A blog about midlife, travel, adventure – and all things in between
MDC - I've registered, you can too | Mother's Day Classic. I have just registered for my first 5km fun run - the Mothers Day Classic in Canberra on May 11 2014. I am excited but also a bit nervous! It's for a great cause and I will be running it with my daughter Sarah and her …
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Sydney was awash on Wednesday. A storm had hit just as I arrived and it rained solidly for the next few hours. Later a severe weather warning was issued as more storms were forecast. I took this photo from my hotel window to capture the night sky with the storm clouds building. It's looking over …
I've been thinking about this week's writing challenge , the sound of silence, for a few days now and I always come back to the same question - is there a difference between silence and just plain quiet? According to google search, silent means not making or accompanied by any sound while quiet means making little or …
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My magical morning run!
Hit the snooze button and miss this....no way!! Morning runs are so worth getting up for, especially when it's a morning like this!
Decided to have a rest over the weekend and feel very relaxed and ready for the week ahead. I took this photo early one morning last week and love it as it is my view every morning as I return home from my run/walk session. How lucky am I to have this view every day?
Finally it's raining! We have had such hot weather for weeks and with days of bushfire smoke added in for good measure, it's nice to finally have some relief! It's hard to comprehend that in some places, like in the UK where my daughter lives, that flooding is occurring and in the US heavy snow …
I have just realised that I am really missing my zero to hero community! I haven't posted in a while as I haven't had the nudge that the daily challenge gave me. I have just spent a nice evening fiddling with my blog putting into use some of the skills that I learnt throughout the 30 …
This morning my 5km walk/run was more of a gentle meander due to my spectacular running partner - the sun rising over the ocean. It was too beautiful to run away from so I had to keep stopping to take photo after photo of the stunning red orb floating up through the sea mist. Sunrise …
The challenge for week 1 of this round of 12wbt is to write a letter to ourselves answering the following questions. It's a good exercise and I think I'm lucky as I've been blogging about my feelings throughout the first round and into my second round, so I have an idea of what's been going on in my …
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Today I started the 12wbt 10km running program. I'm not nearly as stressed as I was at the start of my Learn to Run program 12 or so weeks ago. I'm an old hand at this now!! I am following a similar meal plan to last round and now know all the tricks of customising …
Day 30 of the Zero to Hero 30 day challenge sort of indicates the end, but for some of us it is a beginning. We have come through the challenge with flying colours (despite not doing every task) and have learnt so much about our blogging voices, improved our pages, made friends in the blogosphere, …
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Tumbatrek 2014 Today was my final Super Saturday session on the Learn to Run program and what a day it's been!! I walked nearly 15 Kms over 4.5 hours on the beautiful Hume and Hovell walking track, burnt 910 calories, enjoyed great company and all this was done in very hot conditions. Mixing politics with …
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