Why I can’t settle during my runs home from work

I have been quite successful at walking home and not to work every day for the past month and I enjoy the hour-long walk each morning and evening. I know I am getting a good bit of exercise and it is interesting to see things around me. But, for some reason, the run home from...

The positives and negatives of running in the dark

Happy day folks! Happy happy day! I am posting this on a Sunday (run day), but you might be reading it on a different day. So I hope you have enjoyed or are enjoying this day. A bit too cringe? Well, that is my specialty! This week I want to chat about running in the...

Dealing with that tummy rumble when running

This might be one of my more light-hearted posts (see my post about falling over when out on a run) But since I have been a runner I have noticed one thing all of these years, how hard it is to judge what the dreaded tummy rumble means mid-run… You may or may not know...

I am a slow runner and that’s okay for now.

If you have read my blog before you will know my love of running, if you are new and also like running have a gander over at my running page in the bar above. Also, if you have been following my blog for a bit, you will also know I am trying to lose weight...

Why can’t get comfortable running 5km?

When Victoria and I started dating just under two years ago she knew she wanted to get into running and I was more than keen to have a running buddy as almost all of my runs have been on my lonesome. I had gained a lot of weight before the relationship and to today (don’t...

4 tips to help you get your running back on track

Running is a weird and unpredictable beast sometimes. You can run often and you get good times with very minor improvements on each run or all of a sudden you get a personal best by over a minute. There are also the times when you do not run for a week and all of a...

My Fitness Goals 2019

Last year was basically a nothing year regarding my weight loss as I only got truly serious and saw progress in December, so a bit late, but I have to consider the positives with that and see it as me starting 2019 a little earlier. I didn’t get where I wanted to and that is...

Mo Running 2018 review

At the end of November, I ran in the Mo running event in Stormont in Belfast with Victoria. It was great to support such a good cause! Have a little read about how it went for me! The training that never was So my training was meant to be very in depth and have lots...

Aftershokz headphone review

A while ago I realised that I would have to give up my headphones when I was running in a race as new laws in running in the UK and Northern Ireland stated that they would be banned and participants using them would be disqualified. So I wondered if that was it for me and...

Exercising while on holiday in New York and Toronto

WHAT! Are you stupid Gilliland!? Enjoy the holiday and relax, eat well and just calm yourself down son. These are the responses I am figuring I might get from the title of this post and they may be true, but I don’t like just chilling and doing nothing all day. I like being active. I...