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My Half Marathon bucket list!
I got a very exciting email last week from a dear friend who lives in a European capital city and works for a Famous Boss. The aforementioned Famous Boss wanted to do a particular half-marathon but...
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A week in my Brooks – January 18th
Following on from Wednesday’s Bucket List post, if you have any recommendations of races I could do near you then let me know and I’m adding them to the original post so I don’t forget!! Anyway, I’m...
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Not as brave as I thought I was.
Our first few days in the UK have been characterised by one word. Snow. We have loads of the stuff…plus ice and temperatures well below freezing by night and often by day as well. It is seriously cold...
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In which your heroine gets a backbone!
By Tuesday, it had stopped snowing so we left the chilliness of Wiltshire and headed four hours north to Yorkshire and my in-laws’ for the week. The roads there are busier so had been gritted better,...
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The run must go on…
Since we left the UK in 2010, a new phenomenon has struck the UK – Parkrun. This is a series of weekly 5k races in parks in many UK cities and towns across the country. They are free of charge...
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Hills and trains…
It makes me laugh how weather-focussed this blog has been since I landed in the UK – my nation is (rightfully) obsessed with the weather. However on the night after our epic snow-run, it rained…and...
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Race report: Longleat 10k
Yesterday was Racing Day!!! I really wanted to run a race during this trip, primarily as an excuse to catch up with my lovely friend Nic. Nicola and I have been friends for 20 years (how did this...
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A day-trip to Paris
Well, Happy February 6th everybody! It’s my birthday! I am even further from 21 than I was yesterday!!! I’m spending the day without my lovely Husband but with my parents, which is pretty special. And...
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Running to Stonehenge
Since the Longleat 10k, I’ve had a very slack week when it comes to running. I had some shin pain after the races so wisely ditched my plans for a recovery run on Monday. Then we went to Paris on...
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Running in Kailua
Hi from gorgeous Hawaii! Oh my word, this place is amazing. We’re not big beach people and Hawaii wasn’t somewhere we immediately wanted to visit when we moved to California, but everyone raved…and so...
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A wet weekend in Seattle
Last week, the Husband and I celebrated 10 years of married life which is a BIG deal I think! I still really like him! He seems to like me too. So we went on a ‘Romantic Mini- Break’ to Seattle at the...
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Melbourne!
We arrived in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon and flew out early on Wednesday morning. Just two and a half days there, but it was awesome. What a great city! It felt very much like London, probably due...
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The Big Island: Kona side
The west shore of the Big Island is very different to the lush east shore – here it’s stark and arid. Lava fields abound. Black lava is literally piled up across great swathes of land, making it often...
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Arizona
My word, Arizona. You really are spectacular! We spent just two nights and two days in the Grand Canyon State but it really blew us away. The drive from Las Vegas was somewhat dull – the landscape was...
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Georgia
We rolled into Atlanta in a rainstorm that drenched the roads and cut the power temporarily from thousands of houses. It was July 4th and we had a hot date at an Independence Day party with one of my...
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Washington, DC
I was curious about Washington DC. I’d been before a few times – most recently was a trip five years ago when I’d JUST started blogging. I went with two friends and had an absolutely wonderful time. We...
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Connecticut
One of the delights of this summer-long road-trip has been ticking states off our lists! There are many that we have simply driven through – 2 hours in New Mexico, one hour in Mississippi. We realise...
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts was exciting for us because we finally saw the sea again – seven weeks after leaving the Pacific at Oceanside we ran onto the beach in Cape Cod and dipped our toes in the Atlantic. It...
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Maine
All throughout our trip, when people have asked our plans for the East Coast, they’ve always said ‘Maine, you need to go to Maine’. So we went to Maine. Maine, we fell head-over-heels in love with you....
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(24 hours in) New Hampshire
From Maine, our next goal was Stowe, Vermont. It was about a four hour drive and entailed crossing New Hampshire. I have to be honest, I knew nothing about New Hampshire and when I got a map before me,...
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