Dear Diary…
This time I DID meet the lads (well, lad) for a fast tempo effort around Fitz Park.
Rupert and I tore the legs off each other charging around on the grass for 18′ at 8:15/mi pace.
Pain is…
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Breaking Shit
05/01/20 – The ‘Sunday Long Run’
Dear Diary…
Met the lads (no-one) in the beautiful morning sun (evening, pitch black and raining) for the traditional Sunday ‘long run’ (3.19km – no, that’s not a misplaced decimal).
It’s day one. The comeback has begun.
Ran loops (four,…
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The Secret Diary of GF, aged 34 and a half…
Injury.
Why not? It is winter after all.
My body has a way of taking all of the hard work from the Spring and Summer and switching the reset come Winter. Back to zero. Start again.
I like my body…
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Equilibrium: Part 3
Brace yourselves, this is a long one.
It’s the end of my first placement as part of the QTS/PGCE process. I’ve also not run in 4 weeks. A strained soleus saw that little fancy resigned to the gutter. It’s been…
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Realities: The Man with the Hammer
This is a slightly multi-faceted post. I have, like pushing mincemeat through a keyhole, hopefully, managed to link the eponymous ‘Man avec Hammer’ with both hard training and the unintended consequences of ‘hard training’. We’ll see how it reads……
Sure…
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Too much of a good thing…..
I’m yet to fully realise the positive side and definitely cannot see the funny side. Yup. I’m injured. The old achilles has got a bit pissed off with me prancing about in XC spikes and had a bit of a…
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Summer: Twenty-seventeen
Aside from a couple of anomalies my fell season has been just shy of 10 days long.
Frustrating?
Yes.
Surprising?
Not so much.
Injury and ‘life’ have both got in the way. Mainly the ‘life’ side of things.
I had…
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‘Ard
Well that was shit.
Had a meeting, no coffee, with the Man with the Hammer.
Disaster –Â noun – a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship….
Sums up my day fairly…
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The Bob Graham Round: The Sum Of Your Parts…..Part Two
So to the crux of the matter I suppose. Everything was in place and good to go. Had a last minute drop-out from a pacer on Leg 2 but I wasn’t mega phased as Ben is pretty handy at this…
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The Bob Graham Round: The Sum Of Your Parts…..Part One
On Saturday 23rd July at 1am I set off on a series of 5 short runs around the Lakes that I linked together into what is known as the ‘Bob Graham Round’…….BGR for short – you may have already read…
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