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Week 8 - Regroup Week

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So unfortunately my weeks are quite busy that I write my blogs on the train into work on the notepad app thing on my phone, but don’t get a moment to sit down and edit them until the weekend. So I’m going to give them a subheading of the actual date I wrote them so they make a bit more sense.   Wednesday 25 th March 2015: First step of regrouping in week 8 is to go back to your goals that you set in preseason, which you also tweaked in week 4. I'm embarrassed to say I didn't do either. I didn't set appropriate goals in preseason. I originally set out to run a half marathon and then realised it was too tight a time frame for my existing injuries that were quite apparent after my 10km run. From that point on I decided to just follow the beginners program to rebuild my strength gradually. I didn't rewrite my goals in preseason or week 4 like I should of. I just kind of said in my head that that's what I'd do. Did you think I followed through? Of c

Another big gap

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I'm not going to do the usual big "O-M-G I haven't posted in ages. I can't believe. I'm so sorry readers blah blah blah blah blah". It has been ages. I'm back to my usual ways. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. And so on and so on. And then I came across a blogger doing many many rounds of 12wbt like myself and on the stop start band wagon: http://cocogirlbutter.blogspot.com.au And she has achieved some great things. And then I realised - it's ok. It's ok to stop & start as long as you are starting again. And the stopping isn't final. I moved to London 13 months ago.    I wish I could be all fancy and have done this blog right on the 12 month mark, but life is full of imperfections. We just have to deal with them. Those 13 months - boy have they been tough: Moving to the other side of the world - oh please. "Piece of cake" I told myself. I was so bored with my current city that I desperately needed a dramatic change