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A Step On The Path: June 2015

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A Step On The Path. Sunday, 7 June 2015. Dragons, not the Sutton Bank TT and rainbows in the rain at Thirsk. A lot to catch up on, but I will keep it brief. Second HDSRL fixture for 2015 was hosted by Dragon Aire at Yeadon, near Leeds. I was told this was an off road course and that I would enjoy it! We got there with time to walk from the cricket club down through town to the start and to get warmed up. I can't remember the course in detail, but it was very much off road! I dropped all that off and jogg...

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A Step On The Path: July 2014

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A Step On The Path. Saturday, 12 July 2014. Early July, not much happening. What it says in the title! Following on from the Swaledale social run, we went to Kilburn Woods for a Monday night hill reps session with Sonja. Wednesday was a time trial up on Sutton Bank. Was pleased with a time of 15:33, we had good conditions for a change which helped! Had to skip club first Monday of July as I was drowning in a sea of paperwork, so I sat down and got on with that. No training over the weekend as we had Paul...

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A Step On The Path: January 2015

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A Step On The Path. Tuesday, 6 January 2015. New Years Day - Hardmoors 30 Ultramarathon. I was going to title this blog something along the lines of "I'm never tapering again" having spent the last week climbing the walls, but it was quite novel and refreshing to set off in a race without lead legs! No traces of fatigue from speed work or hills in them. As I say, my legs felt good and I ran with Tim (Mr Chia Charge himself! Once on the cliff tops, I began shuffling on again. My knees were very sore, ...

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A Step On The Path: April 2014

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A Step On The Path. Monday, 28 April 2014. Easter Monday and a bonus day off together so Paul and I headed to the nearby village of Hawnby for a nice sunny 8 mile-ish walk. The route was fairly easy to follow and might make a good running route for the future. For once though, it wasn't pleasantly uneventful! Tammy and I got 'attacked' by a ewe who took offence to us getting too close, Tammy got trampled and I got a horn in the leg, ouch! Wednesday was club training, Peter put us through our paces once m...

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A Step On The Path: A Mixed Bag in Edale.

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A Step On The Path. Sunday, 3 May 2015. A Mixed Bag in Edale. Last weekend saw my step-mum's 70th birthday, so we all piled in to the Viceroy Indian restaurant. In Duffield for a slap up meal. It's a very posh place, the waiters in traditional costume and lovely food. My curry was a coconut one, but still quite spicy. I also tried panneer for the first time and wasn't disappointed. It was nice enough still to sit outside at the Ramblers Inn. Various people in the pub and the weather forecast at the visit...

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A Step On The Path: October 2014

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A Step On The Path. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. Very quick, but long over due catch up! Can't believe I haven't posted since August, tut tut. So, what has been happening? Not a lot I suppose. In between the normal club sessions and Thursday night forest runs -. Gribdale Gallop Fell Race. A tough course, managed to go wrong on the route, but not by much. Took it steady as still have the marathon in my poor legs. Paid for it with a crap overall time. Seem to be getting slower at the moment, not good at all.

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A Step On The Path: So, what next?

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A Step On The Path. Friday, 27 March 2015. So, what next? Had a little time to reflect on the Hardmoors last week as I have been poorly with a cold, got the timing just right on that one! The HM55 was my A-race for this year so I feel like I can relax a little. I have a whole summer of shorter races to look forward to in the form of the Harrogate League and the Esk Valley summer series. So, how did the race go? At the time it hurt like hell and I mustn't forget that! But I think we knew that already.

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A Step On The Path: November 2014

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A Step On The Path. Tuesday, 25 November 2014. Our home for the weekend- the Bridge Hotel. Sarah and I arrived at the B ridge Hotel. Shortly before dusk on Friday. After two days of sitting on my bum on trains and in conferences, I was ready for some exercise! We'd just missed the scheduled evening run round the Lake, so we took ourselves for a little wander around the shore. We didn't go far as it was soon dark and we needed to get showered etc before dinner. For breakfast I sat with John. Nicky J, Caro...

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A Step On The Path: August 2014

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A Step On The Path. Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Isn't that the normal thing to do after a marathon? Monday I went to club, drove down instead of running! Tough circuits, but my legs didn't want to know for the running portion, so it was just a steady jog. Wednesday was Rolling Relays organised by a couple of guys from club. Oh dear. I was put into Coach Rob's team as the middle runner. The event had gone quite well, and we all had good runs. Thursday saw Hilary and I dragging Rob L up the big climbs in Kilbu...

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A Step On The Path: June 2014

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A Step On The Path. Monday, 30 June 2014. 2 Races and a Social Run! I've been busy since I last updated! Race #1 - Hardmoors Rosedale Half Marathon, 15th June. I really like the Hardmoors events, lovely routes based around the Cleveland Way and the North Yorkshire Moors. Always well organised and attended by some lovely people, some of who have become friends. Our run started at the allotted time and the tame village sheep ran with us up the main street! The route started by going through rolling, green ...