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Got Fat So Ran: March 2014

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Wednesday, 19 March 2014. When it's all falling apart around you, or the stress of life is overwhelming, or there are too many decisions to make, or too many people to keep happy. What ever you do. DON'T STOP RUNNING. Run through it all. They might not be your best runs. They might be slow or the distance short. But when everything else is spinning out of control . You won't be. With your feet firmly on the road, your running rhythm moving you forward, you won't spin out of control. Sunday, 16 March 2014.

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Got Fat So Ran: The Sucky 5k.

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Friday, 7 August 2015. A half marathon is 21ks. 21! And I've done HEAPS. So why why why is 5k so hard? It's cos of this. If your brain knows you're doing 21ks . it will set everything in your body to run 21ks. If your brain knows you're doing 5ks . it will set everything in your body to run 5ks. And as you know, the first 2ks of every run SUCKS and the last 2ks of every run SUCKS. So that's 4 SUCKY ks out of 5. Nothing for it, but to suck up the suckyness and Run. Lace Up. Hair Up. RUN!

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Got Fat So Ran: September 2013

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Sunday, 29 September 2013. The road will forgive you. There is SO much written about how to get back in to running if you've lost your drive for it. Experts offer advice like . Sleeping in your running gear, or . Make a new playlist for your iPod. But the experts have missed the point. So we assume the road won't. Get your stinkin shoes on. And run. The road will forgive you. Tuesday, 17 September 2013. You've got to pay a price. Work out what you want. Now. Be prepared to pay the price. But then she wen...

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Got Fat So Ran: July 2014

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Thursday, 31 July 2014. Give yourself some credit. Remember when you ran for 1 whole kilometre? Remember your first 5k? I do I had to have a 2 hour sleep and take two aspirins! Remember the first time you went for your first 60 minute run? You ran for A WHOLE HOUR! We forget. Those distances and times were a big deal. Just running is a big deal. Give yourself some credit. Saturday, 26 July 2014. The drive home from Nicky's is bliss. It's 20 minutes of bliss. I start to get cold and a bit shivery. It's no...

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Got Fat So Ran: February 2014

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Tuesday, 25 February 2014. This is a text conversation between me and a good friend. Yes it's awful. Yes it's embarrassing. When you first start out it really is. But there's only one first run. Get that awful, embarrassing run out of the way and you'll never have to do it again. I know. Because I was fat. And that first run was awful and embarrassing. The Hutt News Fun Run is on in two weeks. Enter it. Walk it. Crawl it. Do it. It's where it all started for me. Sunday, 23 February 2014. I'm writing this...

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Got Fat So Ran: LIFE... SOME PICS

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Got Fat So Ran: WHY I RUN

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It was my baby sister Ruth who gave me a good kick up my big fat lard arse. She came back from New York, took one look at me and said "we need to get you running'. You need to believe me when I say this . I had NEVER run. EVER. I was the girl who was always sick on PE days or swimming sports. But I was also the woman who hated how fat I had got and hated that I was still wearing maternity jeans and actually, I was the woman who hated myself. We ran for 11 minutes that day. You can run. I promise.

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Got Fat So Ran: June 2014

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Sunday, 29 June 2014. You gotta sweat everyday. That's what my niece Zoe said to me once. She's like her Aunty. She loooooves her food. But unlike her Aunty she's as slim as a pin. When she was scoffing down a Hershey's Chocolate Pie one day . I marvelled in the sight and said. How do you do it? You gotta sweat every day Aunty" she said. Wednesday, 25 June 2014. Are you still running? How's your running going? I get that a bit. So when they ask. "Are you still running? Tell you what feels waaaay better t...

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Got Fat So Ran: November 2013

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Friday, 22 November 2013. Sometimes you just have to give yourself a break. A looooong day today. And a hard day. And I didn't want to put on my shoes. But I gave myself a break. I ran with just music. No watch. No map. No running app telling me my pace every 5 minutes. I just ran. Not trying to beat a time or go further. I gave myself a break. And the run is done. Thursday, 21 November 2013. I felt so brittle today that I honestly thought I would break. The run is done. The. Run. Is. Done.

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Got Fat So Ran: January 2015

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Saturday, 17 January 2015. Can I get an amen sister? Nicky and I had an epic run today. Everything felt good and easy (ish). We ran further and for longer than what we set out to do. I feel like I wanna high five and fist pump every single person that walks past my house. Honestly. There should be a movie made out of that run it was so blimmin epic. And there should be a movie made out of the food I enhaled after. Amen sister. Amen. Tuesday, 13 January 2015. My husband has started running again! Need a k...