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Because I haven’t been posting much I haven’t really told you how my Gold Coast Half Marathon Training is going – it’s now about eight weeks until the race surely so I should be in great shape right? Erm, no. I’m stuffed up big time! I’ll be honest, training for…
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The other day I was lucky enough to pootle off for a bit of a staycation in a beachside town called Cronulla about an hour of Sydney. I was there to review a hotel, but the PR team had put on a few activities for us while we were there…
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A few weeks ago, it was the Walt Disney World Half marathon, I wasn’t running it but I was following some friends who were on Facebook when all of a sudden it was announced that the race was cancelled. Lightning was forecast en route and so they had to call…
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There’s a huge hoohah right now about Marks and Spencer (and House of Fraser) selling a burkini for Muslim women to swim in – this interested me as a few weeks ago I got an email from a lady called Anna Peters who runs the sports clothing company AM Active which makes exercise…
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I’m still loving my new gym – though technically I suppose it’s not that new any more – pretty much every session they do something that surprises me and my muscles. The other morning it happened when I was lying on an exercise mat. ‘You’re going to do crunches, followed…
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It’s time for one of those posts in my occasional ‘what you need to know to get started’ series – and this time I’m looking at Pilates. First up – let’s talk about how to say it as it’s not that obvious. I had a boss once who called it Pie…
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Remember a few weeks ago I told you I’d joined a new gym and that, because each time I went I got my own trainer, I really didn’t know what they were going to make me do each session…..well, it’s all still going well and yes, they are still surprising…
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My running buddy today has considerably shorter legs than me……despite this she’s speeding ahead, ears flapping in the wind. Normally having a running buddy this much quicker than me would demoralize me (and the ears thing would totally freak me out) but today, my running buddy is Missy, the Springer…
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‘Download a new free cycling HIIT app’ said the advert for Push2Beat that popped into my twitter feed – which I guess proves that they work as I was interested. Admittedly I was mostly interested as the app came from a company called Skip2Beat. I’d interviewed their founder Wesley Eastman…
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Did you know that you should never use fabric softener when you wash your gym kit? I didn’t until I saw the tip mentioned in a magazine article I was reading this weekend. The piece didn’t give me much more information or a source and so, intrigued, I decided I had to…
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