Live life on the wild side

 Hey guys,  Jess here with another short blog, so in the post birth winning at mama life phase I decided I was going to focus on getting back to fitness and with a tough mudder around the corner (August) I decided to set myself some smaller target races, one of which was a 5 km race.  I have already managed my way around a park run, and decided that as long as I ran as much of it as I could a 5 km race wasn't to much of a challenge, So i set about finding a local one.  There was a 5k race going on not to far from me and there was enough time to get ready for it, so we made plans with the family for a day out and little man cheered on his mama's first 5 km back.  We decided to take on the wallingford thames run, picking the 5k route that took you through the lovely little town of wallingford, and on parts of the thames path, it started and ended at the local school and there was a 10km option to which was 2 laps of the 5km course, this made is great for spectator...

(Contains amazon affiliate links)  Hey guys,  Welcome back to the blog and if you are new here welcome to the blog, here I share my adventures as a runner, and a mum as I navigate work, life and everything in between.  Over the weekend we went on a family trip to experience some camping, this was for two reasons, a trial before some future events with camping thrown in and new adventures for the little man.  The adventure started before we even hit the campsite, it started with the packing, packing to go camping as a couple is very different to packing to go camping as a couple with a newborn, there are more clothes, you have to consider feeding and decide the best way to ensure warmth through the night.  Packing clothes meant packing plenty of spares, and plenty of layers, we kitted out with at least three changes of clothes, 2 night time outfits in case a change was needed and warmer layers to add if the temperature change, along with nappies, wipes, and back ...