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It appears that once again I have failed to keep up a picture a day blog for a year, I mean how hard can it be? clearly I have no discipline.Didnt even make it to 6 months this time *tsk*
I have decided to give myself one more chance, but this time start on my birthday, which is tomorrow.
Not sure what difference this will make, probably none but lets see. Bear with me.
So as to start with a clean slate I have begun another blog page.
with an appropriate title. fingers crossed I make it this time.....:-)

So follow me....
http://deniseday365thereturn.blogspot.co.uk/

Day 67 - next race please..

And so it goes on. A week after the Imber Ultra 33 mile I have my first real attempt at 'back to back' runs (eg, two long runs one after the other). Here's the number for the first, which I collected today, the Larmer 10 mile, which i will be the sweeper at.

Day 66 - a souvenir

Just got round to clearing my pack out from the weekend and found this spent bullet case I had picked up as a souvenir from Salisbury Plain (despite being told not to pick up anything shiny, I figured this was safe as it had already been fired!)

Day 65 - Recovery

So, following on from a large number of miles run, comes the demand from my body to ingest a rather large number of calories. These were a necessity of course :-)

Day 64 - what a mug!

...but not just any old mug. This was awarded instead of a finishers medal at the Imber Ultra 33 mile trail race around salisbury plain. You'd think wouldnt you that a plain would be flat but no. 

33 miles of mud, hills, more mud, rain, hail and gale force winds, means this mug is now a treasured possession!

Day 63 - Moors Valley parkrun

Hazel's first time at Moors Valley parkrun and she took 5 mins off her xmas day time at Poole, which she says she doesnt like. Enjoyed running it with her :-)

Day 62 - On Track

My tracker has arrived from Race Drone to test out on Sundays Imber Ultra. It's nice and compact. It looks very simple, an on/off button and an SOS button in case of emergency. I don't actually know if anything will happen if i press the SOS button but im not going to test it out! This should send my whereabouts to a web page where friends can see how well or badly Im doing on the day :-) I plan on hiring one for the 100k in May so I wanted to see how well they worked.

Day 61 - World Book Day

As its World Book Day today, no im not going to dress up as a character, but I am going to photograph my collection from my favourite authors, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

Day 60 - St David's Day

For St David's day, what else but a daffodil from my garden. This is a miniature version and for some reason the focus wouldnt go right!

Day 59 - Jack Frost

Looks like a strange planet doesnt it? in fact its the fern like fronds of Jack Frost over my car windscreen this morning.

Day 58 - Turned out nice again?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, The British Weather. Literally 5 minutes before this we were sheltering under a tree from the stinging hailstones. And then this....

Day 57 - give peas a chance...

mid run nutrition. Its as important for dogs as it is for people. Max & Daisy get a small bag of meat scraps for anything over a couple of hours. And peas, for some reason Daisy likes peas...

Day 56 - dog noses

Trying to get a picture of the dogs while out running today, but Daisy was too nosy and this is what i got so it will have to do. Who doesnt love a dog nose?

Day 55 - A-Tissue

Ugh! I never buy tissues usually, preferring to cope with a bit of loo roll if ever my nose needs blowing, but a sore nose after all this horrible snot meant that I needed to buy these today :-(

Day 54 - Ne'er cast a clout..

....Till May be out, says the old rhyme, but how many know it refers not to the month of May but to the May Blossom, otherwise known as Hawthorn.
Today down at the river I saw some blossoms just coming through, so hopefully its a sign of warmer weather :-)

Day 53 - Threshold or not Threshold that is the question

Trying to attempt a threshold run tonight but the lurgy had other ideas and I couldnt stay at that effort level for long. The first 9 min interval was close at HR 159 but I couldnt keep it up in the second one so just ended up doing the best i could. Seems im ok for a slow run but not anything with any effort in

Day 52 - the days are getting longer

Hurrah! another sign spring is here, we are actually starting an evening run in the daylight (just).

Day 51 - blurry

I had to go to a friends house on the way home today so my route from there to home took me across the twin sails bridge, which Im sure I havent been across in the dark before. It looks quite impressive all lit up. This was my attempt at the quickest photo in the world before anyone came up behind me! Not very good is it...

Day 50 - Social out and back

View from todays 3 hour run along the SWCP from Weymouth towards Lulworth, which includes Jenny, and Beverley who we met for the first time today. There were about 15 of us in all, meeting at Bowleaze cove and because we were all different speeds, it was decided that we would run for 90 mins then turn around and come back, hopefully all getting back at roughly the same time. It worked quite well as we all finished within about 10 mins of each other, no one had to hang about in the cold waiting, and we could all go for a coffee and cake together afterwards!

Day 49 - Spring has Sprung

Beautiful pic of some snowdrops today on a walk around the black hill in Bere Regis. Spring is definitely on its way :-)