Another trip is over So I left home at 6:13am on Friday 24th of May and returned back at 12:32pm on Sunday 16th of June. Whisky/Fèis Ìle The first part of my trip was very whisky related. The trip proper started with meeting up with some of the pirate gang at Tebay services. No drinking …
Category Archives: Fitness
Gout?
Oh f*%# Is how I can describe waking up on Thursday morning. If I touched my big toe on my right foot then I wanted to scream and I just couldn’t put a sock on and my toe wouldn’t move if I moved the others it was stuck frozen solid. So I went along to …
Tough Mudder Clapham Common
Early get up First train on a Saturday to change at London Bridge for the Northern Line to Clapham South meant I couldn’t stay out too long on Friday. I also found it quite hard not to get off the tube at Clapham Common, but the maps all agreed that Clapham South was the right …
Fireman Sam
So Sunday I had an interesting start to my day. I was helping at a local half marathon and walked to my marshalling spot getting there nice and early just in case. A lady nothing to do with the event came up to me in a major panic as she had locked her child in …
Insect bites
I’m going to start this post with a only read on if you can cope with photos of insect bites on my foot warning.
Get back on track
So it’s time to get back on track. Having to buy the largest waist jeans M & S sell is never a good plan, which when I did lose weight I promised I’d never put it back, but alas I failed there. Time has come to fix this. I’ve ordered some new swimming goggles (with …
The running show
That was a good wake up and sort yourself out reminder. The friends who nagged me helped as well (all of it supportive nagging), but more being reminded how much I started to enjoy running previously. So many events I’d like to sign up to, but alas I am too heavy at the moment and …
Stupid Body
Last night on the way home I couldn’t type with my thumb, which is how I normally type on my phone. Every time my thumb was anywhere near the phone screen it would start in a fairly dramatic tremor. Fortunately I could still type if I didn’t use my thumb, but it was slightly awkward …
What I have got planned
Well there’s the running show, I’m off to next week. I’m spending more and more time playing in the mud and socialising with the friends I’ve made in the mud. So a fair few of the OCR Solo Mudders are off to the National Running show next week. (Once I’ve got my weight back down …