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On the seventh day of Christmas I did the Auld Lang Syne Fell Race. It was fast, wet, muddy, icy in places but much warmer than it was the other week when we were in Howarth for the Stoop Fell Race.This race always attracts a good field and is now pre entry only as its such a popular race.&nbs .. Read More
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On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.... peace and quiet as kadi was sleeping at her aunties and uncles!!! Peace and quiet at last. Watch this now, I will wake up in the night and not be able to sleep. She's a good sleeper really, she must get it from her mum, but .. Read More
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On the fifth day of Christmas and it dawned on me that a week today I will be back at work.Where has Christmas gone? Today I did a session around Wythenshawe Park, Manchester. Its totally flat round there and allowed me to hit my 5 x 5min efforts as hard as I could. The snow and ic .. Read More
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On the fourth day of Christmas I only did a run. And that was about it all day.Today has been one them days where I just hung out at home, did a bit of ironing and played with Kadi and her her Christmas toys.Ran with Gaz and Carl on a nice 10 mile run which was mainly on the roads. The s .. Read More
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On the third day of Christmas it rained!It rained and turn all the snow to very very slippy ice.The plan at the start of the week was to race the Ribble Valley 10k, but I picked up a cold and felt it was best not to do the race. As it happened todays race got cancelled due to bad weather. .. Read More
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On the second day of Christmas I got a cold!I went out and did my usualy 6 mile run as I do the day before a race but I knew racing with the cold I had was not going to be the right thing to do. I had a cold for a few days but nothing more than a lot of snot and running nose! So after my .. Read More
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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, ok then the wife gave to me, a nice shirt. A bit chavy but Jason Ward will be impressed with it!I got up at 5am on Christmas morning to make sure I got out for my run before my daugter, who will be three in a few weeks had chance to wake u .. Read More
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All is quiet, there is not a sound to be heard. Ok, well thats not true, because I have just shifted a small toy store from one room to the lounge and the little devil I call my daughter has just woke up!!! Tonight we had planned to get her to hand over all her dummies and to leave them .. Read More
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This evening is the best feeling I get all year. Usually at this time on a Sunday I am packing my bag, getting the shirts out for the week and preparing myself for another week at work. But tonight, there is no need to get a shirt ironed, dust down my shoes and to make sure I have my pen .. Read More
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Being a distance runner you get to spend many an hour on your own running along. I enjoy group runs, running with one other person and also running all on my own. Sometimes I like running on my own because you get to spend an hour or two in your own company and it gives you a great .. Read More
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What a difference 24 hours make!On Thursday night Jason Ward and I went for a good ten mile run from my house. What fun! Dicing with the cars, dodging the traffic and avoiding the sheet ice that seemed to by all over the route. It was becoming a difficult decission between getting .. Read More
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Since getting back from the marathon I have taken a good recovery period. I had 16 days off running and in that time I didn't do any cycling and swimming. I just rested along with participating in some core stability classes at Athlete Matters. The core stability work is growing on .. Read More