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Lexi & Jones Goes Live!
Sweat, tears, swimming and cocktails … all have helped us through preparing this exciting new project, the Lexi & Jones Swim, Run and Write blog! Aimed at women who want to lead a healthy lifestyle...
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A Taper Too Far!
The link to my latest blog post can be found here. It started off being about the perhaps too relaxed pace of my taper into this Sunday’s Royal Parks Half Marathon and then rambled off in other...
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DOMS and Trains!
With only three days to go before my Royal Parks Half Marathon, here’s a little piece I wrote about my last minute panics. And neither of them are actually to do with running the 13.1 miles! Hilary...
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Royal Parks Half Marathon – The Runner’s View
Following all the hype, if you’d like to read my account of yesterday’s run, you can find the link to my blog post here.
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Royal Parks Half Marathon – The Spectator’s View
There was a chill on the breeze, mud underfoot and the overwhelming stench of menthol vapour rub. Everywhere I looked I was confronted by spandex encrusted crotches, quivering in the cool, early...
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My 50th parkrun!
This weekend I completed my 50th parkrun and my 49th at Shorne Woods. I was asked to contribute some words to the week’s Run Report and rather than reinvent the wheel, here are some words wot I wrote!...
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Gut Feeling
Hugh Laurie as House: great doctor for a TV series but not what you want in real life… by Lexi Welch Back in April this year, as my husband was recovering from the first of the 3 operations he was to...
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Tears But No Tantrums!
Mother and Son! By Hilary Jones This morning Lexi and I took part in Gravesend junior parkrun’s test event. Me volunteering. Lexi and her son, William, taking part. The link to my blog post about the...
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Tricked by Treats
by Lexi Welch It’s nearly Halloween and the shops are full of scary sweets, pumpkin donuts, chocolate spiders and marshmallow monsters. Soon it will be Bonfire Night, with its cheese loaded baked...
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The Trolls come out for Halloween
By Lexi Welch It’s a red letter day! Despite being fairly new, not all that social media minded and with only a handful of followers (and lovely each of you are) Lexi & Jones has been trolled on...
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November
Jones proving that you can have fun and get fit outside, whatever the weather by Lexi Welch The theme of this month’s Lexi & Jones is how to keep going with your fitness during the colder weather...
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Give it a try: Ballet Jam – finding my inner ballerina
The Lexi & Jones ballerina montage – well no-one else was going to do it for us! Like many of us I went to ballet class as a little girl and was always sorely disappointed by how much hard work and...
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Not on the Party Train?
By Lexi Welch FOMO (fear of missing out) is an anxiety condition that has become increasingly recognised as a result of social media. But the other day I re-watched Stardust Memories, a Woody Allen...
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Soup – A Little Bowl of Heaven
Pea and Watercress Soup By Hilary Jones When someone mentions soup, many different images may appear in your head; the bowl of soup your mother gave you when you were feeling ill; the bowl of soup...
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Hibernate or Hibernot?
Jones proving that all you need to see you through a cold winter run is a pair of pink thermal gloves. by Hilary Jones It seems bizarre to be talking about exercising outdoors in the winter on a day...
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Burlexercise – Finding My Inner Showgirl!
By Hilary Jones At the beginning of October I ventured up to London and across town to Fulham in search of my inner showgirl! I’m not quite sure how this happened because I’m not exactly an extrovert....
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This Week I Ran A Marathon!
Launching myself into the unknown! By Hilary Jones This week I managed one of my best running week’s ever in distance terms and it didn’t even involve an organised run! Here’s the link to my blog post...
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A Bit of Nostalgia – A Day By the Seaside
By Hilary Jones This week I visited Lexi during her brief sojourn down at Camber Sands. Here is the link to my need to reminisce of times past and present!
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Freeze!
By Lexi Welch After our swimming adventures at Camber Sands (described here by Jones) I returned home to find an article in this month’s Red magazine which supported the sneaking suspicion I’ve had...
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Time To Bring My Swimming Indoors
By Hilary Jones So the time has come for Lexi to continue her open water swimming sessions sans me! And here’s the link to my excuses for being a wimp!
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