Step Out of Your Comfort Zone This Year I love running marathons. It wasn’t always that way. For a long time I loved sitting on my sofa, watching TV. I still do to an extent, but I do it a lot less now. Now my spare time is filled with running, cycling and going to [...]
10 Reasons to Start Running After years of inactivity and hating exercise, I took up running and, to my surprise, found a sport that not only made me fitter and stronger, but that I actually started to enjoy. Here’s 10 reasons why you should give running a chance this year and learn to love it. [...]
If you're new to running, or thinking about stepping it up a gear to take on a few races, there's a few things that your nearest and dearest need to know - for your sake and theirs.You're going to be a bit of a boreAchieving new distances, times and tackling hills you once thought was [...]
Unless you're one of those annoying people who could run pretty much as soon as they could walk and that always looked forward to the annual school sports day with the excitement that most of us save for Christmas or a pint at the end of a long week, everyone sucks at running when they [...]
The Biggest Loser returns to our screens next Monday and I for one cannot wait! Not least because the lovely Davina McCall will be presenting it. I got into this show quite late last time round because, not having Sky, I hadn't seen the previous series. What I like about it is that is shows [...]
The first week of January and the number of runners I'm seeing on the streets is definitely higher than it was a week ago. That's not just because the roads have shed the layer of ice that they had last week but that New Year's resolutions to get fit have forced people outside. Seeing them [...]
While I was in France last week, not running and eating lots of cheese, I got chatting with a woman who was a nurse in the UK. Despite not being a runner or having any inclination towards becoming one, she began to lecture me on the subject. I was willing to hear her out - [...]
