart from one killer of an uphill. But i made it, and the really amazing thing [...]

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We have our good friend Nat with us for the weekend, and are having a lovely time together.
I got up early yesterday and went for my run. I saw both Venus and Mars, with a nice half-moon between the two, plus a whole lot of stars. It was beautiful. My run was a bit harder [...]

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I bought some running shoes today! Yes, i’m actually serious about this, lol!
I went to a proper sports shop along with a colleague from work (for moral support) and they had this treadmill and a video at my feet. I had to take off my shoes and socks, and they filmed me running! Then they [...]

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I am now officially a ‘runner’! I just went for my first run on the Couch-to-5k programme! Found by Nye yesterday, it is a real motivator, a plan that i can realistically follow.
For a few months i have been feeling guilty about my lack of exercise, but whenever i have tried running before i get [...]

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