Monthly Archives: October 2018

Clearly I couldn’t resist rounding it up to 100 miles for October. 😳😂 I was planning on doing a Strength session today and a run tomorrow, so the simple thing to do was to swap them around. I had aimed … Continue reading →

I came across this article the other day on the BBC News website – you plug in your details and you see what your BMI & health risks are and you can compare yourself to others in your country – … Continue reading →

This morning I enjoyed the extra hour in bed, before getting up to run to Queens Park to do Moira’s 5k Run there. I did it last year and enjoyed it, so entered again this year. This year we started … Continue reading →

Last week I got loads of running done – up to Friday I’d run 26.2 miles in a week, and had already run four times (five including the Sunday before). I’ll have run about 85 miles for the month by … Continue reading →

I usually run in a supportive shoe – my usual runners are Mizuno Wave Inspires, structured and supportive running trainers for long distance running. I really like my purple ones, but I’ve had red ones and pink ones, black ones … Continue reading →

This week I got my first update on my ‘Training Status’ from my Garmin 645 Music. Garmin Training Status shows how your training affects fitness and performance and it should be a good measure to keep an eye on. After … Continue reading →

After last year’s monthly target of 100 miles a month, I realised that I found a lot of motivation in aiming for an achievable and rounded monthly mileage goal. 100 miles was ok when I was training for marathons, but … Continue reading →

Here’s an idea… I’ll share the book I’m reading on here, and if you fancy it, you could buy it, and read it too. Fancy it? I bought this book a couple of years ago and got some good insight … Continue reading →

Last week I did three strength sessions and two runs. I’m still hopefully going to get my third run in over this weekend, but we’ll see. I listened to my body on Thursday and instead of an early run, I … Continue reading →

Since I set up my gym in our garage… I’ve been slowly adding to it with bits and pieces to make it what I want. I started doing it up in April 2017 and it was ready for use in … Continue reading →