For months now, as many of you are aware, I’ve been building up my running, I’ve been pleased with my progress, getting myself up to a good time, initially with my 5km runs, and then when I smashed a 10km. I wanted to prove I could do this, not only because I’ve entered a 10km run […]
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Wow! Now that was a day like no other. Yesterday I truly became ‘master of my fate’ and ‘captain of my soul’ as I journeyed so far out of my comfort zone and undertook a challenge like no other: the ice bath! Why? Why? You might well ask! Why do I push myself further and […]
A couple of years ago a good friend told me that he’d discovered the Wim Hof method of immersing himself in a barrel of cold water each day. He then took this to daily dips in the River Goyt and to lakes and rivers in Snowdonia. As many of you know, I’ve followed Joe Wicks […]
This week I have called upon the help of a friend. For weeks now I have struggled with my own fitness programme. I’ve not managed to keep the discipline of the past. I know that the moving house, retiring from my role as Parish Priest and the death of my dad has played a huge […]
This week I launched in with my first 5km run of 2022. I also led my first two POUND classes of the year. It’s been good to get moving again and it’s been good to get out of my own head. What I mean by that is that the sheer concentration on the movement alongside […]
It’s been one of those weeks! I began it with a run, then a run and row session, two Pound classes and I ended it with a run today. Monday morning was a gym session – it was pouring with rain, so as on Saturday, I put myself on the Treadmill. When I run alone, […]
As we move into colder months I am back to getting up in the dark to take myself off to the gym for an early morning Spin or HIIT class. Running in the dark is not an option, so it’s once more on the Treadmill. Joining with my daughter to lift weights again has also […]
The past week has seen me up and out at 6.40am on four mornings, ready to take on the challenge of an early morning class in the gym. It has been my first week back in 10 months! This has been partly due to a bit of nervousness- it’s true, the longer you leave something […]
‘Here we go!’ my class hears me shout, time and time again during a POUND session: it generally means we are about to launch into a move at twice the speed we’ve just been doing it! It’s a bit like going from a gentle walk to a sprint! It is the part of Pound that […]
So, I’ve had two weeks off any sort of exercise at all. I know, that is so unlike me! It has been partly due to being shattered at the end of the Festival season in addition to running the parish and trying to catch up on occasional offices – Baptisms and Burials of Ashes, on […]