Just like that, Christmas was over and it was New Year. December was a busy month for me, I had a lot of training plans to write ready for runners to start training in January and although I spent a lot of time staring at the calendar, January has crept up on me a bit. [...]
Hey, want to start going to the gym but find it all a bit baffling or intimidating or anxiety inducing? Yeah, you're not alone. Even the most friendly, welcoming gym can seem a bit daunting if you're new. Because it's an unfamiliar space. Stuff that's unfamiliar always seems much scarier than it is. Like when [...]
Are you bored of Christmas telly yet? Yeah, me too. Here's a list of documentaries that I've watched this year and that will inspire you to put your trainers on and go outside. The Fall - Zola Budd Vs Mary Decker (Sky) The Fall tells the tale of Zola Budd and Mary Deckerand their much-anticipated [...]
It's been a funny old year, full of surprises. Some good, some less good. The good I've done nine ten races this year. Plus one I dropped out of. Not a bad finish to DNF ratio. Three of those races were cross country races, which I'd have liked to do more of but the dates [...]
I asked my friend Josie to take me swimming the other day. I haven't been swimming for a long time and, for various reasons, even though I survived a mass swim start of an Ironman with 2000 other swimmers, I was nervous about going to the pool. It can be scary and intimidating doing something [...]
A year ago I left my full-time job to work for myself. I've read a lot of articles and blogs and heard people talk about doing this over the years, but none of them were a story like mine. I didn't storm out the office one day, my chair still spinning as I flicked two [...]
This is the third and final blog in my series on incontinence in partnership with Depend. If you missed the first on the stigma of incontinence and a podcast talking to two women on exercising with incontinence, I recommend you catch up on those. Incontinence is a very common condition. Research by Depend found that one [...]
Use what you have: adapting training I grew up in Peterborough which, if you don't know it, is on the edge of The Fens. And if you don't know that, it's pancake flat. The landscape is similar to Holland - flat fields that were once under water and drainage dykes between. So when I was [...]
There's something about December and January that prompt an upswing in silly challenges doing the rounds. Already this month I've seen a 500 kettlebell swing challenge, a running every day from Thanks Giving to Christmas challenge, and a 5 minute plank challenge. And they all make me do a big sigh. I don't want any [...]
I've been meaning to round-up some books I've been reading this year for a while. And as the end of the year is fast approaching, there's no time like now. They're not all new books, some of them have been out a while but I've only just got round to reading them (I'm a quicker [...]
