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Juneathon Status = Approved (officially this time)

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I never go to the gym in the afternoon, unless it’s on my way back from uni but today I had some work to do for uni (yes, even though the year is over but my tutor is putting together a collection of our work and I needed to edit mine) and so I thought I would go to the gym after lunch and I was all motivated and everything and even had an early lunch so it had time to go down and stuff and packed my gym bag all ready for me, but then WHAT THE FUCK? it started seriously tipping it down and hasn’t stopped since and so I decided to go on the rowing machine here instead and so that’s what I did and so at least I haven’t just sat here all day watching Party Poker TV (not that I usually do, I’m not really into gambling, except for the quiz machine in the pub that I keep winning on but quizzes aren’t gambling, are they?)

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Stats
Gyms gone to: 0
Rowing machines went on: 1
Gambling done: zero
Music
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Cardiacs
PJ Harvey

Pebbles and headless pigeons

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I got dragged out to the beach today. Never mind that I had a hangover and it was freezing and raining out, or that I wasn’t even dressed and had gone back to bed, apparently I had no choice in the matter and so to the beach we went.

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There was a plaque dedicated to a man who got a gold medal for WALKING 50km in the Olympics. A gold medal for walking? Flipping heck. I can walk, I don’t expect to be given a gold medal for it though. Lazy sod.

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Despite it being freezing and raining, because I was at the beach, I had to have an ice cream. A White Magnum to be precise.

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And just like me having my obligatory ice cream at the beach despite the weather, there was the obligatory family sitting on a rug having a picnic, determined to have fun no matter how minging the weather is.

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I did pick up some pretty pebbles though.

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And saw a headless pigeon.

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Stats
Beaches: 1
Lazy sods getting gold medals for walking at the Olympics: 1
White Magnums: 1
Families determined to have fun on the beach: 1
Pretty pebbles: 5
Headless pigeons: 1

Steveathon

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I don’t know how it started but I ended up on Twitter talking to Cassie and decided that for yesterday’s Juneathon, I would go into town and take photos of fit men. Unfortunately, I forgot that I live in Ashford and there aren’t any fit men so after a couple of fruitless hours wandering about, I decided that I would take photos of men called Steve instead, because most men are called Steve, aren’t they? And I found lots of Steves – I even found a Sven too. Cool.

If you’re my friend on Facebook, you can see the photos there. Otherwise, you’ll just have to imagine what the Steves looked like.

I’ll post the photos of the nice cars though. I decided I wanted to marry the owner of the red one.

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Stats
Pretty cars: some
Steves: lots

A ride to see a puppy

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I was FORCED out on my bike today. I didn’t want to go out, I wanted to stay in but I was persuaded by the thought that the puppy might be in the farm shop and as Shaun wouldn’t phone them for me to check, I had to go and find out for myself.

And the puppy was there, yay. It’s a cute little thing. It’s going to stay little, too, as it’s a Jack Russell/Chihuahua cross.

I didn’t get a photo of the puppy as I didn’t have my camera or phone with me but after I’d been to the farm shop I went home and got my camera as I saw that a close near me was having a Jubilee party with a bouncy castle and everything.

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And the flats next door were looking patriotic too.

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And I saw some nice flowers.

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Stats
Distance: 3.8 miles
Time: 33:31 (forgot to turn my Garmin off when I was in the shop)
Puppies: 1
Bouncy castles: 1
Flats covered in bunting: 1
Nice flowers: 2

I walked to the pub, it counts–honest

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Dudes, I walked to the pub. I asked on Twitter if it would count and everyone said YES and no one said no, so, HA! I Garmined my walk to the pub.

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If it makes you feel any better, it was raining when we left the pub and we had to stand in the road for AGES getting wet while I waited for my Garmin to get a signal.

Meh.

Oh, and I can’t remember who said yes, walking to the pub counts but only if you do a press-up on the bar when you get there, but I did do a press-up. I have photographic evidence and everything.

