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Welcome to 2023

 Welcome to January, and welcome to the adventures of 2023! There is a lot going around about 'new year new me', and 'lets make this my year', but this year I'm just going to focus on doing what i do best, working hard, living life, taking on challenges and enjoying the journey! 




2023 starts with some plant care and getting back into the swing of the morning routine and kicking in the workouts. I did my first early morning run in a while and got out to enjoy the peace and the quiet before the bustle of the day, first day back at work fell on the Tuesday too and despite the busyness it felt good to get back into a pattern, not that i really spent a lot of the Christmas break not doing things. 



 The rest of the working week went by, and so did the evening and morning tasks, I started some focus on my study days a new task as I progress through 2023 and did some work on strength as well as ticking off the days of Red January. Roll around to the weekend and I took on my last run session for a few days as i get ready to get a new tattoo added to the collection. A 5k time trial with a twist, i set a playlist for a little less that my current 5k time and then headed out with a plan to beat the playlist, setting it so it doesn't shuffle, making it easier to track the songs and turning off the replay function so when it gets to the last song it stops gave me a good target to hit in order to complete the 5k before the end of the last song. I managed to hit the 5k mark by about 36 minutes, pretty good for a 38 minute playlist! 

The rest of the weekend plans are to get a new bit of ink, take down the last of the decorations, work on some baking and cooking and complete my first yoga session as well  as some other odd bits. 

I have made some plans for badges and next weekend we are taking on an exciting challenge of our first race of the year! 

So I'm going to wrap it up there and check in next weekend, so....

thanks for reading, 
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love from 
Jessie
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