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And Sunday morning outings are back on the menu. Training for life at the moment and enjoying having the ability to 🥰

It's been a week since we ran, blisters are healed, legs are working again, the memories remain strong ❤️🇬🇧 Such an amazing day

We bloody did it.
Far more photos to come with time, but how special to have Chloe and Dakota there too 🥰 4 times they found us all!!

Nothing more to say.

Cheers to the team. Glad to be back x

Happy Easter Weekend 🐰 🍫

Today I went for a run.
It was hard, but I have explained it this way - it was hard because my body is trying to remember running, it doesn’t seem long on the calender, but it's amazing how quickly your legs forget what they are supposed to do, when they do next to absolute nothing for 6 - 8 weeks.
It was hard in the sense that I had to give them a stern talking to, no one ever died of sore legs - right? 😉
In January I went for a couple of runs and it was terrible, again, it was hard, but what I have explained as impossibly hard, even just a couple of kilometres and I was exhausted and my legs were screaming F off! And my heart rate was 📈 It was not normal for me, and honestly scary.
The storm had arrived.
March 1st I walked 1.6km in 35 minutes and nearly passed out afterwards, but even that was improvement on the days before. Swipe to see that huge Strava achievement 😉
On about March 8th we turned an obvious corner.
I can feel the difference between those weeks - things aren't impossibly hard anymore.
And may I say; Hyperthyroidism and Thyroiditis can continue off into the distance and never ever return !! I'll probably never know what infection what body was fighting, but it sure picked an ingenious 'illness' to make me sit the F down. And for that I strangely congratulate it 🤷🏼‍♀️

Today we wore old event tshirts to remind ourselves what we are capable of. With 5 weeks until 🇬🇧 my expectations (or wishful number) of kilometres change every week - in the right direction 😉
I don't know how I'll go, but I know my legs are getting used to walking properly again, albeit, every walk leaves me feeling like I run a half marathon daily - but with the last couple of months still very fresh in my mind - that feeling actually makes me feel relieved.
Relieved that I can finally walk further than to the kitchen without having to sit down.

We can do hard things, and then spend 10kms talking about them 💪

Happy International Women's Day 2026.
Call it what you like, karma, good luck, a fluke. What ever it is, I caught it all to be surrounded by so many strong women.
Behind every strong woman is another strong woman