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✌🏼 tips to improve running performance when you have all the gear but no idea 🤔💡 . . . I’m currently struggling with the opposite tbh 🙈 Arguably, I have some idea what I’m doing, but 100% lacking in the kit department. My newest running trainers were quite literally run into the ground within three months in Australia, and were consequently binned. The ones I kept in the UK feel past their expiry date for sure. No profile left, no cushioning, and a few holes are a sure give away that they do NOT belong on the road or trails anymore!! My new trainers are somewhere in the covid loop, waiting to be delivered... So, do as I say not as I do - and ensure you have safe kit before going loco with your running training 🤩💪🏼 . . . TIP 1: Intervals. If you want to improve, stop chasing a certain race time or distance. Work in intervals to minimise stress on the body by accumulating a lot of weekly mileage, and build up stamina through intervals instead. These can be switching between a walk or a run, or a slow and a fast run. You can build intervals up over time, and they are a great indirect way to improve ‘race times’. Disclaimer: There are only virtual races this season. So you may as well compete against yourself to improve. By doing intervals! . . . TIP 2: If you have fancy gear, but no idea how to utilise it to improve your training, try for example training in a specific heart rate zone of your fitness tracker. Let’s say you aim to run between HR 150-170bpm. You will see over time that you can go faster, but still stay under 170bpm, whereas before your heart rate would have been higher going this fast. This is because your cardiovascular health has improved and your heart is able to pump more blood with one contraction - your heart muscle got stronger! Training in a heart rate zone approaches running from a health perspective and focusses on highlighting improvements in CV health, instead of mindlessly pushing for a certain time or distance, often at the expense of injuries/ lack of recovery time. . . . Both ways of thinking are perhaps new to some recreational runners, but try heart rate guided training and incorporate intervals and observe the change 🤓💡

OMG went for a walk and bumped into Lisa today 🤩🙌🏼🥰 @lisalocketinmypocket . . . Day made 🥳💕 . . . Can’t wait to catch up properly soon non-socially distanced 😆 . . . It was a lovely Sunday for going for a long walk in the forrest today 🌳 🤩 💆🏻‍♀️ . . . #ditancedfriends #fitness #nogymnoproblem #daymade #walking #forrest #stayactive #happiness

Friends who remind you of your worth 💕🙏🏻 @no_whey_rosie . . . I’m so excited knowing Rosie is moving to Dundee this summer and I I get to spend lots of time with her soon 🥰 . . . I would’ve never expected people would be so aggressive towards me returning temporarily to where I consider to be home 🏡 . . . Travel to the UK is only for UK nationals. Your travel was non-essential. You put others at risk. You should’ve gone back to your own country. You did not adhere to current restrictions. Stop posting what you do. Not everyone is as lucky as you. You need to quarantine. Go back to where you came from. . . . I haven’t done anything wrong. I haven’t left Tayport since I arrived on Monday. I go for a daily walk early in the morning. I work from home. I applied, worked hard for and was granted the indefinite right to remain in the UK. I hence have the same rights to live in and travel to the UK as any British citizen. I am keeping myself and others safe. I am adhering to government guidelines. . . . I came back here because Scotland was my home for 10 years. People here care about me and want me here. How dare some suggest I am no longer welcome? . . . I’d like to see them walking in my shoes and see if they’d still message with abuse. My family lives in Norway, but I can’t travel to Norway right now because I‘m German. It‘s pointless entering Germany as I have no relatives there. Staying in Australia would mean being alone in my house working from home until 2021 without social network as I arrived in the middle of a pandemic. . . This isn’t a ‘I don’t like the colour of your shoes’ situation. This is a ‘I don’t think you should be in our country’ situation. And it’s not ok. . . . And I’m NOT ok with it. . . . So much positivity and ‘we are all in this together’ everywhere. And some people manage to point towards a piece of paper you were given at birth, implying you don’t belong now. . . . Shame on you. Have we learnt nothing from history? ...or from the current situation? . . . Kindness matters. Compassion matters. Selflessness matters. Positivity matters. Caring matters. Community matters. Feelings matter. Health matters. . . . Happiness matters 💆🏻‍♀

Really missing this little button 🐶 😩 #sirknox . . Walks are not the same without Knox. . . No Knox cuddles. . . No therapet access. . . . @angel_lg sure you can’t allow Knox to come visit on staff travel? ✈️ 🤔 . . . Sending big cuddles to the other side of the world 🇦🇺 💋 🤗

Should you suffer from travel envy right now please swipe 😷 . . . Departure from Doha this AM was gorgeous, but that’s about it 🤷🏻‍♀️ . . . Despite claiming to enforce social distancing, planes are mobbed 😕 Small aircrafts on long haul from Perth to Doha and from Doha to Manchester to cram in as many passengers as possible in addition to remarkable flight prices is what flying looks like for us. . . . No shops are open to even purchase a drink at the airport, we had to look very long to find airport toilets that were open in Doha, and cabin crew is dressed like... well... pandemic-appropriate (and quite rightly so) 😷👏🏼 . . . Looking forward to eventually arriving back in Scotland after 20+ hours in the air and a road trip home from Manchester 🙃 . . . #travel #qatar #doha #qatarairways #skyline #stayhome #staysafe #view #middleeast

G’day and carpe diem from down under 🙋🏽‍♀️ 🇦🇺 🌊☀️ . . . I have one essential question... How is the Australian winter superior to the Scottish summer? 😳😎👌🏼 . . . #tapsaff #beachlife #winterwonderland #surferparadise #perthisok #wa #australia #phdjourney #aswiminthesea

The end of another day in paradise, with Sir Knox 🇦🇺 ☀️ 🐶 . . . Making the most of the sunny days right now and enjoying living in the moment 💆🏻‍♀️ . . . Dogs make life a hell of a lot better too, fact! How lucky are we that Knox likes us 🥰 Must be all the cheese we fed him 😁😇 . . . Until tomorrow paradise! 🏝 #doglife #wa #australia #winterfun

Social distancing? No problem ✅ . . . God did we have a good holiday in March before all of this kicked off ☀️ 🏝 😎 Temperatures are not quite tanning-worthy anymore just now as it’s officially winter here, but shorts and short sleeves are definitely still ok 🥳 . . . I’m so positively surprised by the ‘winter’ months over here. Really nothing like the north of Europe 😀🙌🏼 . . . These sun loungers were the best investment when we got here - £20 in total and the use we got out of them was excellent 🥳 Would give Bunnings a 10/10 for price, however a 3/10 for comfort at most 😂🙈 . . . Another day in paradise with home working completed, and the best part is still dog walks with Knox and @donnamdownie 🙌🏼 . . . #beach #relax #holiday #beforecorona #wa #tanning #australia #visitperth #perthisok #sirknox #happydays #wfh

Did you know that helmets are compulsory in WA? Only when cycling that is... 🚲 . . . That was your fun fact of the day. Wish we were back on Rottnest Island getting sun stroke on three-gear rental bikes 🥳 . . . We were on the last ferry to Rottnest in March. It is now closed off and used as a natural quarantine area for cruise ship passengers and new international arrivals. . . . That was your not-so-fun fact for the day. Rottnest is absolutely beautiful, and the resorts used for quarantine usually cost an arm and a leg to book for one night too 🙊 . . . #wa #rottnest #australia #visitperth #quokka #helmetsarecool #rottnestisland #perth #holiday #stayactive #cycling #bikelife

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