Saturday 10 October is World Mental Health Day which is the annual global celebration of mental health education, awareness and advocacy. The theme for 2015 is dignity in mental health. I will be celebrating the day by taking on another one of the ‘Do It For Dan’ challenges in Nottingham. I will be tackling the … Continue reading The Struggle Within
The Yorkshire 3 Peaks trek soon seemed to have come around. It had definitely come around far too quickly especially given how I had felt over the past couple of weeks. It all seemed to coincide with the sports massage I had at the end of the Wiggle Yorkshire Tour Sportive but since then … Continue reading Yorkshire 3 Peaks Trek (25 miles) 5 September 2015
Less than a week after the Yorkshire Tough Mudder, it was time for some cycling through the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. When I originally registered for the event I thought that I would have been much further on with my fitness and would have spent much more time on my bike than has been the case. … Continue reading Wiggle Yorkshire Tour Sportive 8 August 2015
Tough Mudder Obstacle Course Race 2 August 2015 It soon seemed to have come around since the last event even though it had been a few weeks since Total Warrior. I had been training hard over that time and had managed to stay illness free so things had started to improve at the gym. The … Continue reading Tough Mudder Obstacle Course Race 2 August 2015
The lovely people at Blurt had asked everyone recently to say what depression looked like to them. Since I sent in my response I've been thinking about it and there are quite a few pictures that I could choose to show what depression looks like to me but when I was putting some pictures together … Continue reading What depression looks like to me
Even though it was only a week since the last event, I felt pretty good when I woke up to get ready for Total Warrior. I’d managed to stay injury and illness free since the Water Wipeout and had managed to get some good, solid training in during the week so I was ready to … Continue reading Total Warrior Obstacle Course Race 28 June 2015
When I woke up on race day I was feeling pretty good. I wasn’t feeling ill or carrying any injuries so it was a good start compared to some of the previous events. Admittedly after all of the illness that I’ve had since I started my year of challenges and the days lost in training … Continue reading X-Runner Water Wipeout Obstacle Course Race 20 June 2015
On Sunday night I spend an hour watching a man on a bike cycle around a track. There was no-one else riding at the same time, there were no hills, just a man and his machine going around the oval track. I realise that it wouldn’t be everyone’s idea of fun but I was absolutely … Continue reading Bicycle Race
The day had come about a little too soon for my liking. After the Endurer Dash it was all too obvious that I wasn’t really in the shape that I had hoped I would be for the start of the mud runs and it had proved to be much harder than I was expecting. I … Continue reading X-Runner Wild Thing Mud Run 18 April 2015
The training blog has been updated and a new page has been added for the completed challenges. Less than 2 weeks to go until the X-Runner Wild Thing Mud Run - looks like the obstacles are going to be even more of a challenge than the Endurer Dash. If you want to sponsor any of … Continue reading Keep the conversation going
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