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Healthy Date Ideas for Valentine’s Day

Healthy Date Ideas for Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day isn’t going to be the most romantic, however I do know it will be a lot of fun, which suits me fine. Our day will start with a marathon training run, followed by an enormous breakfast cooked at home, then we’re off to Twickenham...
Do you want to cycle London to Paris in 24 hours?

Do you want to cycle London to Paris in 24 hours?

I know I do, however it was one of those things that I was telling myself that I couldn’t do. I wasn’t a proper ‘cyclist’. Perhaps I would do a longer, less scary version. But then my friend Sophie set up a sportive, taking 200 cyclists fully...
The Fear of Running

The Fear of Running

Steph and I had the Osterley Park Run scheduled in our diaries for Dec 13th for months. We’d both wanted to enjoy a little run around the National Trust grounds, (especially after I ran around them after dark a few weeks ago) and I’d heard they had a...
What to do When You’ve Lost Your Running Mojo?

What to do When You’ve Lost Your Running Mojo?

I’ve lost my running mojo. I’m pretty sure I lost it around mile 19 of the Berlin Marathon, and I haven’t seen it since. I haven’t run since the Berlin Marathon nearly four weeks ago. It may well be the longest I’ve not run since I first...