Janathon 2011

Congratulations to everyone who took part in Janathon 2011 - the inaugral Janathon event. My stats aren't as bad as I'd feared. I ran and blogged 21 out of 31 days. I did my core exercises most of the other days and am well on my way to developing a two-pack. A two-pack of what [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0031 January 2011|

Save our shoes

I often see the same people on my morning commute and they stand out to me for various reasons. There's tall engineer man who reads journal articles, there's Sudoku woman who taps away on her Blackberry for 20 minutes every morning and there's sad Salomon woman. I don't mean that she's sad, she looks as [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0028 January 2011|

Last night’s Biggest Loser: Week 3

It's always wise to warm-up properly before exercise, and I extend this rule to watching exercise. So before I settled down to watch The Biggest Loser last night, I did some light dynamic stretching with an old episode of Frasier. The episode 'Frasier lite' sees the team at KACL (Frasier's radio station) competing in a [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0025 January 2011|

Hold on – there’s light at the end of the tunnel

Last week, as I left work I saw something amazing in the sky. It happens every year but never fails to get me all excited. It wasn't the solar eclipse, the alignment of Mars with Venus or a shooting star - it was the gradual lightening of the sky. At 5 o'clock the sky wasn't [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0024 January 2011|

Passing on the batton

Ex-smokers are some of the biggest anti-smokers, and in much the same way, this reformed couch potato steps onto a somewhat giant soapbox when it comes to extolling the virtues of regular exercise. I love running and what it has done for me. I sometimes think that if everyone ran a few miles a few [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0022 January 2011|

Running in your lunch break

For me, how I feel about my lunchtime run reflects how I feel about running generally. The night before when I'm packing my bag for work it seems like a good idea, in the morning while I sit at my desk I try to invent reasons why I shouldn't do it, but when I actually get [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0019 January 2011|

Last night’s Biggest Loser: Week 2

The show started with Angie proclaiming that 'Week two is the hardest week'. I'm sensing that either Angie or Richard will start each week's show with a statement similar to this. Maybe Week Three will be the hardest to burn calories but Week Four will be the hardest to get motivated and Week Five is [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:34+01:0018 January 2011|

Core strength for runners

It doesn't involve going outside in the rain, it can be done in the confines of the front room and you can watch TV while you do it - so why oh why do I find it so difficult to do my core strength exercises? It's supposed to make your running form better and therefore [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:35+01:0017 January 2011|

Not giving up

Setting a goal can have its downsides. And I don't just mean having to put in hard work to make them happen. Sometimes there comes a point when you realise that you're not going to make it and the temptation to give up on your target becomes overwhelming. So when I realised I wasn't going [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:38+01:0016 January 2011|

What we’ve learnt from running in films

Today, as I slammed my front door shut and ran down the street in a rage I was reminded why I originally started running. It wasn't so that I could get fit or lose weight or run a marathon. No, it was so that I could do things like look all scerene and medatative running [...]

2011-01-13T21:49:00+00:0013 January 2011|
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