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Go running, just because you can…

21st March 2010 by Helena 5 Comments  

I am still incapacitated. Not completely of course, and nowhere near truly serious, but it feels bad. I am longing to exercise; to run, so stretch, to swim, to move. From being able to put my hands flat on the floor with my legs straight, I can now only just get to me knees. Horrible. Months and months of improving my flexibility just gone.

A friend of mine, a yoga teacher called Anna, once said that if ever she doesn’t feel like exercising she thinks to herself ‘how lucky I am to be able to exercise’.

When this back pain passes I shall look at a treadmill with anticipation and joy, and not think ‘how soon can I get away from you’ the minute I get on it. I will go into each yoga class wishing it would last forever and I will embark on 50 lunges with the enthusiasm of a woman walking into a La Perla 60 per cent off sale.

When the back pain passes that is……

Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2010


Filed Under: Life, Sport Tagged With: because, running

5 thoughts on Go running, just because you can...

  • Catherine says:
    22nd March 2010 at 12:37 am

    You are so right, it is too easy to have hundreds of excuses not to exercise and take the ability completely for granted. Thank you for the wake-up call.
    I hope you feel better soon Helena, that sounds horribly painful.

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  • mimi says:
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    Oh, not you too, Helena.
    I’ve had back pain for the past week, and each time I get it (which thankfully is only once every year or so) I tell myself “I will appreciate my good back when this is over”…but I always forget.
    I like your take on back pain and exercise- never thought of it like that.

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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