Live life on the wild side

 Hi!  It's been a while, actually it's been over a month..... So life got a bit busy, work got busy, and the weekends just kinda disappeared...but here's what I have been up to over the last month and a bit!  January was my last time at working working in my old place, before I took on a new role somewhere else, that started in feb, but in between the job changes, we also went on a training camp over to #girona!  We enjoyed long rides, trail runs, fantastic coffee and just taking in the sites. The pace of life is different there and the days are more at ease, it took a bit of adjusting when we got back!  Once we got back I started my new job, I've been in it about a week and a half now and it's quite possibly the most epic start to a job I've ever had. Despite everything going on its an exciting role and I'm so happy to be there.  We wrapped up this week by getting up at 4am and driving 2 hours to go for a run and a ride up a big hill 🙃 apparently it's ...

 3.30 am alarm rings.... turn it off and roll back over, not ready to wake up yet, doze back off and eventually drag myself out of bed just before 4 am.  Spending time getting ready for the next adventure, running kit on, breakfast made and coffee in a take away cup, pack the bag with bits i need and sort out my 33 fuel gel for the run, sort out some tail wind and water and they gather it all together, 4.20 ish heading out the door off on our next adventure. Its dark out, not to cold, but not overly warm, bundle the bags in the car and put the bits in the front we need access to and then off we go, today we are going to wales, off to hike up Pen Y Fan, one of the three mountains/peaks i will be taking on in April, its and early start to get to our parking destination for 7 am, all in aid of an early start to the hike, the car journey is long and dark, but cosy with the layers of clothing.  Arriving at the storey arms car park we park up and jump out the car for a stretch ...

 Hey guys,  Welcome back to the adventure blog! A weekly Blog where I share with you my adventures through sports, fitness, life and everything in between! This week I want to share my first solo bike ride, well it's sort of my first solo bike ride.  Okay so background check, its not my first time riding solo on a bike, I use to do it to and from work, and I've been round the park several times on my own, and growing up back home I was always out on the bike, but this was my first solo bike ride that was just a bike ride, not a commute, but a self navigated bike ride, on a road bike, by myself.  I am not as confident a cyclist as i was growing up, but growing up I always stuck to paths or trails and there were a lot less cars, where I live now is busier for cars and I generally try to stay off the path unless its a cycle path, this has meant working my way through building my confidence on a bike.  Chris has taken me out on several bike rides, some long ones som...

Rest and Recover The week after brutal was a quiet week, focused on rest and recovery, restful days, easy sessions and plenty of sleep.  The day after race day was a challenge in the way of walking, added with the combination of more than two flights of stairs a day because of my job at the time and movement was more tricky, I think it finally took till about Thursday to be walking like a normal person. Running was swapped out for gentle walks, stretching was added throughout the days during long periods of time waiting round and lots of focus on massage as well.  I did manage to get out for a run through the week through, a short social on Thursday more walk than run and a short run on Sunday, a good way to start getting back to some sense of normal, recovery also saw me prioritise more time on sleep, getting to bed at a decent time and because of the change of shifts more focus on a lie in and less focus on early starts, the increase in sleep was a huge benefit to my recover...

 Well what an adventure! I mean where do I start, let's take it back to race night.  Friday 9th September. We are back at the hotel, food has been eaten and we are packed, I'm still frantically trying to figure out what I have forgotten, but I haven't, I have everything I need, We pop on the TV, try to settle down and get an early night, Its an early 4 am start for us tomorrow.  Saturday 10th September.   Race day- 4 am alarm rings, weary eyes eventually open, we get dressed, fill the bottles, make sure everything is packed and make sure all the chargers have been unplugged. The nerves have kicked in, I feel sick, I honestly don't know if I can do this.  4.40 am we head to the car, laden with bags, heavier due to the water bottles now being full, the drive is long to the start, or at least it feels that way, we get to the parking and in my haste I mess up the payment then need to try and do it again, only I haven't pushed the button and now I'm trying to do it i...

  The start of the end..... Well not the actual end, in fact this was not suppose to be the end at all, this was just to be a stepping stone in the journey to the end.  If you are a regular follower of our YouTube, Instagram or Facebook you will have known we took on the #DragonDuathlon, a race we never finished, a race that runs every two years, alternating direction, north to south, then south to north, I say it runs....It ran.... We made the decision after having to pull out of the race that we would wait the 4 years, so we could redo the race we targeted, north to south, We had already spent a little under 2 years training for the first one then a further 4 training and working toward the second, around the pandemic, restrictions, broken collar bones, a year of no running with a hip injury and just keeping on top of day to day life. 6 years, a lot of our life we put on hold so we could go back to #DefeatTheDragon. Long story short the Dragon isn't happening any more offici...