Nothing can disrupt a run of clean eating like a wedding. And in the past fortnight I've had two. That said, I've had two pretty perfect weekends, so sacrificing my health streak (or maybe just suspending it temporarily?) was certainly worthwhile. First, it was the wedding of my pseudo-cousin and life-long, lovely friend, Laura, to [...]
One of my utter guilty pleasures is buying fitness magazines. At around £4 a time they're not the thriftiest of indulgences, then again, in my defence, they're not the most expensive (at least they're not designer shoes or handbags). I also justify my spending by that fact that these magazines provide motivation for my workouts [...]
When you've been doing any sport for a prolonged period, it's not unusual to suddenly realise that you've been resting in your comfort zone. If I'm honest, I'm a comfort zone kind of a girl. I'm happy to kick out a gentle 8km jog of a lunch break, or a lazy Sunday 15km along the canal, and [...]
I love my body. There's a sentence you rarely hear. And this is something that's been playing on my mind, particularly following on from the recent backlash, featured in various news articles and on social media this week, against the latest Protein World adverts. In case you haven't seen them, the ads show a woman, with the [...]
As regular readers will know, I seem to have discovered my inner yogi of late. In fact, while I've been getting over my post-race cold and chest infection (I'm currently coughing like a 40-a-day smoker and even I have to concede that running just isn't a good idea), yoga has been my saviour. I discovered [...]
So you train and then you train some more. You eat, sleep and breath marathon. It motivates you on your long runs and it's the intention of your yoga practice. You've read all the books and bought all of the kit and then, suddenly, it's all over. From my (albeit limited) experience, people respond to [...]
Regular readers may be vaguely aware (I think I might have alluded to it once or twice?!) that on Sunday I was set to run in the Paris marathon. After months of training, lots of new kit (all totally necessary of course), a number of practice races, miles of long Sunday runs (and post-run Sunday afternoon [...]
As holidays go, Easter is easily my favourite. Much like Christmas, it’s the only holiday when work completely comes to halt and everyone, in the UK at least, takes a long weekend, guilt-free in the knowledge that their inbox isn’t going to be backing up in their absence. Unlike Christmas, however, there is less of [...]
This was a phrase that R introduced me to at a recent race as we were warming up together and watching the other runners as they arrived. The last few races that I've entered have been small, club-run events, set up for people training for a marathon. As a non-club runner this has been particularly terrifying: [...]
As marathon day draws ever closer my fear is tempered with the gratefulness. Sometimes it's easy to forget how lucky I am that I can just get out and run. And keep running. This weekend I completed anther 20 mile race and it felt good. I thought of Clay as I ran, heard his words in [...]
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