Drinking Water – Why & How I am Trying to Up My Intake
Why and how I am trying to uptake the amount of water I am drinking throughout the day
Running and Fitness
Running and Fitness posts
My Year Jeffing and How it Helped me Achieve!
Jeffing in 2020. How I discovered it and what it helped me to achieve.
Habit Forming or Not – Hope for Accomplishment Next Year!
Apparently you have to do something for x amount of days to make it a habit. People argue about the length of time but they are all most definitely below 100 days. This year I managed to get my longest run on my daily step goal (of 10,000 steps a day) to 103 days. But … Read more
After Jeffing a Marathon
It takes different people different amounts of time to recover from a marathon. I read to fully recover from a marathon it can take up to six months. Obviously it will be dependent on your fitness on how you trained. Plus of course how you approached the marathon itself. Jeffing is thought to lessen the … Read more
Tips for Swimming in the River in Autumn
Swimming in the river in Autumn is rather different to that of wild swimming in summer. I started swimming in a local river a while ago when we bought our Stand Up Paddle Board. I only ever go to the same place as we had been with Natalie from Plutoniumsox Blog as she is a … Read more
Virtual London Virgin Marathon – The 40th Race
I had agreed to run the Virtual London Virgin Marathon for Winston’s Wish just 4 weeks before the big day. I am not great at training for anything but had been running regularly and followed advice from the tapering weeks. Kit for the Virtual London Marathon The big trouble with not training properly for a … Read more
Tapering a Week to go until the Marathon
Sunday the last long run before the Marathon With one week to go until the Virtual London Marathon I needed to do an 8 mile long run. The Sunday runners said they were going out further than I needed. I could stop off at 8.5 miles but then I would need to get home. I … Read more