I get to spend some time with my cousin and her fam before the gruelling workshop schedule kicks in. |
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It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions. |
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In a gruelling day of work, they discovered 40 tyres, half-a-dozen shopping trolleys and enough children's toys to stock a market stall. |
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However, it was a triumphant night for Rovers, despite the rain which made for gruelling conditions at Villa Park. |
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Since then his life couldn't have been any more bumpy or gruelling had he set off down a mogul run on a tea tray. |
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I would never have to attend a gruelling bums and tums ' workout ever again. |
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With nothing but miles of open, bleak desert ahead of her, she battled mind over matter to reach the end of a gruelling 160 km trip. |
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I had never studied international law before the gruelling four months of my life that the moot eventually consumed. |
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I felt really mopey this morning after a particularly gruelling session with my advice guidance tutor. |
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In addition to the reduced financial benefits, players exist in one of the most gruelling, physically uncompromising leagues. |
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I can multitask and perform the gruelling art of time management to perfection. |
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Beckett's enthusiasm is undimmed by the gruelling schedule his two jobs enforce. |
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As the hot water sluiced into the sunken tub, easing her aches and pains, she began to think about the gruelling casting. |
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Tony swapped his suit for camouflage when he tackled a gruelling Army challenge. |
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Initially, it was hoped the family would jet off to the States this summer but the gruelling chemotherapy sessions have put plans on ice. |
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They can be glossed over in a speech, but not so in America's gruelling tradition of head-to-head TV debates. |
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It involves academic study as well as a gruelling daily round of training and matches across the States. |
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Clearly, the whole idea was to bring a refreshing change from the gruelling schedule at camp. |
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David endured gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment as well as major surgery. |
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He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres. |
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There will inevitably continue to be problems that arise from living in close quarters while performing a lengthy, gruelling activity. |
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The entertainment correspondent is one of 12 climbers setting their sights on conquering the summit as a dramatic coda to a gruelling expedition. |
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He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert. |
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The fitness we worked so hard on, that's when it all comes into play, when the season gets gruelling. |
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If you can't face the steep walk, three funicular trams ply the gruelling route. |
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The iron men and women of Kerry proved their mettle at the weekend when they competed in a gruelling triathlon to raise funds for a worthy cause. |
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Through a gruelling trial Gill lied and attempted to cover his tracks despite the evidence stacked against him. |
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Having practised the discipline since the age of 15, Rebecca is used to gruelling training routines. |
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The final was closer than the scoreline suggested, with both players adopting a defensive style in a gruelling final. |
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He was awarded a diploma with distinction at the end of the gruelling course. |
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So he put an incorrect date of birth on the application form and completed the gruelling 26 mile route. |
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Then we'd shoulder the saplings in tandem and carry them back to the cottage, a gruelling 40 minutes. |
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Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool. |
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These were based mainly in Scotland, where the courses were as gruelling as the terrain. |
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Teams of between two and eight dogs will run at speeds of over 20 miles per hour around the gruelling four-mile course. |
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The documentary filmed them preparing for the latter, and their gruelling training regime was something to behold. |
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David has been a paratrooper for a year after surviving a gruelling six-month training course. |
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Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby. |
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Riders must complete four to five laps in one day, each of which can easily be a gruelling 25 miles long. |
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Things did get a little gruelling at time, but by the time I had done 5K I knew that I was going to finish. |
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This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift. |
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Since then he has run the London marathon and the gruelling 150-mile Great Sahara Run. |
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His day starts at 7am on the rowing machines found in most gyms for an hour's gruelling work. |
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That means gruelling daily gym sessions and regular ice time at Altrincham, where he is a junior coach. |
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The scenery was breathtaking and it was a very enjoyable walk if a little gruelling at times. |
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With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit. |
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They'll have to endure five gruelling rehearsals to learn how to sing, wave and dance in exactly the correct way. |
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And Grant credits a gruelling pre-season training schedule with giving him the leg-up he needed to prove a point. |
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Sprinkled with gruelling technical climbs, crazy downhill flings, and easy-rolling side hills, this trail is excellent for all levels of riders. |
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For those unfamiliar with the sport of rogaining, it is a gruelling physical endurance event. |
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Each morning, the luggage, food and equipment needed for the gruelling miles ahead is loaded into a minibus. |
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But in a strange way, it added a level of realism that we wouldn't have got, gruelling though it was. |
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The gruelling climb will see the participants scale heights of 4000m in very difficult conditions. |
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Lightweight recreational mallets are not up to the task of this gruelling version of the game. |
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The cola giant, Thums Up, is challenging youth all over the country to undertake gruelling tests of strength and stamina. |
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The walking party stopped at bed and breakfasts overnight during their gruelling hike. |
