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Day 8 – Harder to Breathe

January 8, 2011
Day 8 - Harder to Breathe

Well I’m still breathing but at Janathon Day 8 I’m finding it harder and harder to blog. Daily jogging is a doddle in a comparison to daily blogging. The pressure to find something worth sharing is building and it doesn’t get easier when I perform the run on the treadmill in the back room – [...]

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Day 7 – A Night on the Tiles

January 8, 2011
Day 7 - A Night on the Tiles

We had plans for this evening, none of which encompassed Janathon. I should have thought ahead and gone for a pre-work run but I didn’t. Instead I was sitting on the tube at something past 11pm thinking I wasn’t really in the mood for midnight running. We’d all been to see Blood Brothers and I [...]

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Day 5 and the Ballistic Kitty

January 5, 2011
Day 5 and the Ballistic Kitty

The treadmill mounted a little skirmish today. It catapulted the little kitten off the end of the track and into the legs of a dining chair and then it did it’s absolute best to send me off in the exact same way. I normally bumble along at 7kph with a zero incline but today I [...]

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The Gadgets Keep Getting Bigger

September 18, 2010
The Gadgets Keep Getting Bigger

We took receipt of the largest box in the world yesterday. I am just beginning to get over the stress of it now. It took 3 of us to haul it across the threshold and then I spent the rest of the afternoon emptying the dining room of extraneous clutter such as dining tables and [...]

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A Running Conversion

February 24, 2010
A Running Conversion

I was offered some lovely Mizuno running shoes to try out last week but they were pink so I looked around to find an unsuspecting victim and spotted a non-runner beside me. The non-runner has been known to run on occasion but the occasions are brief and of the sprint and die variety. She was [...]

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Blame it on the Horses

February 4, 2010
Blame it on the Horses

I fell off the treadmill today. Or at least I stumbled and found myself being propped up by my neighbouring runner. It was reasonably embarrassing. I picked the machine directly in front of a bank of tv’s and was happily listening to my audio book, glancing from one flickering screen to another when one of [...]

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