FAREWELL DAZZLING DECEMBER QUEST ✨💫🌟

[Irishprincess]

Well, it’s the last day of the year and the last day of this Quest. A perfect time to look back and summarise how your Quest went.

Did you reach what you set out to do? Perhaps you did more? Or life, injury or other things got in the way and you didn’t quite get there this time?

If you feel like it you can summarise your thoughts below in the comments.

Or, if you’d rather just forget about December and get on with a new year, a new month and a new Quest (hosted by our fabulous Hidden ) then that’s absolutely understandable too 🙂

It’s been an absolute pleasure hosting the Quest for December and I’ve loved reading your posts and updates. There have been some amazing achievements here and your enthusiasm and positivity have been shining through the whole month, so at the end of the day I think we had an amazingly dazzling December!! 🌟💫✨

I wish each and every one of you a healthy, happy New Year and joyous, injury-free running for 2022 x

[roseabi]

Thank you IP, you are fabulous!!!!

I love those hellebores xxx

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to roseabi]

I love Hellebores too, these are always the first to flower in my garden 😍x

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Thank you Irishprincess I don’t always join the quest because I start with a good plan then fizzle out but I dropped in at the beginning of the month and have been keeping up to date through the month. Have a healthy and happy New Year

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

You’ve done brilliantly! A very Happy New Year to you x

[CBDB Graduate10]

Still daily rowing, bar a day of rest weekly. Some stretching. A bit of yoga. But still no running! 🙁

So I’m happy to start into the new year, although it’s scary how fast the year has gone by, even if it was a difficult one.

Have a “great slide” into the new year (as we say in Germany).

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to CBDB]

Daily rowing will build so much strength and stamina 💪

Good for you for keeping at it!

[RunWillie Graduate10]

Thank you Irishprincess for hosting such a dazzling December quest.

I achieved my quest and managed a whole week without running.

Back at it tomorrow with the first park run of the year.

Happy New Year everyone ❤️🏃‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to RunWillie]

Just gone midnight now in Perth W. Australia so may I wish you RunWillie and your family a very Happy New Year for 2022 🏃🏾👍

[RunWillie Graduate10 in reply to AlMorr]

Thank you AlMorr

Happy New Year to you.

We went to bed before midnight 🤣

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to RunWillie]

So did we!

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to RunWillie]

Great photo!

Really well done on your Quest. The week’s rest will do you so much good 🙂

[RunWillie Graduate10 in reply to Irishprincess]

I found it hard taking 8 days off. Good to be back out there today. Happy New Year! 🥰

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to RunWillie]

I took the whole month of January off last year (a mixture of niggles and tiredness) and found it ok but I’m not doing it this year as I have training to do 🙂

Happy New Year to you all 🥂

[ForbiddenPlanet Graduate10]

I would just like to say thank you IP for your gracious and superbly positive hosting this month, and also to the other able hosts from whom I have benefited as a Quester this autumn; Oldfloss in September, Sandra1961 and Shake-and-run in October, and Instructor57 in November.

I am a little surprised at the progress I have made in that time, having just completed a re-run of C25K in August after being mostly on the IC since May 2020, and the weekly check in and unfailing encouragement I have received as a quester has been invaluable in helping me along the way.

Been having a bit of a lazy Christmas, though my thoughts have turned to next year and the running I would like to do; I seem to have bought some high end trainers half price in the Nike sale, so I had better get on and lose some weight to be worthy of running in them!

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to ForbiddenPlanet]

You’re very welcome! I’ve loved hosting this.

Well done on your Quest, you’ve done extremely well and definitely earned a bit of lazing around 🥳

Enjoy your new shoes and Happy New Year to you 🤗

[GoogleMe Graduate10]

Oh my! The Christmases roses... I always have some in memory of an all too brief pregnancy over this period.

It's been a funny old Quest for me. I said I was going to be gentle with myself and I have been. I also said I'd be happy if I managed a run, a yoga practice and a bath... well I had the bath!

We hadn't even been out for walks as much between lousy weather, being busy, and feeling ill. I also, bit of a shocker, had to go and get my heart reset at the hospital (but it worked a treat). We've been out for a walk today for the views and to get the cobwebs blown away - bit of a shocker how much fitness had gone.

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to GoogleMe]

White flowers seem to sparkle at this time of year 🌟I love them.

You had the bath!!! Wonderful. I hope it was luxurious and bubbly 😍 and you spent a long time in it ☺️

Sorry you’ve been ill and ended up at hospital, but good that you’re out there in nature 🌳 The fitness will come back again.

Happy New Year to you 🥂

[nowster Graduate10]

This month has been dominated mainly by the weather. We've had some awful rain at times, including Storm Barra.

This has reduced the time available for running a little. Other things have also taken priority from time to time.

My priority this month has always been to get through the month without getting injured. I think I've done that.

That said, I've been able to do about 100 miles of running this month, though my late target of getting 1000 miles in the year didn't happen. I was only 22km short!

And I kept up my habit of doing a HM distance each month.

Four of the five days I was away in Wales over Christmas visiting my parents, I did 5km. One of them equalled my PB time. Maybe that's why the Christmas excesses have not affected my weight one bit.

Looking towards the New Year, I'm definitely going to be keeping up the habit of doing parkruns, and I'd like to extend my longest distance (currently HM) by a bit. This time last year my longest run was 8km.

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

You’ve had an amazing year 👍 Just think what you could achieve by this time next year!

And yes those storms put a little glitch in our running 😱

Happy New Year to you 🥂

[Frizzbomb67 Graduate10]

Yes bingo card complete! Thanks for hosting Irishprincess and Happy New Year 🥳

Complete bingo card

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to Frizzbomb67]

Absolutely fantastic! Well done to you 👏 Happy New Year to you 🍾

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

Sorry to have missed the Quest this month your Maj, December was just a little too hectic this year to set any exercise goals for myself I would have loved to have joined you. Hoping to get my act together for January and start fresh.

Happy New Year to you 😊xxx

[Irishprincess Graduate10 in reply to Bluebirdrunner]

No worries lovely. December can be a manic month!

Hope you’ve joined the Quest for January….? 🙂

Happy New Year to you and yours xxx

[Bluebirdrunner Graduate10]

☺ I have your Maj 😇 xxx