• Lifestyle

    How To: Motivate Yourself To Do Exercise

    My fitness routine falls into three categories: sedentary (shh, I’m watching Gilmore Girls), being active and proper exercise. Being active is taking the stairs rather than the escalator or walking to a destination rather than driving. Then there’s proper exercise. The type that turns your skin a shade of pillar box red and makes your muscles ache for days afterwards.

  • Hebden Bridge,  Lifestyle

    If I only could, I’d be running up that hill…

    When can you call yourself a runner? After 6 months, running 4 times a week? A year? Oh. Not after the first 3 runs then? Ahem. Well, I might have told a few people in passing that I’ve started running. I blurted out to the GP this week when she asked if I exercised “Yes. Yes, I do!” I said, with a sense of smug satisfaction. I didn’t get a lollypop. So yes, I have started running. Why? Well, I…