I went for a run Saturday and Sunday mornings, about 3.5 miles each time, a mixture of running and walking. Then I visited my brother in Leicester on Sunday and we walked from his flat to and from town, which was probably another 8 or so miles. And my brother is a fast walker and I probably have to do 1.5 paces for every one of his. I was ( Read more... )

Does anyone else really struggle with exercise during their period ( Read more... )

I finally hit my 5K goal! Second time of trying - first time I was so close to hitting my target and then I hurt my foot and had to lay off running for two months, and just could not bring myself to start from scratch all over again. But I did it this time ( Read more... )

I must be mad. I was up at 5.45am this morning to go for a run. Yes, on Christmas morning. Mad, clearly. But it was lovely, so cold and crisp, and there wasn't a soul about, not a car on the road, not a light in a house. Just me and the ground beneath my feet and the air in my lungs ( Read more... )

The streetlights in my neighbourhood are on a timer, and I timed my run this morning just at the right time - so that almost every time I ran under a streetlight it went off. Made me feel like Dumbledore or Magneto - I had to resist the urge to make some kind of magical gesture at the light, and bam, off it would go ( Read more... )

I'm so tired at the moment. I think I've fallen into this vicious cycle of going to bed early because I feel tired and then waking up early because clearly my body isn't that tired, only my mind. I'm stuck in this 'bed at 8.30pm, up at 5.30am' rut ( Read more... )

It was my late shift last night at work and normally I don't come in until lunchtime - basically the same hours just shifted back. But yesterday I had to come in early because I had three back-to-back tutorials with first year law students on using the law reports and statute books for research. So it was a twelve-hour workday for me yesterday, so ( Read more... )

I went to the gym this morning before work, despite the fact that I also went yesterday after work. I was awake early, I was lying in bed being not-so-gently kneaded by hungry kitties, so I figured if I was going to get up I might as well do something with that time. So I was outside the gym waiting for it to open at 6.30am ( Read more... )

Ugh, I am just exhausted. I'm actually at the point where I am looking forward to the autumn and winter nights rolling in, just so it will be dark in the mornings. Even with a sleeping mask on and the blind and curtains down, I still wake up with the light. In a way it's good, I much prefer waking up naturally to being jerked awake by an alarm, but ( Read more... )

I haven't been to the gym since before Christmas. I have lost 9 pounds since then. I have lost more in the last six months than in the previous two years of exercising and dieting and stressing and gaining a pound, losing a pound, gaining two, losing two ( Read more... )