How did AA help me through the long hot summer?
Category: Health & Fitness
My sister’s story in her own words: Living though not loving the reality
How to focus on what you actually want to achieve
Sizzling at 60 – Meet Sue!
Recently I have enjoyed hosting a few guests on my blog as part of my People of Interest feature where I share interesting people with you my interesting readers. I have been posting these every Tuesday over the past few months. I believe everyone has a story to tell. It’s true, everyone has a story and sometimes we just have to…
What you need to know to cycle the beautiful Hauraki RT for the first time
My husband and I are keen bike riders and Rail Trail enthusiasts and we take every opportunity to get out and about, seeing the countryside while riding our bikes. Our little town has finally started building it’s very own Rail Trail and we are heavily involved in the project. In November 2016 we travelled with friends to New Zealand’s South…
Running with the Black Cockatoos
You’ve heard of running with the bulls, well today I went running with the black cockatoos! In Australia black cockatoos indicate rain is on the way but there was hardly a cloud in the sky and it was a very warm 27 degrees celsius at 6pm. It felt so good to be back out there in my own space, singing…
A sentence a day for July: a writing challenge
A Sentence a Day – a month in review I joined in with some wonderful bloggers for the Sentence a Day writing challenge for the month of June, and enjoyed it so much I’m back again for July! On the first Thursday of each month, we link our posts up and can read what everyone else has been up to…
I DID it – my way!
Run Melbourne 2017 Last week I wrote a post about my upcoming Run Melbourne 2017 event – I CAN do this – and I am pleased to say not only did I do it, I did really well! This is a quote from my post last week: I’m not fast, I’m not stylish, I tend to run a bit heavy, I’m sometimes…
I CAN do this!
Running has been a part of my life for quite a while now. I’ve written quite a few posts about it over the years and here comes another one!! I’m not fast, I’m not stylish, I tend to run a bit heavy, I’m sometimes happy when it’s over and I’m no longer what you’d call a youngster. I still…
A sentence a day for June: a writing challenge
A Sentence a Day – a month in review I’ve decided to join some wonderful bloggers for the Sentence a Day writing challenge for the month of June. On the first Thursday of each month, we link our posts up and can read what everyone else has been up to during the month. It’s also great to read back through…
My friend is a bit ‘different’
Remind me again why am I doing this?
Remind me again why I’m doing this? Running I mean! I haven’t written a post about just running since July last year but I have been running, on and off, in the meantime. The months after July were wet, miserable and cold. I was also suffering from looking down the barrel of redundancy but I knew I had to…
Sense of self
Four Corners A Sense Of Self When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, crippling her with pain & panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life. This episode was shown on Four Corners on ABC TV recently but, due to being away, I missed it. I finally…
Organised chaos – Weekly Photo Challenge
Bike chaos Chaos is the prompt for this week’s photo challenge – let’s embrace disorder and its creative power. I very nearly deleted these photos from a trip to Sweden a while ago, as they looked too messy and chaotic! We love visiting countries like Denmark and Sweden for their accepting attitude to bikes. These sorts of photos really appeal to me.…
The quest for a rail trail – Weekly Photo Challenge
I have always been a bike rider. One of the best memories from my childhood involved us getting new bikes one year for Christmas. We have a family photo somewhere of the three of us kids standing proudly displaying our new bikes and smiling so broadly – we realised how lucky we were. We were always out riding after that and had…
Fallen
My walk today was more like an Olympic obstacle event. I was entered into the steeplechase, hurdles, running and the walking events. Not quite a pentathlon. We have had so much rain lately that everywhere I walked there were trees down across the tracks and muddy puddles to negotiate. I had to problem solve every few metres, I had choices to…
Run Melbourne 2016
Well I did it! Despite my dire prediction in my Run Melbourne post a few weeks ago, I actually ran in this 5km event! I don’t know how I did it but I ran, I walked, I felt good, I ran some more and I really enjoyed myself. I had hardly walked , let alone run, for weeks beforehand due to a…
Run Melbourne
The Run Melbourne event and I don’t have a good history. I first entered the event in 2014 and was excited as I’d been in training for many months. I raised funds beforehand for Parkinson’s Disease as my father suffers from this insidious disease and was proud to help out in this way. Tragically my husband’s younger brother died suddenly…
Contemplation – Week 14: Challenges
Hello! I really enjoy Desleyjane’s weekly contemplation posts as they make me think about things – which I suppose is what contemplation is all about! Each week desleyjane gives us a prompt from her journal and this week it is: What challenge did you overcome today? I admit to feeling very challenged lately, about all sorts of things. My challenge…
A long run
Today I ran for 11.3kms! How amazing is that? If you’ve followed my running progress to date you’d know what a big deal this is for me! I’ve been following a training plan to improve my 5km running time and I’m determined to try to get below 30 minutes at some stage this year. I’ve been committed and have followed…
