This is me. This is not who I used to be
I used to do everything in my power to skip PE at school, hated (and still do) the idea of the gym and generally preferred my sofa to my trainers.
Until I made a commitment earlier this year to go back to running and get better at it.
Until at a vitality retreat in June I made a commitment to…
I run 5k for this little girl
She was about 9 years old. She was always told that she was chubby, bad at sport and that she really should lose some weight.
One evening her mother decided that it would be a great idea to go for a jog. She wore a pink tracksuit and looked like a little Piglet. She never went running before. She was gasping for air within the first couple of minutes and…
Food, Freedom And Fun
There is a lot of hype, myths, and misconceptions out there around dieting, finding the perfect program, and, well, let’s face it, we live in a world of information. You can Google any subject or buy any book and be overloaded with information. But, for many people, all the diet books, the TV shows, and the Googling of information leads us to absolute confusion about what to eat. That…
Ready, steady, RUN
Are you one of those people, who look at runners with admiration? Maybe you think they’re so cool, in their cute outfits, fitting in a run at lunch, or before work? You may think that they are super humans, and that running was just ‘not for you”.
That’s what I used to think too. My mom took me out for my first run, I was maybe 10 years old, unfit,…