RAPT Movement

This will sound mad because I’m a run coach, but I barely ran for a month this summer and I don’t regret it. Even though I’ve got some big personal goals this Autumn.

This might sound wild, but here’s 3 reasons why:

1. I was having an awesome time on a road trip with my family and our best friends. Nuff said.
2. In between the fun, we’ve moved our whole life back to the UK. I still have 2 weeks living out of a suitcase before we move into our house, and 3 different places to visit. Again, nuff said.
3. Because rest isn’t the opposite of progress. It’s part of it.

I tell my clients this all the time: a full life sometimes means the plan has to change. It’s not the be all and end all to miss sessions when there’s a lot going on. And this summer I’ve had a lot on and wanted to enjoy it (and also really didn’t want to get eaten by a bear in BC).

Follow for more on training through real, full-life mum life, not the version with the mess edited out. And share this with a run mum who needs the reminder that missing sessions isn’t failing.

his will sound mad because I’m a run coach, but I barely ran for a month this summer and I don’t regret it. Even though I’ve got some big personal goals this Autumn.

This might sound wild, but here’s 3 reasons why:

1. I was having an awesome time on a road trip with my family and our best friends. Nuff said.
2. In between the fun, we’ve moved our whole life back to the UK. I still have 2 weeks living out of a suitcase before we move into our house, and 3 different places to visit. Again, nuff said.
3. Because rest isn’t the opposite of progress. It’s part of it.

I tell my clients this all the time: a full life sometimes means the plan has to change. It’s not the be all and end all to miss sessions when there’s a lot going on. And this summer I’ve had a lot on and wanted to enjoy it (and also really didn’t want to get eaten by a bear in BC).

Follow for more on training through real, full-life mum life, not the version with the mess edited out. And share this with a run mum who needs the reminder that missing sessions isn’t failing.

his will sound mad because I’m a run coach, but I barely ran for a month this summer and I don’t regret it. Even though I’ve got some big personal goals this Autumn.

This might sound wild, but here’s 3 reasons why:

1. I was having an awesome time on a road trip with my family and our best friends. Nuff said.
2. In between the fun, we’ve moved our whole life back to the UK. I still have 2 weeks living out of a suitcase before we move into our house, and 3 different places to visit. Again, nuff said.
3. Because rest isn’t the opposite of progress. It’s part of it.

I tell my clients this all the time: a full life sometimes means the plan has to change. It’s not the be all and end all to miss sessions when there’s a lot going on. And this summer I’ve had a lot on and wanted to enjoy it (and also really didn’t want to get eaten by a bear in BC).

Follow for more on training through real, full-life mum life, not the version with the mess edited out. And share this with a run mum who needs the reminder that missing sessions isn’t failing.

There’s a runner in Toronto right now deciding whether to run through the worst air quality in the world.

Don’t.

Do these 5 things instead.

1. Strength train. Squats, lunges, step ups. Same engine, none of the smoke.
2. Treadmill, if you’ve got one. Filtered air, air con, the same heart rate zones you’d hit outside.
3. Mobility. Hips, ankles, thoracic spine. The work you always say you don’t have time for. Today you do.
4. Core. Fifteen minutes. Planks, dead bugs, side planks. Small, but it counts.
5. Rest, properly. Orange air quality alert. Heat warning. Both at once. This isn’t soft. It’s the only call a good coach would make.

Your training block doesn’t need today’s session. It needs you not choking on wildfire smoke to prove a point.

Follow for the days training doesn’t go to plan, not just the days it does.