• Running is more than just exercise

    Everything you ever wanted to know about yourself you can learn in 26.2 miles.

    Lori Culnane

  • Keep Running

    First you feel like dying. Then you feel reborn.

    Asics

  • The pack life

    If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give only two of them.

    Phil Pastoret

  • Just breathe

    The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind & the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

    B.K.S. Iyengar

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This is a guest post written by Sarah from The Sleep Advisor.  Sleep deprivation is a massive problem in today’s fast-paced world. We switch off the light but can’t seem to switch off the whirlwind of thoughts, worries and anxieties flying around our minds. What is meant to be a relaxing time, a time for your body to rest and your mind to become calm, becomes quite the opposite. Your thoughts start churning, your mind keeps racing and you find yourself far from Sleepytown. The result? Well, lots of problems, really. From obesity to heart disease, diabetes to depression – poor quality sleep has theRead More →

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Finish time: 2h 56min 32sec “Performance is directly related to one’s willingness to experience pain and cope with it” – I don’t know if I heard this somewhere else or my brain became too philosophical during the marathon, but it ran in my mind continuously during the race. And it’s so true. The faster you are, the more pain you will have to deal with and your brain will try to convince you to slow down by all means possible. And in the end performance is all about how you cope with all this. I started to train at the beginning of the summer andRead More →

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Alin and I started budgeting and taking our finances seriously about 5 years ago. I can’t claim that I know everything there is to know on the topic, but I got pretty damn good at it. We have no debt and we’re able to have some luxurious experiences once in a while because we still live well below our means. We are currently on a journey to save £25k until March 2019 and even though September was difficult, we managed to stay on track and we achieved our saving goals in both August and September. The next 2 months should be chill, everything is settling andRead More →

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The second month of our savings challenge is gone. If all of them pass by so quickly we won’t even notice when it’s March 2019 and we need to draw the line! If you’re new here, we decided to set ourselves the goal of saving £25000 by March ’19, which means around £1390 every month. If you think that’s a lot, you’re not the only one! If you want to know how we did in August, here’s the blog post. September was a concern because it had one big challenge – we went on a 4 day break in Stockholm. Well, break might be aRead More →

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Remember my rules of running better races and mistakes I no longer make? Well, I did two of those in beautiful Stockholm 🙂 Finish time: 1h 21m 42sec Elevation First, it was the course elevation profile. For some reason, my early research on Strava about the Stockholm Half Marathon only revealed about 70m of elevation overall. I still don’t understand how can the same course ran at the same time can reveal such different elevation results? 70m was nothing, so I viewed this race as an easy one. No longer felt easy when I read the official race leaflets which revealed no less than 370mRead More →

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Expenses we refuse to have A mortgage At the moment, owning a house is almost impossible for us financially. The prices in the UK are way above what any human being would consider normal, so we wouldn’t want to purchase a home here. Ideally, we would find a cheap home in another country that we could buy with cash, but we’re not there yet. A house would also mean that we can’t move anymore. We like exploring different places, living there for a while, but then move on. I don’t like growing roots. 4 years is enough. From a financial point of view, having aRead More →

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As a minimalist, I’m committed to only making purchases when I really need them and not when there are clearances, or the products look nice or when a new version is out for sale. But it hasn’t always been like this. A tale of two pairs Back in 2015, both myself and Andreea started to train with our buddies at the Marathon Store in Bishopsgate. They had a running club there sponsored by adidas. One of the nicest offerings was the fact that they were giving free running trainers to try during group runs. The trainers were top of line adidas Ultra Boost and IRead More →

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It’s our second month of the saving £25k in 18 months journey. August went well, but it’s a constant effort. Every day we do some more research, we hunt offers and plan our spending carefully. We started using a few cashback apps and websites and these are our favourites. Quidco How it works: Before shopping online on your favourite retailers websites, you check Quidco to see if there’s any offers available (e.g 2% cashback). When you find something suitable for you, you proceed to the retailer’s website, but through Quidco so they can track your purchase. You do your shopping as usual and Quidco willRead More →

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My weight goes up 3-5 pounds every now and then depending on many factors – life changes like moving home, how stressed I am, injury or illness that prevents me from exercising or how well I sleep. But there are 3 things that for me are a sure thing when it comes to gaining weight. 1. Boredom This is not much of a problem if I’m at home, there is always something to do. But if I’m at work and for some reason I don’t have an immediate task at hand, the first thing I think about is food. I lie to myself and sayRead More →

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Ohh, it’s almost September. Hello, Autumn, I missed you. But before getting excited about everything that’s coming up, let’s see how August went. It was the first month of our 18 months to £25k journey. At the beginning of the month we really didn’t know what to expect. We blindly set the goal of £1389 a month and just hoped for the best. Read on to see if we made it. We focused on 3 big things this month: food, transportation and monthly subscriptions. 1. Food First of all, we set a weekly budget of £40 plus a monthly online shop of £50 (for aRead More →