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Cool Running Ramblings: Issue 8

Bar bills, knee knack and UrbanDictionary.com It’s been a funny old up and down week this one.  Training started well with Tuesday’s four mile run going beautifully to plan but then I found Thursday’s seven mile run hard going with my legs really aching for the last few miles and my right knee starting to develop a worrying twinge.  Friday’s run was back on track with my knee knack clearing itself up after about a mile and then as a special treat to myself I booked the afternoon off work to prepare for my sister’s wedding. It was a splendid do on

Cool Runnings : Issue 7

Snow, snow and more snow! Well that was fun wasn’t it?  Two weeks of either snow or ice on the pavements has meant that the training plan has had a great big chunk bitten out of it in the last couple


Cool Runnings Ramblings - New Year, new challenges!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Well since recovering from injury and embarking upon a 23 week beginner’s marathon training plan at just eight weeks in I’m already realising just how big a commitment this marathon lark really is.  I’m pretty sure that by


Its’s ’snow’ joke…

As you know, we love our volunteers and supporters and who can blame us?  They help us at events, they spread the work of the groups we support and they help us fundraise to help yet more groups.  They are


Congratulations Maggie Baxter, WOMANKIND!

Maggie  Baxter, WOMANKIND’s Executive Director between 1999 and 2007, has been awarded  an OBE for services to the Voluntary Sector in the New Year’s Honours  List. WOMANKIND staff and partners throughout the world warmly  congratulate Maggie, who continues to promote women’s


Cool Running Ramblings : Issue 5

So following a freak accident involving my left foot and the sharpened heel of a five year old I now found myself scratching my backside at home, under doctor’s orders.  In truth I’d be lying if I said that it


Cool Runnings Rambling : Issue 4

My next revelation on my quest to running enlightenment was a fantastic website which would transform my evenings for weeks to come (much to my other half’s annoyance).  The website is http://gb.mapometer.com (short for mapping pedometer) where you look at