It’s good to try something new now and again. So I attended my first football match this weekend. Leeds v Wolves at Elland Road (That’s the Leeds ground, to anyone as football-ignorant as me!). And it wasn’t quite as boring/scary/confusing as I’d expected it to be. Clearly, because I was there with my lucky shell, [...]
This week has been fraught. Busy, busy, busy in schools doing my data collection, interspersed with trying to prepare myself for my first presentation of said ‘data’ on Friday. All I saw were blank faces. Which was probably all they saw when they started asking me questions. Still, my supervisor said it was good so [...]
Don’t scoff a bag of Haribos 5 minutes before going for a run. Really, really not a good idea. How I even managed to persuade my selves to go running at the end of a 10.5 hour day of work that involved smiling for the little ones, going blind over Excel sheets and replying to [...]
It’s better to spend money on running than on take-aways. So the Leeds 10k was yesterday. Turns out, Leeds has hills. I am blaming those hills for what I consider to be a distinctly average time of 52 minutes and 22 seconds. Although I should perhaps also blame the curry we had on Friday night. [...]
Just because you can run a marathon, doesn’t mean you can run 10k. There’s optimism for you. But, really, all I could muster after work this evening was a measly 3.2 miles. And not a particular speedy 3.2 miles, at that. How I ever ran a marathon is beyond me. And yet my next ‘race’ [...]
Running a marathon hurts. Nobody told me that Edinburgh has a tropical climate. Consequently, I didn’t think to wear sunscreen. I now look like a tomato. I am chaffed in places I didn’t think it was possible to be chaffed. My legs are not really working. I am exhausted. But I am sooooooooooooooo happy because [...]
If you have a friend who happens to be running a marathon, be kind and sponsor her. I think this will be my last blog post before The Marathon. Let’s hope it is not my last ever blog post. Things are conspiring against me: I have a cough. The weather is forecast to be 21 [...]
Lately, I’ve been having far too much of a life to blog. It’s great. But I just felt I should check in anyway. It’s been a good week at work. Productive. Even got some ideas for what I think I might want to do with my career post-PhD. Involving robots. And Japan. Yeap. Running seems [...]
This weekend has been a good fannytastic one. Leeds got promoted. Which means I have one delighted boyfriend. Who I can now book a holiday with. Double bonus. And I managed my 20 mile run today. The remaining 6 miles are gonna have to take care of themselves. But I’m hopeful. I’m ridiculously tired. But [...]
Don’t go running after eating a 3-course lunch. I am too tired to blog coherently. Somehow, I have found myself on a committee involved in organising the 2011 BPS Conference. Which did mean I got a great lunch today. But then nearly threw up running afterwards and now am zombied. So the last week in [...]