Two years on after a diagnosis of Type One Diabetes, I can honestly say life has changed.  Not for the worse, not for the better, but it has changed.  For one thing, the sight of blood no longer makes my tummy heave and my legs wobble. The journey when your child is diagnosed with Type…

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser, Aldi. All opinions are mine alone. I take my food pretty seriously nowadays, and apart from the occasional fall off the Paleo wagon, everything that I chew down tends to be natural, good, clean food.  I have read so much on nutrition over…

If you put CrossFit into Google you will find references to elite fitness, strength, and people who will push their fitness to the extreme. Since joining CrossFit I have found this to be the case.  Every workout I do at the box leaves me impressed and astounded at the sheer strength of the men and…

Its all about the community… When I was first thinking about joining CrossFit I read that sentence in various articles a lot.  I didn’t understand what it meant. I have been members of gyms before, and seen small communities spring up.  A few strongmen in a corner, a few ladies who lunch after zumba.  Golfers…

The car was full of banter as we headed up a the road towards North Oxford.  It was the type of idle chatter that only originates from nerves. There were three of us in the car, all of us lingering around the forty age mark, some of us closer than others. We were all about…