A little bit of everything this weekend – I ran the Bracknell Half Marathon, squeezed in a relaxing craft afternoon, and hit the road for a bike ride and a visit to Bracknell bike festival/ the bike shop!
Come along for the ride—running miles, creative moments, and cycling vibes all packed into one action-filled vlog 🚴♀️🏃♀️🎨
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hey guys welcome back to my channel it is a very wet and gloomy day here in Bratnull today so I thought I might go and check out the Bratnull half marathon route that actually happened just as I moved here but I was actually down in the New Forest so it’s not going to be a fast one today because you know I’m pretty tired one for another story as I’m sure I’ll cover it at some point but I want to do something today in the morning and then I’m actually heading to a craft afternoon today because obviously I’ve moved to a new area and I need to find some ways to go and meet some new people so obviously bike club run club great idea but I also love crafts so I thought why not and then tomorrow I’m going to head along to Braracknel Bikefest which is run by Trek in Brackar just to see what it’s all about and then somehow the weekend’s already over i’d got dressed in this top that I want to wear but not only is it very creased but I know this will chafe like a mother ducker if I wear it so off to find something else got my mini Harrios and I think I’m ready to hit the road oh and this adorable little bottle which is just perfect it fits in my pocket don’t even know where I got it from i got it free a few years ago got my Lucky Luca socks on with my trusty hawkers anyone else tie their shoes twice just to check that they’re tied properly you might not expect it but Brat is not as flat as you think so there is 600 ft of climbing in this half marathon and I’ve already had enough and I’m at the top of the first hill i’m actually doing it in reverse so that way big hill done first [Music] one thing that is quite interesting about Bracknull is how many underpasses there are so there’s so many busy roads and all of them have an underpass at every roundabout good to know I can get the bus home if I need to so what am I listening to while I’m running well Cade Media podcast for this week will get me through the first half and then we shall see i don’t know how far in I am cuz I don’t want to look though what’s really nice it all seems to be except from the busy roads at the start on foot paths what a great way to explore the new area i ended up running nearly right past my work cuz I’ve been to this pond a few times on my lunch break and one massive final climb before we go down into Brackar we are done and we are in Bracknull city center and I am off to Primark and then off to find some food i actually really really enjoyed that upset a man coming through the park because I decided to go through instead of letting him go through but I was running i don’t know either way I said sorry and thank you and the first thing that has hit me out of all of that is how good Bracken is for running paths walking paths cycling paths where you’re completely away from the traffic like most of that wasn’t on main roads so it’s pretty spectacular um what I love about walking through the city center and talking to a camera is the people that look at you and go “What is she But we’re okay with that so um I’ve got headphones on so I can pretend that no one can hear me yeah expectacular so pretty much the whole route was was off the roads and going under underpaths on paths and it be really lovely to do with like a family bike ride on those paths or just a really chill ride so yeah it was really great i came across this adorable market stall with all these little flower pot men and I almost bought one and I am now in Wokingham to go and do my crafty afternoon i’ve put my car some complete random place i have no idea where it is um on some weird side road somewhere because I got to the library and uh which is where it is and you have to pay to park and I was like I don’t think so which raises the question how far would you be prepared to walk to avoid paying for parking now I have been known to definitely walk 3 miles before this luckily is like 0.3 but uh yeah what about you [Music] good morning it is Sunday morning and the weather is much nicer today still a bit chilly might rain bit windy but the sun’s out so I am going to head out on the bike and see where I end up and I’m going to take you with [Music] me extremely windy wow i really don’t want to moan but that bike is still absolutely horrendous to ride so still got to get that sorted and it was very windy today but I actually weirdly enjoyed it once I like got the annoyance out of my head of the bike it was good but I’ll put a clip of the noise it makes in after this and you let me know if you think that’s normal and I am now rolling down into Braracknel to go and see what this Braracknel bike fest is all about however it does finish in like 2 and 1 half hours so I hope I haven’t missed it i’m also hoping there might be a bike mechanic down there honestly this creek is driving me nuts driving me [Music] looney smile Jack here we go here he goes off the top i really want to go at this bike is gone it is back at the bike hospital track basically um to see if they can get to the bottom of it i got a really clear video today so hopefully hopefully we might get somewhere and now I’m just walking home it’s an odd one isn’t it that complex of girl cycles 55 miles step count zero um so you end up feeling like you haven’t done anything even though you have actually done quite a lot but it was actually a really lovely ride this morning aside from the but it was so windy I almost couldn’t hear it you know what I mean um so yeah i don’t know i’m just going home be a Tesco and then chill out for the rest of the day thank you for watching i know this was a bit like all over the place but I hope you’ve enjoyed it if you’ve got this far i expect a lot of people haven’t and I’ll see you in the next one
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I think your little bottle is from Hammer Nutrition… you used to use it for your triathlons filled with gel (you see how much you taught me?). “I’m pretty tired”… she says, then off you go and run a half marathon, do some shopping, then a craft afternoon. Next day rest? Erm, no, a 55 mile bike ride, bike fest and walk home. Phew, I’m whacked just listening to you 🤣. I wouldn’t dare be sat on this settee right now if you were here! ❤️
PS I’m really glad you didn’t succumb to a flower pot man 😂😂😂