SPONSORED POST "Do I smell?" It's a question I've asked my colleagues in earnest several times this week. I cycle to work every morning, five miles across London with a few hills and near-death experiences thrown in to get the heart rate pumping a bit faster. I shower before I leave my flat because, although [...]
A few weeks I was asked to take part in the What I See project. It brings together a diverse group of interesting women and to answer the question: "What do you see when you look in the mirror?" The responses are all filmed and you can see mine here. And yes, my dress does [...]
A year ago I was puffing away in the shallow end of my local pool trying to find my balance and figure out how to not get water up my nose. Swimming 25 meters of front crawl was still a few weeks away and I watched the proper swimmers with envy thinking I’d never get [...]
My first triathlon - not loving it I love running. Just in case I haven’t already mentioned it. I think cycling is pretty great too. It definitely beats getting the tube or bus as a mode of transport. I’ve recently learnt to love swimming too, just not quite as much as I love [...]
I hate burpees. The exercise where you move from a standing position to squatting and then jump your legs out behind you to a press-up position before immediately bringing your feet back up to your hands and then jumping up – repeated many times. I hate burpees, so I don’t do them. Last night I [...]
I’d been running a little under a year when I first realised where running could take me. I don’t mean in the metaphorical sense – it’s taken me to do all sorts of things I would never have done before I became a runner, like going travelling round the world by myself – I mean [...]
If you don't already listen to the Marathon Talk podcast you should. And you should definitely listen to this week's show. BECAUSE I'M ON IT!Martin and Tom invited me on to talk about my experience of going from not being about to run AT ALL to getting my Good For Age qualification and lots of [...]
What do you think about when you think about swimming? For a long time I thought of damp changing rooms, wet hair on a cold walk home from the pool and soggy towels in my bag. I thought about the sting of water going up my nose, being pulled out of the water by a [...]
I'm against picnics. I don't see the point of preparing food and then carting it a few miles to a local park to consume it by which time it will be warm instead of cold or cold instead of hot and taste less good than if you'd stayed at home. I'm against all picnics with [...]
