Progress, or the arbitrary rationalisation of numbers

As with my last post I'd like to preface the below with a caveat: I've been doing rather too much thinking and reading this week and as a result the following post could border on the indulgent (even more so than usual), tenuous and/or nonsensical. With that in mind, let's begin. On Wednesday I attended a [...]

Run, rest, recover, repeat.

There is a slightly irrational part of me that clings to the notion that fitness is a cumulative process, irrespective of periods of rest or injury. I want to believe that somehow our fitness levels go on hold during these stretches of inactivity; that they are suspended while our bones heal and our ligaments and [...]

Running numbers

Is there a benefit to using a run tracker and can it improve your performance?

An ode to swimming

I still love swimming. Still, because it was the sport of my teenage years and the time I spent dedicated to it had the potential to backfire. Training took up my Friday nights and Saturday mornings. We swam before school, after school, Sunday afternoons and Monday mornings. We'd spend hours at a time at the [...]