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Stats

Distance: 0.01 miles
Time: 11 seconds
Pubs: 1
Press-ups: 1
Pubs stood outside in the rain trying to get a signal: 1
Juneathons done 2/2

Walking down the stairs counts, honest

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I knew I was going to fuck up the first day of Juneathon. I’ve been in uni all week AND the bastards made us go in for 10am every day (it was originally 9am but we were all like ‘HUH?’) and yesterday was our second last official day of the first year.

I’M NO LONGER A FIRST YEAR STUDENT! I want to cry. I don’t want to be a second year. I want to stay being the baby of the uni (albeit the second oldest student there).

Anyway, we had all planned to go to lunch after the last class and then I said to my fellow student, ‘fancy a pint’? and, um, a pint led to about four more and then I realised that, shit, I hadn’t Juneathoned, and so when I came back with some drinks and got moaned at for forgetting the straws (I’m sorry, I forgot we’re twelve years old and need straws with our drinks), I decided to go back downstairs and get the straws and this would count as Juneathon.

Yeah, Juneathon status = APPROVED.

After having about twenty-three ‘just one more’ drinks in the pub, I wobbled back to Ashford and because Shaun was out in Wingham or Wickham or something like that and I wanted people to drunkenly ramble on to, I nipped into the pub opposite the house to see if anyone I knew was in there and when I got near the pub it was REALLY LOUD and I thought yay and inside were lots of people in fancy dress, including this rather fine young man wearing some green paint and not much else.

Even the landlord was happy.

And I met the man who was only wearing some shorts and green paint’s mum.

I’m assuming walking back to the pub later counts for today’s Juneathon?

Stats
Summer schools: 1
End of first years at uni: 1
Lunches: 1
’Just one more’ drinks: about twenty-three
Pubs nipped into on the way home: 1
Men wearing green paint and not much else: 1
Happy landlords: 1
Men with wigs and tits: 1

Juneathon starts tomorrow!

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Yes, Juneathon is here again. Hurrah. BUT WHERE IS EVERYBODY? There are about 80 fewer people than there have been for the last couple of years – are you all slacking? Have you forgotten what month it is tomorrow?

Fear not, there’s still time to sign up.

Off you go then, I’m going to give you a direct link to the entry form and everything so you can bypass that scruffy bunch on the home page.

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You do know there’s a picnic at the end for everyone? AND we go to the pub after?

I’ll think of some more incentives later.

Stats
Juneathon participants so far: 159
Slackers: about 80
Picnics as incentives: 1
Pubs as incentives: 1
Incentives I’ll think of later: FLIPPING THOUSANDS OF THEM

Smiley faces and white dog poo

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I went for a five mile walk yesterday. I usually hate walking for more than, say, a mile, but I wanted to investigate the next bit of the Greensand Way and I can only run about a mile at the mo.

When I got to what I thought was the next bit of the Greensand Way though, the sign said ‘bridleway’ and not ‘footpath’ and so it confused me and I didn’t want to walk up there just to turn round and walk back if it didn’t go anywhere especially as there was a man in a hi-vis vest on the corner of the gypsy house and I didn’t want him to think I was a weirdo going into fields for two minutes then coming back out of them so I carried on up the road until I saw a sign that said ‘footpath’ and investigated up there but the path only went about two feet parallel to the road and then back on to the road and so I went back the way I came and wanted to go up where it said bridleway but the hi-vis vest man was still there and he probably already thought I was a weirdo for walking up the road and back and so I went into the woods opposite instead and saw this

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and then walked back along the roads instead of the fields and I saw a smiley face on a door

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and even more exciting than the smiley face on the door was the 70s style white dog poo. Yay.

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Slightly less exciting than the smiley face on the door and the 70s style white dog poo was this snail.

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Next time, I won’t worry about people thinking I’m a weirdo and I will investigate the bridleway.

