Woody Wonders

  Create some 'constants' in your life  to help get through the bumpy bits As you know, I tend to write blogs from the heart and in terms of situations, experiences or people that I have come across that week.  I'm not a 'professional blogger' so I don't have next month's list of blogs all sorted and ready to go.  I write it off the cuff each week from notes I've made in numerous note books, on post-its and on my phone, but this week I was very tempted to write something vague and general and not make it as personal because quite honestly, I didn't want to mention this week's events.  However because of the person I am , I didn't think it would be very genuine of me to do that.  This week has been very challenging as I've not only had to contend with a busy work week but I've also been extremely worried about Mr Bob.  He's been in severe pain, unable to walk more than a few steps and at one point I feared it might be meningitis. ...

Our lives are constantly evolving so we have to re-focus when our circumstances change Around 10 years ago I was at the peak of my fitness, I was never a great runner but I was a decent runner and even won a few prizes in local races.  A few years ago I noticed that my times weren't as good despite feeling like I was still putting in the effort.  I used numerous excuses at first such  as 'well, I've had a busy week / not trained as much / not eaten as well etc etc'.   It took me some time to realise and accept that my times were getting worse because I'd been running for 20+ years, I'd hit my peak, maintained it for a good few years but I was now coming down the other side.   This had zero reasons to do with my age by the way, I'd simply reached my own physical limitations over the period of time I'd been running.  You can start exercising in your 50's, 60's and beyond and still see huge improvements.  Don't ever use age as a...