CrossFit was so good last week I am just now starting to walk normally again. On Tuesday we did back squats and I got up to 50kg for the last 3 reps. Then we did 5 rounds of pistols (with a box behind us so we wouldn’t fall over :) and hip hinges with 25kg [...]
Some days I just need to run for just the joy of it. This afternoon I headed out with music – something I haven’t done in a while, and decided just to ‘get lost’ on the gazillion paths of Wimbledon Common not worrying about distance, time, cadence or forefoot vs midfoot vs heel striking. The [...]
Yesterday morning as I headed out for a run, I was wearing three tops, long leggings and gloves. I don’t mind wearing any of this stuff in the winter but it’s mid May and I mind. The weather gets to me, I can’t help it. My husband keeps saying that we didn’t move to London [...]
I have been blogging for 8 years and have been to several blogging conferences. This year I no longer update my parenting blog, I have this one here instead and it’s totally perfect that my first blogging conference in 2013 was not a parenting one (two of those will come later on this summer) but [...]
Last week I only worked for two days. Being at home for most of the week, out of my normal Monday-Friday schedule and no marathon in the near future to train for both in mileage and nutrition, I realised that my sugar-free life needs a bit of a re-evaluation. I still don’t eat foods that [...]
Once upon a time were were all told that coconut milk, cream or oil was bad for us. That was around the same time that I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter was thought to have been healthy. Today everyone knows that there ain’t nothing wrong with real food – avocados, full fat butter and all [...]
Last week I was reading an interview that Kaisa Larkas did with Muireann Carey-Campbell and one thing that she said spoke so loudly to me that I have been thinking about it ever since: I work out because I love my body, not because I hate it. Read it again. Does that not sound perfect [...]
A friend’s hens day at a spa could not have come at a better time – on Saturday I got to soothe my aching muscles by swimming, getting a massage and lounging in the hot tub or just out in the sun.
I was thinking the other day that although I tweet about CrossFit a lot, I haven’t been blogging about it much. Is it because of little comments I’ve heard from people? That CrossFit is a bit extreme? That it’s a sure way to get injured? That it’s just an American fad? It might be because [...]
I have done three runs now since my massively informative session at Vivobarefoot. The advice was to just do short runs in the barefoot shoes, 1km at a time to begin with. However, I am Miss “I Won’t Get Out of Bed for Less Than 10km” so I haven’t followed that advice. I have run [...]
