Category: Fitness
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Mes que un jog: On the Barcelona half marathon
What feels like a lifetime ago, I went on a city break to Madrid, and was amused to find that the boy had packed his running kit so that he could enjoy his usual weekend jog while we were there. “HA! What sort of exercise-obsessed loser eats into valuable café con leche nursing and people…
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Walking back to happiness (or: Last month a Fitbit changed my life)
Don’t run before you can walk, they say. But if 2014 was all about finding my running feet, then the first few weeks of this year have been about finding my, err…feet. Yes; I’ve discovered the sheer, unadulterated joy that is putting one trotter in front of the other. And, dear reader, it’s been a…
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13.1 miles from home girl: Or, what a Half Marathon feels like for a first timer
So, we’ve already established that I’m not a great runner. After training hard over the Summer to make it possible to run the Cardiff 10k at the beginning of September (picking up all sorts of injuries along the way), there was only one thing for it once I’d done it, got the T-shirt. Sign up…
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What I learned from finishing the Cardiff 10k…
About two months ago (on July 7th 2014 to be precise), I pulled on my trainers and headed out to my local park in Grangetown, just to see how far I could comfortably run. For innocent bystanders, it must have been like watching an asthmatic penguin rushing desperately for a bus. I wheezed my way…
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On joining a gym….
I bet none of these chancers were doing what I was doing last night. Viz. drinking gin in the garden, picking apart the finer lyrical points of Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black album while gesturing expansively, my cigarettes lighting up the dark garden like poisonous fireflies. Oh no. And I bet none of them spent…
Silver Disco Daps 