About

This blog is about finding your fit. It’s about achieving the impossible and finding adventure in every day life.

I have always toyed with exercise, cycling to work in my thirties, entering the occasional 10k and even the London marathon in 2006. I would swim when my son had his swimming lesson, run when he was playing rugby. However, after training for an event, I often went months without running again.

Then life got even busier, working full-time, a teenager at home and packing up a flat to move to Dubai left little time for consistent physical activity.

When we moved to Dubai, in 2014, I knew I needed to get fit. I joined a meet-up group and was fairly active. I started running in more 5k and 10k events, knowing that having a goal would keep me training.

I had fancied doing a triathlon for years. We moved to Abu Dhabi in 2015 but it took me another 18 months to finally enter my first triathlon.

I found a free first sprint triathlon plan online and finished my first event in February 2017 completing a 750m swim, 20k bike and 5k run.

A personal crisis left me wallowing and my fitness declined over the next six to 12 months with only sporadic exercise. I decided to train for my second triathlon, another sprint in Abu Dhabi in October 2018. I haven’t looked back since. I became addicted to triathlon and more recently endurance sport in general and yoga.

At the age of 53, I feel fitter than throughout my thirties and forties and am achieving goals I never thought possible. This blog is about fitness over forty and over fifty. How finding my fitness has given me confidence in other areas of my life and the knowledge that what may seem impossible is possible with consistency, hard work and some like-minded friends.