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Swimming
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with swimming. I learned to swim at my primary school in Redbourn where we used to use the fire pool at the local Brooke Bond factory for our lessons. Once a...
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Running in silence
At Groveland cross-country race yesterday morning, we started with a minute’s silence because it was Remembrance Sunday. There are always some instructions at the beginning of a race like that, about...
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Bodily knowledge
I had a hospital appointment this week for something completely unrelated to cancer – or that’s what I thought. For several months I have had pain in my mouth, making it difficult to open my mouth very...
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Palestine Marathon DNF
The plan was for Harry and I to run the race together, a mother and son team running in solidarity with a nation of mothers and sons, fathers and daughters. I wanted to aim for a good for age time of...
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High maintenance
I’ve always thought of myself as a low-maintenance woman. I’m in awe of women who sit on the tube with a bulging make-up bag and apply it expertly, but I wouldn’t know what to do with most of the...
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Fractured
You would think after last year, when I said I was ready for London and patently wasn’t, that I would have learned to keep my race hopes to myself rather than being quite so public about them. Turns...
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Life on crutches
Four weeks on, and my crutches are now strangely familiar. At the fracture clinic, they said to increase the weight on my fractured leg after two weeks but I’m still mainly non-weight bearing because...
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Swimming outdoors
(from top left: London Fields Lido, Hillingdon Lido, Hampton Pool, Brockwell Lido) I’m between jobs at the moment and have been treating myself to an outdoor swim in a different pool each week. The...
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Summer in a sleeve
They tell you about the risk of lymphoedema when they take your lymph nodes out. For two years I faithfully did my exercises, arm swinging and fist pumping to get the lymph flowing, but for some reason...
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February strength exercises
Enticed by the promise of a better runner’s body, I bought this book three and a half years ago. It hasn’t made any difference, but that’s because I haven’t done the exercises. I found the eight week...
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