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I’ve been a bit lax over the last few weeks. My normal 3-4 runs a week have dwindled to one a week and much shorter too.🥴 just not had no motivation -also worried about slipping on icy surfaces. And my Online Pilates classes stopped for two weeks over Xmas ( and so did I🙄). I had no excuse really as I could have accessed any amount of classes from the website but just didn’t.

We had done a lot of work on strengthening our arms and wrists in the lead up to the break. Couple with extra sewing and crocheting this ended up with me having really painful wrists for two weeks, hardly able to butter bread or turn the key in the ignition. So no Pilates and hardly any running and the Christmas pig out resulted in me piling on the weight. 😥

So this week that has all changed. Most of the Xmas goodies have gone, and classes are back live so I am on it with a vengeance again. No between meal nibbling, Pilates daily and I ran after this morning class too.

I woke this morning at 7.50 and leapt out of bed and downstairs to switch on my iPad for the ZOOM class at 8.00......... I thought I’d have to do the class in my PJs so wasn’t going to switch MY camera on just watch and listen to Ruth while she taught the class ...... but no one else was there. Then I checked and realised the class was at 8.30!! Doh!! Back upstairs and put my running gear on so no excuse once the class finished.

The class was good and we had loosened up every joint so as soon as I logged off it was jacket and thin gloves on, buff round head and out the door. My goodness that was a shock to the system!! I’d warmed up considerably with the Pilates and the cold air hit my lungs like liquid nitrogen.. glad I’d used my inhaler before I started!!! I set off briskly walking and headed for my normal starting place. And then started to run.

There were still some patches of ice in places so I crossed and recrossed the road avoiding these - luckily there were very few cars about. I had to run/ walk this morning as the cold was affecting my breathing quite a bit but it was a beautiful morning and really sunny in places. Makes you feel good to be alive on a day like this. I headed round and into a little housing estate near my home and pootled around here for a while and then back and along the side of the River Yeo, back through the lower end of the town and back round towards the end of the High Street. I passed a small boat on the riverbank, which was full of frozen rain or flood water. Obviously still pretty cold along there. I went to take a snap and then remembered I’d left my phone home and decided to run with no music. Shame really. Then I cut through another little set of flats and back round across and through Pilton Park and then back towards home. Not many other people about this morning, which was good to see, just a couple of dog walkers and another runner going in the opposite direction.

Home again and that was a nice 30 minute trot to set me up for the day. Once I’d showered there was time to finish off that last bit of jigsaw. My son and I started it on Christmas Day after lunch , then my other son and daughter had done a few bits before they went home and Levi and I have gone back to it every now and then since. It did get knocked into the floor by one of the cats when it was 3/4 finished but luckily it was on a wipe clean tablecloth and I managed to rescue it intact. And Loki escaped a thrashing - little pest!!! 🤣🤣

Hapoy New Year and Happy running folks 💪💪🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

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GrannyhugsGraduate10

Well done getting out for that 30mins after your pilates. That's you now restarted your routine and to us so no stopping🤣 happy running 🤗

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limberlouGraduate10 in reply toGrannyhugs

Thanks. This will be the year I get back to full fitness again ( and discard some of my blubber too!!). I am determined !! 💪

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Birdlady64Graduate10

Well done on that run after a pilates class. It was certainly a lovely day to be outside here today. What a change to get some sunshine and no rain!Happy New Year, and happy running 🏃‍♀️

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limberlouGraduate10 in reply toBirdlady64

Yup- looks like dry but cold for a while now. Suits me fine 😁

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acountrycabbage60minGraduate

Ooh, it’s not Christmas without a jigsaw on the go! ☺️

Don’t be hard on yourself about your lack of mojo of late, there’s been plenty of us in the same boat. The usual January blues, the weather, the news.. it’s no wonder we’ve been feeling a little flat!

Glad today’s run refreshed you - sounded like a good one! ☀️ Onwards! ☀️

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limberlouGraduate10 in reply toacountrycabbage

Yeah it’s not like me at all but I’ve been nursing a reluctant son this week with his bad back. He’s like me always up and doing and he’s barely been able to walk since sat morning. He had 3 weeks off over Christmas and we’d planned lots of long walks on Dartmoor and around here but he could barely cross the room and the stairs were an assault course. I’ve been driving him to chiro appointments and running up and downstairs with meals and drinks and meds.

This was after I’ve had over 2 weeks of my own sore wrists which has driven ME mad. Today it was just lovely to get out and run. I did have to contend with tech failure though ... my lovely new Xmas earbuds would not connect to my Bluetooth so I had to run naked. I was so looking forward to music without wires.

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acountrycabbage60minGraduate

Goodness, that’s is certainly enough to zap your energy. Your poor son! I hope he’s fast on the mend soon. The wilds of Dartmoor will be good for the soul when possible 💚 (I used to live in Chagford!)

Tech is usually enough to drive you up the wall on the best of days.. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Speaking of naked runs, I’m trying my first tomorrow!

Take care x

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limberlouGraduate10 in reply toacountrycabbage

I much prefer running with music. 🥴

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Deals1Graduate10 in reply tolimberlou

Happy New year 😊. Great start to your. My blue tooth headphones died around Feb.. And I've not listened to music since. 🤔 I prefer it at the moment as I feel more aware of what's going on around me. I actually quite like it now, never thought I would

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limberlouGraduate10 in reply toDeals1

Oh right. I always find I’m slower when I have no music

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