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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Sep 30, 20234 min read
7. Ready, steady, go!
The build up to the event was not exactly smooth… who would have imagined? Being the stumbling staggerer that I am, I continued my diving...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Aug 25, 20233 min read
6. A coach? What’s that?
After my inelegant dive onto the stony Arum trail, I was more determined than ever to show myself that I could handle this trail...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Aug 12, 20233 min read
5. Rocky road dive: a quick little story
Early on in my staggering meanderings, I discovered Dirty Squirty. The Outeniqua trails have weird and wonderful names: Benji, Chernobyl,...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Aug 12, 20235 min read
4. Misbehaving…
They warned me. Don’t go alone… take someone with you… you’re looking for trouble. As a young girl in the 1960s, I was free to go into...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Aug 9, 20234 min read
3. Higher and higher... you can do this!
As I became more and more familiar with the enticing trails winding along the lower slopes of the mountains, I developed some ambitions…...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Aug 5, 20233 min read
2. Let's make this a thing!
Despite the huffing and puffing, the racing heart, the heavy legs, the desire to give up and the unattractive red, hot, sweaty face of an...
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Jane MacKenzie-Hoskyn
Jul 29, 20232 min read
1. I'll Start Tomorrow...
1. I'll Start Tomorrow... In November 2022, I decided that I had had enough! Enough of feeling guilty. Enough of feeling fat. Enough of...
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