2012: Make It Count

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I’m going to get all clichey in this post. I don’t mean too and yes yes a while ago I was on the “bored of the olympics” bandwagon and I still am. However, I have realised this year is a whole new year for sport in my life. I’ve now run two 10km races and clocked up over 200km in training runs, as well as all of the torturous spin, body pump and body balance classes. Oh yes and how could I forget, at least 100km of hiking in the beautiful British countryside!

Tags: #MakeItCount, 2012, Great Manchester Run, Hiking, London 2012, Make It Count, Manchester, Manchester 10k, Manchester City, Personal, Photos, Running

An Update…

Where do I begin? It’s been a while since I’ve been here or even thought about my blog. Partially because I’ve not wanted to write, but mainly because I’ve been trying to get to grips with the PhD. I’m nearing the stage where I have to write up my first year and have had many progress meetings and what not, the main outcomes of these has led to me having a to do list longer than the amount of time I have available to finish everything. As you can guess I’ve been quite stressed and am pretty much convinced I will not pass my viva so I’ve been putting a lot of work in to everything. The good thing about this, possibly, is that I’m far more comfortable with my PhD now and I even managed to scoop a prize for a talk I gave about my project at a conference last week!

Anyway enough with this PhD gubbins, I thought I should update you all with what I’ve been up to aside from the sheer volume of uni work I’ve been drowning in… Beware, I’ve been busy, there are many pictures to follow!

Tags: Hiking, Hobbies, Life, Personal, PhD, Photography, Photos, Running, University

My Week #6

Hello peeps! I am back from my extended vacation with Mummy and Daddy Pond back down south. Whilst away I managed to do very little… Therefore I’m now stupidly behind with work and have a to do list as tall as the Empire State building. I’m also 2 stone heavier from all the chocolate I have consumed!

Here are a few pictures from my week at home….

Tags: Chocolate, Easter, iPad, Life, Personal, Relaxing, Vacation

Home For Easter

Happy Easter peeps!

I’m at home in Worcester with Mummy, Daddy and Little Pond. Normal blogging shall resume next week

Hope you have a good weekend!

Tags: Easter, Life, Personal

A Very Pretty Day in Bath

Sorry for putting this post out earlier with nothing in it… I was going to write it yesterday but caught up with going home for Easter.

So, while I was in Bristol we headed to Bath for a day. As it’s only 10 minutes away on the train it seemed like a perfect plan! We went to the Thermae Bath Spa, for an amazing lunch and went for a wander around the beautiful city. I have many photos!

Tags: Bath, Bath spa, Cary Grant, Jane Austin Experience, Life, Personal, Photos, Pultney bridge, Reunion, The crescent

Bristolian Adventures

At the weekend I journeyed to Bristol for a weekend catching up with old friends for one of their birthdays.

It was a lovely weekend, we managed to make the most of the good weather and the chance to catch up after a good 2/3 years since a few of us last saw each other and 5 years since we last saw each other all together!!!!

Tags: Bristol, Cary Grant, City break, Life, Magic bar, Old friends, Personal, Street art

Science Sunday #2

With no hiking for a few weeks, I’ve had to entertain myself in Manchester! I spent last weekend in the sun- read about that here and thankfully a visit from my parents on Mothering Sunday means I haven’t missed the mountains too much!

Tags: Life, Manchester, Mothering Sunday, Personal, Science, Science museum, Science Sunday, Sunday Fun, Taking Back Sunday

A New Challenge

This week I’ve started training properly again… Mainly because I decided that I enjoyed the pain of my last 10k so much that I’d apply for another. So on 20th May I’ll be running the Great Manchester 10k…

Tags: 10K, Manchester 10k, PB, Running, Summer running

A Weekend in Manchester

This weekend I spent a lot of my time catching up with friends I’d not seen in a while and spending time in the sunshine (making up for my weekdays being stuck in the office at work).

On Saturday I spent a day in the park enjoying the sunshine with Jess and Lizzy. Then on Sunday we had a BBQ at Lizzy’s place in the afternoon.

Tags: BBQ, Chorlton, Daffodils, Instagram, Life, Longford Park, Manchester, Personal, Weekend

Where Has MissPond Been?! #2

Hey guys! Sorry I’ve been hiding from you again.  I find myself wanting to use the usual excuses to explain my absence. However, it’s mainly just been due to a lack of blogging mojo at the moment (as well as being as busy as ever). Let me catch you up with a few of my goings on and I promise some more blogs this week

Tags: Fastbleep, Fastforward Health, Hiking Club, Life, Personal