When I was running a half marathon last month, I took to people watching to block out the pain and it caused me to question, not for the first time, what it means to be fit and healthy. On my slow descent to exhaustion, I took in the runners around me (and the many overtaking … Continue reading Fit and Healthy: are they the same thing?
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The Metaphorical Oracle
Each and every morning I step upon the scale I try to resist the calling, but always to no avail The numbers it foretells hold a strange power over me For they often can predict, just how my day will be Should the number go up my day will be grim I lose an … Continue reading The Metaphorical Oracle
The little things really do make a big difference, if you give them enough time
Anyone who has known me for longer than six years will know that exercise was not something I ever really committed to in the past. In my youth and early twenties I actively avoided it. I would attend the gym sporadically (usually before a holiday) but I never got much fitter and just pegged exercise … Continue reading The little things really do make a big difference, if you give them enough time
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