Posts Tagged ‘triathlon’

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Blogroll

July 31, 2009

It’s been sitting there ildly for months. Sometimes new addresses appear and sometimes old ones disappear, but I’ve never really mentioned them. So here’s to the people that get a mention on my blogroll…

Running

Amy Runs a Marathon – 26 year old Amy has already completed a half marathon with her sister and is now training for the full 26.2. The blog is fairly new with the first post in May, but Amy updates on a fairly regular basis and often includes photos.

Bumblebee Running – A handful of posts a month from a twenty-something who has just finished her first triathlon. Worth checking out just for the posts about the big day itself, which are coming in at the moment.

Marathon Mummy – Mother of 4 Rachael is training for the Virgin London Marathon next year in memory of her father. Regular, honest, and often amusing posts – I check here every morning.

Sound Mind, Sound Body – An Irish girl living in Amsterdam and working for ASICS (hence the blog name). Her goal is the New York Marathon later this year. Regular and visually evocative posts. I like reading this one because I seem to be only a few months behind the author in my training.

Warriorwoman Running Blog – A well established blog that I started reading as I started writing this one. Posts have been sporadic of late but with so many new running blogs popping up, it’s good to see how a succesful long-running blog should be kept.

Wheels on Fire – Despite Ally telling me that I needed to create a new category (when commenting that he didn’t fit into either the ‘running’ or ‘non running’ categories), this is staying here, though I must point out that Ally doesn’t run. Still in it’s infancy (first post was in May) but going strong, Ally updates every Sunday on the week’s progress as he aims for paralympic glory in the middle distance track events. We’ve also been promised some more mid-week posts in the future.

Non Running

Borderlines – Borderlines is an online fiction serial written by my friend and up-and-coming author Jasmine Aherne. I’m not really into romance or chick lit myself but I like Jasmine’s short and sweet stories. Following updates online means I only read one chapter at a time – goes well with a cuppa :-)

Chronicles of Sai – My LiveJournal blog for posting day to day rubbish. Most of it is locked though so unless you’re also on LiveJournal you won’t be able to see very much!

Life Through God’s Sunglasses – Ex housemate Claire blogs about life in general but from a Christian viewpoint. Worth checking out for her latest mission to Nepal, which she’s training for at the moment.

The Adventures of Scribbleboy – The patient zero of blogs. The first I started reading and still the most bizarre. Ex housemate Scribs blogs about anything that’s on his mind, occassionally commenting on the challenges readers set him in order to better his life. A must read.

Those Who Know Me – A reasonably new blog from Stan, somewhat inspired by Scribs in that Stan has challenges to complete. 16 posts under his belt already, though with no real theme, this is starting to form into…something!

So there we have it. These are the posts I read on a regular basis. If anyone knows of a good blog that just has to be shared then plase leave a comment! Thanks.

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Last Week: w/c 20th July

July 27, 2009

Monday: Wasn’t sure whether to run today – I’d been getting some twinges in my left knee over the past few weeks but ignored them as I didn’t get them every run and they went within the first 100m. However, Sunday’s run had left me with an aching knee even after I’d got home, though it got somewhat better during the course of the evening. I decided to go anyway and did a new 6.68km route through the city in 41:51 (yes, I’m changing how I write times). Probably a mistake as my knee decided it didn’t like this, which called for some RICE-ing in the afternoon and evening.

I didn’t start to see any improvement in my knee until Wednesday afternoon, walking was easier but I wasn’t anywhere near ready to run on it. Basketball was cancelled again on Wednesday night and so I spent most of the first half of the week entertaining myself with the idea of doing a triathlon (it’s entered my mind a few times but not seriously until now). It’s something that would need some proper research but I’d like to do one, hopefully more than one, at some point.

Friday: Did my Pilates DVD after my press ups. Knee held up so it looks like I’m good to cross-train until it heals properly. Ally mentioned the possibility of getting a 2 week membership at his gym so I might look into that next week.

Saturday: Back to archery this morning. My technique has gone out the window, and it’s surprising just how difficult I found it. I’ll have to work on rebuilding the muscles in my back so I don’t have to take a tea break after every 6 ends.

Sunday: Finally got a basketball training session scheduled, but only 3 of us showed up. It was a good session though – better than some of the regular ones I’ve been to on a Wednesday night. We did a few drills, some suicides (speed stuff pushing up and down the court) and a fair amount of shooting practice. Good fun, and I managed to work up a sweat. Props to Ally for jumping in as coach and setting up some lay ups :-) I also did 3 sets of 10 sit ups on the bench when I got home.

Total Run: 6.68km

On an unrelated note, I donated blood this week. It’s something I’m very much behind and would encourage anyone that doesn’t already go to check out the next donation session. It’s a couple of hours at a time, only 3 times a year, and you get free biscuits :-)