FionaOutdoors

If anyone imagines that yoga is a soft option you might want to think again. I have been a regular attender at Yoga Jo‘s Ashtanga-style yoga classes in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, for some three years and it still amazes me how tired my arm, shoulder, core and leg muscles are after every session.  Even when [...]

Of course, you knew there would be Part 2, after Part 1 was published earlier this week! While part 1 focused on the physical agony of turbo training to boost anaerobic and aerobic threshold, Part 2 describes the physical agony of swimming to exhaustion, and for, seemingly, the same gains Discussing this concept with the [...]

I can take or leave swimming, and for much of my adulthood I’ve left it. I always get too cold in swimming pools, then I get too bored, then I hate the getting out bit, and I really dislike my hair going all curly and frizzy after being attacked by the chlorine. So the past [...]

Over the last 10 days of so I’ve written a few blogs about the Lanzarote sports heaven called Club La Santa. Fantastic cycling and a Club La Santa High. I had a fantastic time, but there was one event that I was not looking forward to at all: Open Water Swimming. I had hoped the Glasgow [...]

Now, now I don’t want any jokes about my boy-ishness! While I won’t be offended I expect my boyfriend will! Thanks to the nice guys at Discover Swimming I have just taken loan of my Sailfish triathlon wetsuit and after trying on a few sizes, both male and female, the expert opinion is that I [...]

A few of us outdoorsy women were chatting on Twitter and Facebook about the distinct lack of women in the outdoors. I’ve blogged about this before. I’ve even taken to counting the number of women walkers or cyclists out and about when I’m bagging Munros or putting in the road bike miles. The conclusion: There [...]

Little Miss Outdoors will thank me in the long-term. I’m sure of it! Every week from the age of 4 to 9 I insisted that she attended “proper” swimming lessons. She couldn’t see the point of getting wet and cold and having to do numerous lengths of crawl, breaststroke, backstroke etc. She hated getting out [...]

While 20 or so of our fellow Glasgow Tri Club athletes headed out to the warmer climes of Club La Santa on Lanzarote today, eight of those left behind in Scotland braved a chilly and sleety run session tonight. Led by Major Tom, aka the Captain of Communication and one of our fab coaches, we [...]

It’s lighter, ever so slightly warmer (on some days) and there’s the faintest whiff of hope in the air as finally we all allow ourselves to look forward to spring and summer. So there’s no better time to embrace your shiny new 2010 Get Fit for Summer campaign. Whether it’s walking, running, swimming or cycling [...]

Swimming is a tricky and frustrating business. I don’t mean the leisurely kind of swimming that I used to quite enjoy but the swimming that is supposed to give me a great start at the beginning of a triathlon event. So many of the people who do triathlon appear to have been swimming like dolphins [...]