Today I went on a small swimming tour around London, organised by The Swimmer. Their website has more info about the inspiration etc., but the basic idea is to swim in four locations in London, running between them:

• Hampstead Heath pond
• Parliament Hill lido
• Serpentine
• Brockwell lido

The total running distance is supposed to be roughly equivalent to a ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned before, I'm trying to get back into shape by doing a bit more exercise. The Fitbug is working out quite well, since it gives me a specific target to aim for (revised each week): it started out at 5000 steps/day, and I'm now up to 6900. I don't hit my target every day, but that's ok; it acts as an incentive, and I do modify my ( Read more... )

Virgin Active have put a quiz on their website: Are you a couch potato? Unfortunately it doesn't work in Firefox or IE7 (on my Vista machine), and the questions aren't particularly insightful, but I think I do tend to be too sedentary ( Read more... )

I'm now starting a pretty full week for SJA. Yesterday I spent most of the day working on the website, today I've been off to Whitgift school for a biathlon, on Tuesday evening it's the regular training slot, on Wednesday evening I'm doing my AED requal, on Thursday evening I'm on duty at a football match, and on Saturday I'm doing medical gases ( Read more... )

Right, time for a quick roundup of what I've been up to in the last week. As many of you will have noticed, it's been rather warm ( Read more... )

I've been running in Hyde Park a couple more times since my last entry. Apparently I'm massively pro-natal: this has nothing to do with childbirth, it just means that I have my weight towards the inside edges of my feet, rather than evenly balanced. So, since my 10 year old trainers have now seen better days, I think it's time for some new ones. I ( Read more... )

Hmm, looking back at the last week, I've been far more active than usual:
Monday - running
Tuesday - climbing
Wednesday - running
Thursday - day off (pub!)
Friday - running
Saturday - swimming
Sunday - rollerblading

( Sporting stuff )

Today I went off for my second Nike training run. ( Running stuff )

No climbing last Tuesday, but I'll be heading off to the walls again shortly, and taking my test so that hopefully I won't need to be supervised anymore. Instead, I met up with Mandy and Fiona (a couple of my old Durham friends) in the evening, and it was good to see them again ( Read more... )

Further to my previous entry, here's a brief summary of the facts about the Nike 10km run, for anyone who can't view the Flash on the official website.

( Nike )