My Christmas Day run

December 29, 2011

I woke up on Christmas morning and decided that this was to be the day of ‘take off’. I have been re- hab ing my knee for such a long time and I felt ready to let loose! I drank a lovely pre run cup of coffee and set off for a ‘long run’.
Christmas day [...]

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Running in the rain with Fi again!

December 18, 2011

I ran down the road in the dark at 6.45am on Friday morning and soon saw the figure of my friend Fi emerging from the blackness towards me. We set off to the seafront and talked our way along to the end and back again while it slowly got light, no dramatic sunrises to herald [...]

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cafe con leche while spectating the Majorca marathon

December 11, 2011

I am rather enjoying a home from home experience, sitting in a café with the sea across the road, but it is warm and cloudy, rather than cold and sunny, as I hear Eastbourne is today, and I am drinking café con leche rather than a cappuccino.
I am here in Majorca with my friend Wendy; [...]

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Dancing Girl

December 4, 2011

As I write I have ‘The chorus of the Hebrew slaves’ by Verdi on repeat. I keep hearing it on the radio when driving. I love it so much that I bought ‘100 best Verdi’ from Amazon imagining it must be included, and thankfully it is!
 I am then off to the gym to run some [...]

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The art of running

November 28, 2011

It is Sunday afternoon and I am recovering in a café from running for an hour! Being injured for so long has made me forget how much energy running uses. I have been training consistently, and quite hard, on all the equipment in the gym, but there is something about running that somehow seems to [...]

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Flying free

November 21, 2011

I trained outdoors again a little bit last week, because although the gym is keeping me incredibly fit, I have been missing the downs and the sea. I have come to realise that I really need my ‘sea fix’ everyday, and that I have been missing its ever changing moods, its power and beauty – [...]

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Allow the inside to show on the outside

November 13, 2011

I am making many new friends in my new indoor gym life. I was unaware how ‘noticed ‘I have been. This is a bit denial ish behavior, thinking about it, I am rather obvious! Simulating up to sixty miles of running on static exercise equipment means I am there A LOT!  A woman who goes [...]

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Insight and realisation through yoga

November 6, 2011

When I am out running on the downs and I see my friends running in the distance, I can spot who they are from a long way off, just from their running action. They can recognise me too of course!
We all have unique patterns of movement; some were there when we were small and are [...]

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The magic of physical expression

October 29, 2011

I feel rather that I am in a different body at the moment. The difference is quite subtle and probably not really noticeable to anyone who might meet me clothed in day time clothing! But if you are to meet me in the gym then the change can be seen. I am in a different [...]

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A welcome home…

October 23, 2011

I have just spent two days enjoying the occasion of my sisters 50th birthday. Special occasions always offer a reason to gather and simply be together and she wanted a quiet but celebratory time, with her nearest and dearest. So Rosy and her family, my brother and his wife ( children grown and scattered) and [...]

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