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Keeping on running

March 26, 2013March 27, 2013 BritMumInNZ 6 Comments Inspiration Weekly, Sarah

This past fortnight I’ve been running and kept on running. I don’t know where this sudden urge to run has come from, but it feels great (and I’m just hoping the clocks going back, on the first Sunday of April, along with autumnal weather to come, doesn’t dampen my enthusiasm!). In the past fifteen days […]

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Running on Inspiration

March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Inspiration Weekly, Sarah

There’s so many inspiring people in this world. Many of those people don’t have ‘fame or fortune’ in the conventional sense – but they are guaranteed to be famous with their friends and rich in ways that money cannot bring. They are people who through their own actions make the world a better place for […]

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Excuses no more! The running bug has hit!

March 3, 2013 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Learning & growing, Sarah

For years I shirked my health and partied hard after work, then I had children and put them first – keeping active and fairly fit, but still not prioritising my health. Finally, this year, I am listening to friends and family and making this time, right now, the time I take back my health and […]

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Photo A Day MAY | Something I wore today…

May 3, 2012 BritMumInNZ 8 Comments photography, Sarah

I LOVE Thursdays – especially this Thursday. Hubbie sometimes comes home early (4pm), as he has a tennis session at the court adjacent to Charlotte’s school. Most weeks he has to get his head back down to the grind stone for a few hours in the home office, but today I was buzzing to try […]

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Running with Passion

March 10, 2011March 10, 2011 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Alice, Charlotte, Sophie

Memories of school day athletics for many are ones best left in the recess of the brain.  But for our local school I think there will be quite a few happy memories stored away. The weather was perfect and the children came onto the field with a spring of excitement.  They’ve been practicing their cross […]

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Been a long time since running

December 10, 2010December 10, 2010 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Random Musings, Sarah

A few months ago I went from being tired, but calm and mellow, to wired and tense in a matter of weeks.  I started running to expel the build up of tension.  It felt amazing to be running again after being pregnant and then with a newborn.  I felt so free, so alive, so energised. […]

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