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Solicitor Paul Cowper and his family endured a gruelling seven hours trapped on a balcony, surrounded by torrents of raging water in Sri Lanka. |
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To prepare for the gruelling event, she trained at the gym, using cross trainer machines, which simulate the action of skiing. |
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Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race. |
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A Swindon man who used to be a couch potato is now preparing to take on eight of the UK's most gruelling endurance races to raise money for charity. |
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Intense heat and humidity, coupled with painful swollen feet which was a side effect of surgery, meant I could complete only four of the gruelling seven days walking. |
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Most have travelled a long road to get to San Roque, and the pressure of trying to hold it all together over six gruelling rounds cannot be underestimated. |
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It would be unfeasible, I thought, and not a little greedy, to cover a gruelling election campaign, only to face another three-week marathon in Athens. |
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He has had plenty of time to prepare it and has won two races in it, including the Transat, the gruelling 2,800-mile single-handed transatlantic race, during the summer. |
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After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer. |
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Harry, the expedition patron, announced last month that he will join the gruelling 210-mile trek across Antarctica this winter. |
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It was an 18-month, gruelling journey for the elephant which was rechristened Sultan Suleyman by the king after the great enemy of Europe in those days. |
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The French favourite finished five minutes 19 seconds clear to give the locals a Bastille Day to remember after a gruelling ride in the Massif Central. |
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Instead of contending with a gruelling journey to work, the 31-year-old borough resident now enjoys hopping on her bike to do a job she finds worthwhile. |
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I have seen teams win gruelling matches through good goal kicking. |
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The commercial tells the tale of the brave Kerryman who undertook a gruelling 35-mile walk in a raging blizzard to summon help for the rest of his expedition. |
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Plus, after a gruelling few days the creative juices were a little slack. |
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After weeks of gruelling auditions and nail-biting tension, millions of fans tuned in on Saturday night as the final 10 boys and 10 girls were announced. |
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The funnyman has been battling to row across the English Channel on just one hour's sleep following a gruelling 185-mile bike ride. |
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During his gruelling expedition he has dodged pit vipers, electric eels, anaconda and scorpions. |
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The London club are 4-1 to repeat the v ictory and they will fancy their chances afterWigan's gruelling arm-wrestle with Saints. |
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The instructors put recruits through gruelling assault courses and long distnace runs. |
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Gazza went a London hospital after his gruelling training for Strictly Ice Dancing began to take its toll. |
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The series, which continues tomorrow night, uses Legionnaire instructors to recreate the unit's gruelling training. |
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At least 1,750,000 metres of loo paper will be used by the 10 strong fleet during the gruelling race. |
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Nine-year-old Vinny Ewart endured two gruelling days of auditions to win his role in Rapunzel at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen. |
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He arrived home after flying to RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday evening, weary from a gruelling 24-hour journey. |
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Umm Qarn's TM Thunder Struck and Al Anga were engaged in a gruelling battle in the final furlong before the latter won by a shorthead. |
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Welsh finished June with a gruelling win over Billy Glover, before facing Young Erne, an intelligent boxer from Philadelphia. |
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Other pictures capture her embracing her husband at the end of a gruelling snowmachine race and as a toddler armed with two giant shrimps. |
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Another seed also had a day to forget as Leonardo Mayer was defeated in a gruelling contest by his fellow Argentinian Guido Pella. |
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Mount Everest is 29,035ft high and Inglis has spent a gruelling 40 days on the mountain. |
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He chivvied and encouraged his team-mates through the gruelling response to the point-less weekend on Tuesday. |
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A RESCUE team from the Calder Valley is gearing up for a gruelling race across the Pennines. |
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The gruelling race, which takes place on a demanding 16-mile circuit, attracts more than 200 of the world's wackiest and high octane cars. |
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Carl Richardson, of Conwy, and Jim Williams, of Llandudno Junction, will make the gruelling 120-mile ride on their unicycles. |
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Surviving Land Girls today welcomed the news that they could now apply for the badge, which recognises the often gruelling work they undertook on the Home Front. |
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Twelve members of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, based at Edgbaston's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, are taking part in the gruelling Nijmegen Marches, in Holland. |
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A TEENAGE Royal Marine recruit has died of a heart attack just weeks before he was due to finish the gruelling training course to earn a Green Beret. |
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Freya Bevan, two, is on the road to recovery after completing her gruelling treatment by Dr Andrew Chang at the ProCure Proton Therapy Centre in Oklahoma. |
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They had the gruelling task of navigating eerie, water-filled abysses known as sumps and at one stage swam underwater in darkness for 600 metres in a 28-metre deep river. |
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The Green Beret is the distinctive hallmark of Commando troops, meaning those who wear it have passed a gruelling and physically-demanding test of endurance. |
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Contestants in River Deep, Mountain High had to take part in a gruelling 36-hour endurance test which involved everything from hiking and biking to absailing and canoeing. |
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Jorrin was awarded a majority points win following 12 gruelling rounds, but the verdict after the WBC super-bantamweight title fight left ringsiders bewildered. |
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Sophie, 25, offered to help out Sinead when she heard about the gruelling charity cycle she's planned in Chile to raise cash for the Reye's Syndrome sufferer. |
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The party atmosphere was a far cry from the gruelling 30-mile speed marches and demanding assault courses Pip, 27, overcame to succeed in the male-dominated Marines. |
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