I want to fit in a rugby shirt

Before I talk about my continuing efforts to get fit I just wanted to thank everyone who read my last blog post which described losing our first son to stillbirth. Thank you for the lovely comments and for taking the time to read it. So back to my tales of trying to get fit and training for the Bubble Run. When I last spoke about my training regime I was just recovering from my first Park Run and the Bubble Run was now only a week away. My plan in the week leading up to the run was to go for one or two more runs to make sure I'd recovered from the hill at the Ashton Court Park Run and be ready for the Bubble Run. After all it was the main reason for starting the training!! Things change pretty quick and one phone call after the Park Run meant my plans for the week would have to be changed. Instead my training would consist of cycling to and from work every day. If I'm honest I was happy enough with that. I figured that rather than training just twice in the week I'd get...

A change of pace for my latest blog. My last posts have been about my adventures in running and cycling and generally trying to get fit. This post isn't about that. In the UK it is 'Baby Loss Awareness' week. Every singe day in the UK, 15 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth.  On 5th January 2004 our son Thomas was one of those 15. This our story. First a short history. My wife, Denise, and I had married in November 2000 and on our honeymoon had decided we would try and start our family straight away. So we started trying, we both figured that within a few months we'd see a positive pregnancy test and everything would be great. It didn't work like that. The first few weeks of trying turned into months and the first few months turned into a year without a positive test. It was beginning to get a bit frustrating. After two years of trying with no success we decided to go to the doctors and get ourselves tested to see if there was any reason we couldn...