Weekly Workout Round-Up: The Start of Summer!

TOTALS: 46 miles run, 4 strength sessions This week has just whipped past. I have no idea how it went so fast when I have done not very much other than my normal running schedule and my work. In addition to my job here and my blog, I also have to do a project for…

Weekly workout round-up: Decision Time!

TOTAL: 39 miles run, 3 strength sessions, 1 climbing session This week has been so strange, seeming to drag so slowly from Monday-Thursday and then the past three days racing away in the blink of an eye. It’s also been filled with some super high points, and some quite bad lows where things just kept…

World Mental Health Day: Let’s talk about eating

I’ve never used the term “eating disorder”. For me, that conjures up images of skeletal girls and boys, being hospitalized or placed under care, people who don’t eat a crumb. If I’m being courageous, I’ll call it “disordered eating”. When I don’t want to call attention to it, when I try and kid myself that…

Weekly Workout Round-up: Recovery Week

TOTALS: 33 miles run, 3 strength workouts This week was a de-load week in preparation for some long runs coming up! I had a lower mileage long run, and lower mileages through the week – which was just what I needed after the hectic week I had last week (if you haven’t yet seen my…

Weekly Workout Round-up: Surprise half marathon edition!

TOTAL: 39 miles run, 2 strength sessions I’m in the middle of training for a marathon, logging all of my miles and trying to follow plan as much as possible. What that plan did not tell me to do was… race a half-marathon on Sunday. Yet, what did I do? I did just that, because…

IMPULSIVENESS: a welcome addition to exercise?

I’m one of the most impulsive people you’ll meet. A friend suggests a holiday in the next week? Sign me up! I hear about a great movie on that night? I’m there! I decide to move to Santiago, Chile, for four months? All in a day’s work… I just don’t really plan things, and that…

Weekly workout round-up: Marathon Training whilst Travelling!

TOTAL: 37 miles run, 3 strength sessions I went to Los Angeles this week on a business trip!! As a job opportunity and a travel plan, it was something I was very excited about, but in terms of my fitness I was also nervous, because I had just committed to a training plan, and didn’t…

Weekly Workout Round-up: A WEEK LATE!

TOTAL: 32 miles run, 2 strength sessions, 1 climbing session (Quick note – I wrote this on Monday 18th, when I was on the plane to L.A, but then was so busy with work that I didn’t have time to post it! So, it’s coming today with another post I wrote on the plane then…

(SEMI)PALEO: An update

Anyone following me on Instagram will have noticed that I haven’t been keeping up with my account lately – posting rarely, and with none of the usual pretty pictures of my meals. I’ve already written a post about how living here in Santiago is slightly more difficult than back home (which can be found HERE…

TRAINING GOALS PART 1: Running into difficulties

The past couple of months, I’ve felt myself in a bit of a rut. That may have been noticeable with my lack of blog posts, especially in the last couple of weeks. Once I finished university for the summer, I was at the highest peak my running had ever been, and I was doing more…