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    indielee wrote a new blog post: The Big Dance   6 months ago · View

    For everyone in England the XC season is only just picking up speed, over here in the US of A we are nearing the climax (Barb Trap…Lorna Russell).  On Monday the NCAA Nationals are being run in Terre Haute, Indiana.  Terre Haute is an interesting place boasting many quirky features, my favourite of which is [...]

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      Nick · 5 months, 4 weeks ago

      Good luck with the racing and knitting Indie. I am sure you will have a great one. Re the Knitting – thankfully our winters are long!! X

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Time to rock and roll…   7 months, 3 weeks ago · View

    Thursday evening was better than Christmas morning.  I was busy sulking my way through a core routine because I thought I wasn’t going to be cleared to race by the NCAA.  A long process to acquire me another year of eligibility was dragging out past the 4 month mark and we still had no answer [...]

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      Nick · 7 months, 3 weeks ago

      Loving those 2 hour runs Indie………….Lets work on that Lorna Russell. Keep up the good work and well done with the XC opener for this season. A wonderful start!

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Summer   9 months, 1 week ago · View

    Before I left Iowa for the summer Lorna Russell came over to stay with me for a couple of weeks post exams.  The sun shined constantly (well nearly…) and we enjoyed a solid couple of weeks training – although she did grumble a little when I suggested the second run of the day.  We menaced [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Testing times   1 year ago · View

    Occasionally something hits you from left field that you can’t do anything about.  After running a 5km PB at the end of March and another solid race (but no where near what I was hoping for) at Mount Sac I knuckled down to a couple of weeks of hard training before focusing on some 1500m [...]

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      Nick · 1 year ago

      hi Indi, thanks for sharing this tale and I know we have spoken lots privately. You have been a total star and we all wish you a mega speedy recovery. What a nightmare!! Just goes to show the value of a good blood test when there is a problem or you are feeling constantly tired. More PBS on the way soon I am sure………….hugs from us all.

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Chillin’ out in San Fran.   1 year, 1 month ago · View

    When you think of California words like sunshine and warmth come to mind, pretty far down the list is the curse word also known as RAIN!  We left Iowa in sunshine on Wednesday morning and touched down in San Francisco in the dark and rain.  Definitely not what we were hoping for!  I didn’t race [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: The Driving Test!   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    It is finally spring break – a week off university classes and from today (Wednesday) until Monday afternoon we do not have to meet for training as a team, so we can do our runs when we like – allowing a little more flexibility.  The weather has perked up considerably and is due to hit [...]

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    indielee posted on the forum topic All the gear, the right idea in the group Avatarrunningwithus:   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    Nick – I can second what you are saying. The Kenyan girls on our team here will go out in a full warmup suit and a thick fleece to do their runs on a fairly mild day, and can run painfully slow sometimes. Most of the team get irritated by running so slowly, but I [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Big 12 Indoors…   1 year, 2 months ago · View

    Over the weekend Iowa State competed at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska – this is the most important meet of the indoor season for the university.  We race for points against 11 other teams in our ‘Conference’.  I was down to run the individual mile, the mile leg of the DMR (Distance [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: I spy…   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    A couple of years ago I had ‘issues’ doing press ups.  I could not do one to save my life, so Nick set me the challenge of being able to do 20 continuously in 3 months from that moment.  I’m not one to shy away from a challenge – the ’100 press ups’ app was [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: SNOW DAY…finally!!   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    If I were at university in England everyday since the second week in January would have been a snow day…but it took a blizzard to shut down Iowa State this week.  Apparently it is a very rare occurrence and so when I got an email at 11pm last night telling me classes were cancelled until [...]

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    indielee wrote a new blog post: Frozen Eyelashes…   1 year, 3 months ago · View

    I was a little blase about how cold it could get during the winter in Iowa.  Everyone on the team would describe how they have to run in 5-6 layers, a pair of gloves with mittens over the top and even that is not enough.  ’Sure’ I thought, thinking it was mild exaggeration. It wasn’t. [...]