Well as you know I started and completed the couch to 5k running program – then twisted my knee and I have been benched ever since. It’s been two weeks today since I last attempted to run and I really wanted to give it another go today as I am moving out to a completely [...]

In four days time I am moving house, I am going from living with my parents at one end of the country to living with my fiance on the other end of the country. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little nervous about what this is going to mean for my weight [...]

So, the day after I completed the Couch to 5k Running plan – I twisted my knee. How’s that for bad luck? I am not even totally sure how it happened, I just lost my concentration for a few seconds as there were a group of guys being rowdy and had a little wobble – [...]

I did it, yesterday I ran my first 5k…that’s 3 miles…that’s 30 minutes without stopping. I am patting myself on the back. I am going to do it twice more as that’s what the couch to 5k plan has you do before you can call yourself a graduate, but I am sure I will manage [...]

Well I knew it was too good to be true that I would get through the entire 9 week couch to 5k plan without a migraine, but I am annoyed it happened so late on into it when I only had a week to go. I was due to do my first 5k (W9D1) on [...]

It’s been a while since I last blogged, but don’t panic – I have not given up and gained all the weight back (in a few weeks? I should hope not) and am still on track with my weight loss. Though I have been enjoying the fudge my parents brought me back from their trip [...]

After many complaints and much wrangling I managed to get my elliptical replaced, the new one arrived today and I can’t wait to get it up and used! I am going to build it tomorrow, this will be about the 4th one I have done now and I know from experience that building it is [...]

I have just been looking for TV Brackets so we can mount ours on the wall, at the moment it’s just on a stand in the living room but it was a cheap stand and it tends to shake about when I am exercising in front of it – makes me paranoid to jump about [...]

Well yesterday I had my first failure at Couch to 5k, I have also somehow gained 4 pounds – although actually you’ll notice I have not ‘logged’ the gain or updated my stats because I don’t actually believe it to be accurate. I think I am just retaining water due to that time of the [...]

One thing I have quickly realised is how hard it is to keep making these Couch to 5k podcasts, the first few are easy to find the tracks for but as you make more you see it’s harder and harder to find really good running songs that are the right sort of speed and are [...]