Share your traditional meals and kitchen creations with people from the other side of the world. — We eat everyday but breakfast in Belarus is a different dish to what is served up in Mozambique. Wherever you are in the world, this is a chance to take a break from your usual topics and find out what’s cooking in Medium writers’ kitchens all over the world. You…

Change your thoughts, change your wealth — Lately I’ve been reading a plethora of articles on how much our thoughts affect our income. A lot of these thoughts that run around in our heads are subconscious, and by that I mean they are automatic thoughts we’ve picked up from life experience, our parents, our peers etc., that…

No need to become a pretzel to improve your split times — It’s no secret that adding in cross-training to your running schedule makes you a better runner. By preventing injury and strengthening complimentary muscles, your running times increase and you get to train for longer, and longer, and longer distances. Yoga is a brilliant addition to your running regime as on…

Easy standing stretches that you can do anywhere at anytime — It’s no secret that running as a high-impact activity puts a lot of strain on your muscles, and it’s important to push through a bit of pain to keep on track for dropping your running pace. But there are other things you can do off the pavement to also give…

An easy vegetarian dinner with pizzazz — It’s autumn in Australia, and in the southern states where the temperature actually drops somewhat, chestnuts abound. I’m in more of a sub-tropical bit of this wide brown land, so had to get my hands on chestnuts shipped from country Victoria where they - you know- actually grow. Prepping the…

Target your heels before they target you — Heel pain, or plantar fasciitis, is not something you discover until you get a few running miles under your belt. All of a sudden, this new world opens up where stabbing heel pain can become so intense that it’s difficult to walk let alone enter a marathon. Mention plantar fasciitis…

How to keep your knees going the extra miles — So many of us have been there before — miles and miles into your run, hitting a good pace, and feeling like you have lots of fuel in the tank, only to feel the beginning of a niggle that just won’t go away. So many runners can relate to that…

Four ingredients, Vegan, and with healthy olive oil (not vegetable oil) — Needing to get to the abundance of herbs growing in my garden before the grasshoppers did, I decided to pick off some good leaves and make something quick and easy with them. Pesto. So many store-bought varieties are made with vegetable oils which actually go rancid pretty quickly and aren’t…

Life’s ups and downs condensed into one day — As we scaled some slippery rocks to reach Tarn Shelf, our heads poked through the thin clouds that had been rushing at us for the last 20 minutes. In that time, my five-year-old had developed a strange sense of steely determination that I rarely saw from her whenever we wandered…