Landlocked Mermaid

With the days getting longer and (hopefully) warmer, my feet are starting to itch for adventures. We have some diving trips coming up as part of our Sport Diver course, but there are other outdoor adventures my partner and I like to take. Over our relationship we have been on many, often pushing me well outside of my comfort zone. For some context, my comfort zone is: On the sofa, bowl of crisps, playing Final Fantasy IX.  Regardless, I am grateful for a new found appreciation of the great outdoors and look forward to getting my boots muddy this year. Adventures with the family. Photo by Charis, whilst on a bike! In my immediate area, and I mean literally out my back door, I can walk through the countryside. Being in Shropshire, we have lots of public footpaths which pass through our town. Some are down the canal, some are through fields, some are down by the river. We take advantage of all of them. The River Tern is just a stone's throw away from our house, which is

Ordinarily, I would be taking this opportunity to talk about diving. But as it is way too cold to dive in semi-dry suits in the UK at the moment, my only update is that people loose an alarming amount of plasters in pools. So I thought I'd talk about another aspect of my life: adventure and fitness. As I have mentioned in the past, my partner and I love a good adventure and we are hoping to have plenty this year. We are also entering a few running events this year and are actually taking training seriously this year. Our town hosts a 10k road race every year; so far my training has consisted of two runs in January and then one the week before the event. I have had little to no improvement over the years! But this year we are upping our game. There is a schedule. It is colour coded. And it is on a whiteboard, so less wasteful than paper! It took some serious brain power to get those boxes even! And to further my dedication to my fitness this year, I have even boug