Small Stone 18-1-2012
I need a microwave big enough to sleep in. I could doze for an hour and come out looking like I’d slept a full 8.
Month: January 2012
Small stone 17-1-2012
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The menopause manual doesn’t mention looking and feeling like a candle melting around the middle.
The path to Betterdom!
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The flag’s gone up and thousands of inspirational, motivated and committed thrill-seekers tumble towards the start line signalling the launch of Michelle Bridges’ 2012 12wbt programme Round 1. Today, the first pre-season task has been opened up. It seems so basic, so simple – but I’m reminded of something I’ve been telling my clients over and over for the past months: A dream will always be a dream until you write it down. Then it becomes a goal! I love this idea...
Small stone 16-1-2012
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If the tennis ball at the receiving end of Rafa Nadal’s forehand could feel dizzy, it would feel like the inside of my head right now.
Small stone 14-1-2012
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A shadow etched into a beautiful morning, a homeless presence cocooned in a sleeping bag on the seafront bench; no hope of future wings; no hope of future.
Small stone 14-1-2012
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Scrambled thoughts poach tranquillity and order from dawn’s eggshell yellow skies
Small stone 13-1-2012
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‘I am not going to go running up and down stairs putting lions into microwaves’ is a sentence I never thought I’d say.
All the Ks: Kettle bells, Karate + Kilometres + Kickboxing
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After the disappointment of knees giving in at the first hurdle, things are looking up – and looking ‘up’ is about all I am able to do today, since ‘standing’ up appears to be out of the question – well, not without a lot of old-lady moaning and groaning. Ouch, but everything hurts now … all in a more or less good way, though. My kettlebell half-hour of two days ago has caught up with me – the swings, the lunges, the squats, shoulder presses, snatches...
Small stone 12-1-2012
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Watching the sun play peekaboo with Earth … Sunny face, Cloudy face, Sunny face …
I’m very bad at resting!
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I’ve been to the osteopath. She’s kindly reminded me that perhaps the fact that IT bands in both knees are screaming is a plea for me to stop running on them. I’ve promised I will. Next year. Just a couple more challenges to face and then … then I’ll stop running. I’ve promised not to run for four weeks! I’ve promised I’ll row instead – or spin. God, I’m such a liar! I’ve already failed miserably. But not too, too, tooooooooooooo...