Stats (walking)

Distance: 5.11 miles
Time: 1:33:34
Pace: 18:18
Calories: 373
Bridleways: 1
Bridleways I walked up: 0
Men in hi-vis vests: 1
Smiley faces on doors: 1
White dog poos: 1
Snails: 1

Another day, another new pair of shoes

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When Shaun came home last night, I told him I’d been out running and because I’d been out running I needed some new running shoes because mine were a year old. He said I couldn’t have new shoes because a) yes, they may be a year old; but b) I’d only worn them once.

I decided on c) I wanted new shoes and I was going to get some anyway and so he said ok, I want some new shoes too, shall we go now? And so we drove 20 miles to the nearest Sweatshop and a man with nice legs gave me the latest Asics Cumulus but I didn’t really like them and so he brought me out some Asics Nimbus 13 to try on and said they were a bit more expensive and I had a flashback to 2007 when I bought my second ever pair of running shoes which were Asics Gel Nimbus VIII which were £100 but were the comfiest shoes ever and I tried on the Nimbus and they were as comfy as a cloud and I went on the treadmill and the man said I was a perfectly neutral runner and didn’t have the slightest hint of over-pronation and so these shoes were right for me and I said to him you’re going to tell me they’re £100 aren’t you? And he said um, they’re a bit more than £100 and so I tried on the other shoes he brought me which were Adidas and Nike but I didn’t like them and so I said ok, I’ll buy the expensive ones, how much are they? And he said £120 and I thought eek and I said I’ve got a 20% off voucher, can I use that? And he said yes and so I bought these very pretty but very expensive Asics Nimbus 13s.

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And then the man brought Shaun some shoes to try on and he bought a pair of Mizunos and then told everyone on Facebook he’d bought a pair of Brooks until fairweatherrunner asked him which Brooks he’d bought and so to stop me outing him for getting the  brand wrong he confessed they weren’t actually Brooks and then this morning LOOK WHAT THE POSTMAN DELIVERED TO ME!

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These are the most beautiful running shoes I’ve ever seen and they are Nike Free 3s. They’re very light and I probably won’t wear them running but I will wear them down the gym and review them then.

Anyway, although I ran yesterday, because I am a girl, I wanted to try out my new shoes and so I went for a short run. All good Juneathon preparation, eh?

And, talking of Juneathon – if you haven’t signed up yet, get on with it, you slackers.

Under Armour Bra and Cold Black T-Shirt

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The Under Armour Cold Black T-shirt blurb says ‘black out the sun’ so I was going to wait until it was sunny to try it out but the first time in the last month I’ve done any exercise was in the gym and we don’t get much sun in there but today I was up nice and early and decided to go for a run and try out the t-shirt and the Under Armour Bra.

The Armour Bra has an appropriate name as it’s a sturdy piece of kit. Despite it’s sturdiness, it’s a good-looking bra and if you were one of those gym bunnies that like to prance around the gym in your bra then you’d be proud to show this one off.

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Still, I’m not a gym bunny who prances around the gym in my bra and it got hidden under the Cold Black t-shirt.

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I’m sorry Under Armour, I hate this t-shirt, it’s not for me at all. The neck is far too low cut (it didn’t even cover the top of the bra), scooped and baggy – I like a much closer fit in my t-shirts.

The feel of the t-shirt wasn’t right. It felt more like a smart casual top I’d wear in an office (if it didn’t have the logo and reflective strip on it), not like a running top at all.

The fit wasn’t right. I can’t describe how it wasn’t right – it just didn’t feel right.

What I did like though was the length, some running tops can be a bit short, this was just right.

As for the bra… Well, it may be pretty, but it chafed my shoulder and back to fuck and I’ve never had a sports bra chafe me before.

For a (far) more positive review of the t-shirt, visit fairweatherrunner’s blog – she loved it, runners come in all shapes and sizes, after all.

Shaun got a nice orange t-shirt from Under Armour, I’m going to steal that from him and wear that instead.

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