Posted by admin on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Today myself and Orla went and got our pretend dog (it’s really her parent’s, but we borrow it at the weekend when we go for walks, a win-win for all concerned) Tara and headed up to Djouce mountain in Wicklow for a walk. We took a little bit longer than we should have to get [...]
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Posted by admin on January 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
74 Days in and not a lot to show except, as of today, some more doctors bills! So, the story so far. Went to doctor. Was sent for routine ECG to be safe before starting proper training. Something unusual showed up on first ECG, got sent for more tests. That’s the very summarised version of [...]
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Posted by admin on December 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
All the marathon training sites tell me that you should go and see your doctor before taking up heavy/serious exercise, particularly if you haven’t done exercise in a good while, so today I went to the doctor and she gave me some tips and pointers on how to go about starting training seriously. FYI my [...]
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