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Month: March 2015

Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival 2015!

Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival 2015!

It’s Ramsbottom Chocolate Festival this weekend.  In it’s 8th year it is certainly going to be much bigger this year than it has in the previous seven.  Increasing visitor numbers mean that the festival has undergone a reorganisation according to reports in the local media – exciting stuff! I’ve attended the festival for the last three years, and I love it.  The atmosphere is captivating; it’s fantastic to mingle with people who care about producing one of Britain’s favourite treats,…

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A post-feast PB

A post-feast PB

I’ve had a lazy couple of days.  I intended to go for a run yesterday but convinced myself otherwise during the course of the day.  Today I went out on impulse; snap decisions seem to be the way I work where fitness is concerned.  Perhaps my decision was also motivated by the guilt I felt following last night too. Last night I went out for tea with good friends to a local carvery.  The setup wasn’t conducive to sensible portion…

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It’s a Beautiful Day…

It’s a Beautiful Day…

Getting out the door seems so much easier when the sun is out.  I’m currently sitting in my room about to go for a run with the sun beaming through the window.  It’s cool but not cold, breezy not blustery.  Perfect running conditions. I find it so much easier to motivate myself when the weather is on my side, it’s one less mental hurdle to conquer before firing up the Garmin, donning my running shoes and heading for the road….

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Frustrations of a Garmin owner…

Frustrations of a Garmin owner…

Last night, I had to perform the rather bizarre Factory Reset on my Garmin Forerunner 310xt in a final attempt to rescue it from whatever demons have been possessing it in the last few months. My Garmin and I have been ‘on a break’ for a while, as modern relationship lingo would have it.  It hasn’t been switching on for the last month or so andbefore that it transferred plenty of 0 byte files on any occasion that I tried to transfer any…

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