1k and a good deed a day

Want to run but don't know where to start? Follow these easy tips and start your running journey today... * Start slow, like as slow as a tortise -he won in the end didn't he?! Download couch to 5k and follow that, or decide on how long you want to go out for and run/walk it... For example: 'I want to go out for 15 minutes!' ... 5 min fast walk warm up 1 min run  1 min walk (catch your breath, 60 seconds till you go again.. buzzing!) 1 min run, then 1 min walk and so on.  Take a 5 minute cool down walk at the end, while swearing under your breath that everything hurts and your lungs are going to explode.  * Don't over do it. Have rest days, keep looking forward to your next run. Don't laugh, once you get the running bug you will be banging on to everyone you know about how running has changed your life and how amazing it is. Honestly, you will!  You will also do your friends head in banging on about it, so find some groups online where you can brag a

WARNING! These may look edible... actually on second glance, they do not and I can tell you, they are not.  I thought I could save a bit of money and do some good by making my own granola bars, but these are beyond awful.  I've been racking my one brain cell trying to think of good deeds to do, it's blooming hard with Covid and I don't want it to just to be a year of picking up bits of discarded rubbish.  These bars were going to be for friends and family, something I could leave on their doorsteps...I would be thanked in spades and told they are the best thing they have ever eaten!  I thought perhaps I could leave some somewhere for the homeless, but, unfortunately the only place these are going to be going is the deep dark depths of a bin.  Vile. That about sums them up in case you were wondering.  So, good deeds completed this week: Picking up bits of discarded rubbish and throwing these granola bars in the bin.  Best get that brain cell working again. 

2020, well, what the heck was that?  I'll tell you what THAT was, it was the year... THAT I RAN A MARATHON!!!!! It has taken me nearly a month to write a blog, possibly because I am still exhausted and also because I can't quite actually believe that I did it.  But I've got the medal, which I have worn a lot and slept next to a lot. No, it's not weird. All runners do it. Well, ok it is not strictly true because I asked in my running groups and out of hundreds of people, only one other said she also wore her medals after the race.  Whatever, I paid a lot of money for them, so I will wear them whenever I like.  So 2021, what are we going to do with you?  An ultra is an aim if races get going again, (#poet), and I am hoping to pass my course next week to become a run coach and start my own running group '1k and a good deed a day'. Also open air swimming, I have only dipped my feet in so far... And it was ruddy freezin

Resolutions for the year... Keep up to date with blogging 🤣  Which will start tomorrow....!

Where: Homefield park, Worthing Difficulty: 3 out of...out of a score I've not really put too much thought into. Let's go with 5. Difficulty: 3 out of 5 Loops of park to get to 5k: I worked it out to be about 0.8 per loop so however many that is, 6ish? First ever run around this route, nice and simple, some slight slopes. Difficulty rating is high because of all of the dogs running around.  Not sure who has right of way, me or the mutts. Glared at a couple and think I came the closest I have ever been to being bitten.  Hospital is visible on part of the route, which makes you appreciate the fact you are not in there. Though, after struggling for breath at one point, it might have looked like I should admit myself.  If you like animals, this is one for you, with countless dogs and squirrels to dodge, you won't be bored.  (That blurry ball of fluff is a squirrel.) If you don't exhaust yourself there is even an outdoor gym to get stuck into. (Covid

  Have a fun run Running in the rain gives you a 90% chance of feeling like a superhero*, running in the snow also gives you the same odds, and in some mind bending way, running in these conditions is actually really fun. But how about making every run a fun run? Impossible? No! There are ways to make even the dullest, longest training runs a bit easier. Here are some tips to help you mix it up and have a fun run... Don’t look forward Turn around and try running backwards, it is a completely different feeling and it is quite freeing to try something completely different. You won’t get any PB’s (unless they are in backwards running, then actually you will) and may want to try it when no one else is around for the first few times, but just throw it in at random intervals. If you really get into it check out Aaron Yoder, who holds the Guiness world record for the fastest backwards mile- completed in 5 minutes 30 seconds. Shoes off Unlace those trainers and let your runners f