Shopping, LWFitness4All and Monday evening MI H3 on Mersea Island
Was it something I said? Reports of thousands of visitors to my last post have shown up somewhere but are, sadly, greatly exaggerated. Nevertheless it has made me think about words and phrases that might lead to more interest than intended!
I am a great fan of Lululemon sports clothes as they are really well made and last for years. As a lover of both yoga and running their clothes perfectly cross both disciplines. Be warned though - they are horrendously expensive even if they will probably last you your entire lifetime. Here is part of their manifesto printed on their bags:
- Excessive shopping
- An Uphill distance training session
- Running (well almost), swimming (definitely not) and BBQ (of course)
- Memorable quotes of the evening
Excessive Shopping
This week I was lucky enough to visit the Lululemon showroom in Chelsea where my daughter and I were made very welcome and I was able to choose some gorgeous new running clothes.In my bag: running socks, underwunder cropped pants and matching energy bra and om racerback tank |
I am a great fan of Lululemon sports clothes as they are really well made and last for years. As a lover of both yoga and running their clothes perfectly cross both disciplines. Be warned though - they are horrendously expensive even if they will probably last you your entire lifetime. Here is part of their manifesto printed on their bags:
I definitely relate to the first message that stress is related to 99% of all illness |
I had planned and saved to treat myself after the Colchester Half Marathon. As I wasn't able to get one of the items I had wanted I continued to save each week and decided to get something if I completed the Round The Island Race and as a lover of Tiffany Blue this is what I chose:
Some new Asics and a Nike tee shirt |
An Uphill Distance Training Session
I went along on Thursday evening for my second outing with this, new to me, group at LWFitness4All and we worked on distance combined with loopbacks. As well as information about what we would be working on there was a link to this map:
It looked innocent enough I only glanced at it and thought the distance would be good for me |
Monday evening Mersea Island Hash House Harriers run/swim and BBQ
Hashers waiting for the start looking just as bewildered as they do when we are finally off |
It was to be a fairly short hash but actually turned out to be the usual five miles or thereabouts. The route took us along the back of the 'sugarplum' beach huts and off into Waldegraves caravan park. I'm not sure what the happy campers made of their quiet evening suddenly being invaded by a large group of runners yelling 'on one' at the top of their voices. Ah, the quiet of the countryside in summer!
Rows of pretty pastel coloured beach huts and some pretty colourful runners too |
We ran passed some fishermen at a quiet pool - still yelling at the top of our voices - all I can say in our defence is that we are just so full of enthusiasm. Then we ran along to a checkpoint where the 'Hare' said how wonderful it was that so many had turned up and he was going to leave us and had given a map to someone just in case.
Then we were off through some pretty difficult terrain and I must admit I thought we were being led the wrong way and started moaning that we must have been trespassing and the route was bound to have been taking us in another direction back to the sea wall.
You can see what I mean - it was virtually impossible to run and the surface was ploughed ground |
Be afraid, be very afraid! My childhood nightmare - the ground opening up and swallowing me. |
Help! |
Yep totally out of control and all over the road it must be a group of Hash House Harriers |
Time for some snaps |
The confessions of mass caterers I'll be able to tell if you drop my burger in the sand! |
Some were braver than others Becci getting some encouragement you can watch a video of her swimming adventures here |
How romantic is that - a pontoon just made for two er not three - queue Jaws music! |
The MIH3 had hired The Lions Beach Hut which was perfect |
The food was good - especially the vegetarian sausage rolls |
Oh the anticipation - and well worth it Sue's Prosecco was delicious |
The MI H3 are a great bunch and I love that we have walkers as well as runners. I think you can see they were having a relaxing time:
Cheers me dears! |
Sue with her wonderful 'Mary Poppins' enormous picnic basket filled with scrumptious treats and lashings of lemonade - oops slipping into Famous Five now! |
Memorable quotes of the evening
- "They gave me a joke book" (followed by some terrible examples)
- "Do you know Chris - he's a member of Colchester Harriers" - "What's his surname" - "Chris, oh I can't remember his last name - he lives in Tiptree" (with a population of over 7,000 and one of the contenders for the largest village in Essex)
- "We're definitely lost" (nope)
- "We're definitely going the wrong way" (um, no)
- "The farmer will let the cows out to get us in a minute" (arghhh!)
- "I saw that too" (not saying what that was about;-))
- "I won't lie, it is not warm" (about whether the sea was cold)
- "Olive anyone" (see below)
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