28 Days of Healthy Living; Day 4

If it takes a minimum of 21 days to make a habit I’m giving myself 28 days. 28 days of aiming to be healthier. Follow healthy habits through out my day; To eat better, exercise more frequently and make healthier choices. This is all with the hopes that by the time the 28 days is...

28 Days of Healthy Living: Day 3

If it takes a minimum of 21 days to make a habit I’m going to be generous and give myself 28 days. 28 days of aiming to be healthier (Hopefully). To eat better (maybe) , exercise more frequently and make healthier choices throughout the day. This is all with the hopes that by the time...

If you give up because it’s hard it will never get easy: running through January.

Urgh January Running brakes my heart. It’s cold, damp, windy and dark! I want to love the run but due to general poor training over December every run feels twice as long while Running; but feels like little has been achieved once finished. I seem to constantly hurt throughout January too. My training is so...

Slow and steady wins the race; or so I hope.

I’ve recently fallen off the wagon a bit when it comes to running…. I feel like I am constantly saying this at the moment. Over the last year my running has been horrendous! I’ve managed some good times in races but my overall training hasn’t been great. My commitment has slipped. Lately it’s largely because...

Running through the cold snap: or more accurately Not running through the cold snap.

Its killing me, this weather, I just don’t seem to be able to run! It’s been either too dark, cold, wet or so windy I can barely put one foot in front of the other. My body is really feeling sluggish since I haven’t been running, my brain is feeling less able to cope with...

Maintaining momentum.

My biggest challenge when it comes to running is keeping going. Keeping up a good training program for a decent amount of time seems beyond me: I start off well, I become a-bit rubbish, I improve, then again I’m rubbish! Which means I see little to no real improvement. My times just don’t get any...

Running: Finding the love.

I've had some awful runs of late . I've lost motivation again and again; and fallen a little out of love. The last few runs have felt more of a chore than something I genuinely enjoy. I had signed up for the Bournemouth Marathon festival 10km last year. I've done the run before and thought...

Running: Trials and triumphs of the not so fast runner.

The last few months have been testing ( to say the least ). I have regressed, don't often see any improvement and have slipped into laziness. I'm bored of my running route and desperately slipping out of love with running! I don't know why I have been unable to get my head in the game....

Were we tough enough for a Tough Mudder Half?

I ache. I'm soar. I'm pretty sure my ear is still full of mud! Yesterday the bestie and I completed a Tough Mudder Half. 5 miles 14 obstacles. It was undeniably brilliant.  I'm loving my headband and T-shirt! I Loved my pint at the end, but that didn't last long, and I'm feeling proud.  First...