And just like that, Movember 2025 is done!

With 150km ran, 10800 reps done across 30 circuits, and £755 raised, tomorrow marks a day of rest and recovery...

But being back to regular running and daily excersise, though hard, has made me ultimately feel better in myself, and has given me a renewed desire to stay active and to want to excerise on a regular basis.

So when all is said and done, thank you Movember 2025 for being a tough ****er, and I look forwards to seeing what next year's will bring!

A very wet second to last run done, and only 20km left to do tomorrow.

The £750 goal has now officially been hit too, meaning tomorrow's run can hopefully round things off nicely!

15km run, 40km left.

Needing to finish what I started.

Hello Folks!

We are into the last week of Movember 2025!

With 55km left to run, and 7 more circuits left to action, we are just £80 shy of the £750 I hope to reach by the end of the month.

And saying that, Pringles are once again matching £20 donations tomorrow from 9:00am!

So, tomorrow would be a fantastic time to make a cheeky donation, as just two £20 donations would get me to that £750 milestone with a few days to spare!

So one last push!

After a long day of work followed by a run followed by a circuit, Yorkshire Tea is the only way! We are now to 95km of the 150km, and less than ten circuits left! And I am looking forward to a rest!

As we approach the latter part of the month, here's to celebrating International Mens Day!

This week has been off to a slowish start run wise, but we'll be looking at picking things back up later in the week!

Not quite the 15km I'd hoped for, but another 10km bagged!

We are also within £100 of hitting the £750 goal, and as the UK Water Industry, we have raised over £17,000 for Movember!

Hello everyone! Today is officially the 1/2 way marker for this year's Movember challenge, and we are very proudly sat at £550 donations now, just £200 short of our target £750!

Thank you so so much for all the support so far - the donations, the words of encouragement, those of you who are running and doing parts of my daily workout in solidarity.

This morning I have made a bit of a hard decision - today was meant to be a 15km run and a daily circuit, but I have ultimately decided that today needs to be a rest day. The last couple of weeks has been so much fun but, alas, today I am putting my own health and body first, knowing that from advice given to me by the awesome coaches at Good Condition Fitness and Remedial Centre that you need to respond to what your body is telling you - and today it's telling me it needs a break...

What does that mean though? Well... the 15km run I will now be looking to do tomorrow or Monday depending, and I will slide other runs around should I need to - then with the circuit, I will be looking to spread the reps over the next six days, starting Monday, adding ten reps on to each excersise across Mon-Fri. This is not ideal, and a part of me's frustrated at throwing a towel in today, but previous experiences of sports related injuries have told me that nothing is worth pushing your body in ways it shouldn't be pushed.

There will be excersise today, but this will be a lot of recovery and remedial work - so you might hear my groans of pain from rolling and stretching echoing out across the streets of Lincolnshire at some point...

See you all again soon!

So after an 11.5hr day at work, tonight's 10km wins the hardest run yet - I am hurting in places I didn't know existed, very much feeling the build up of niggles now, and still have the chuffing circuit to do!

BUT, and this is a very big but, there were over £100 on donations today, which is blooming insane - so the total is now OFFICIALLY over £400, and over 1/2 of the way to the target £750.

I am honestly so beyond words on the support, and so so happy to be where I am at the 1/2 way marker for this year's Movember!

Another 10km bagged tonight, and my first sub 50 minute 10km of Movember 2025 - coming in at just under 49 minutes!

Another circuit down, and we played with close arm, wide arm, diamond, and spiderman pressups tonight for added fun

That's it, week one of Movember down!

I am chuffed to say that I am at 50km of 150km run, 9 of 30 circuits down, and over 1/3 of the way to my £750 donation goal!

On the second day, I wore a bowler hat; so on the 9th day, I wore a top hat.

I am very much starting to feel it now - the circuits feel harder and the legs feel heavier, but the mind still feels motivated!

Another 15km Saturday run through the gorgeous city of Lincoln. Stopped off for a cheeky selfie with the lovely Cathy too!

An early start today for our first AM run! Another 10km, and 53 minutes - we're edging closer to that sub 50, but are still a way off from my adulthood PB of 41.37, and my Lincoln 10km time of 44.24. But hey, I'm not in my 20s anymore...

So after a bit of a headache induced blip yesterday, and a truly pants circuit that didn't warrant posting about, today was back to a respectable circuit, headache free...

Hopefully, tomorrow will be headache free too, so I can post a decent 10km time (we are aiming for sub 50 minutes, we shall wait and see).

But day five is done, and we are 5/30 of the days down, and 1/3 of the way to my donation goal of £750 - that is something worth celebrating!

So, not that I am competitive in any way shape or form, but here are some early into the month scores on the doors for this year's official UK Water Industry Challenge...

Anglian Water is currently doing admirably, sitting in 4th place at the time of posting, and yours truly is #6, believe it or not, in the individuals donations raised rankings, having officially raised 1/3 of my desired £750 goal (though superseding that by the end of the month would be bloody marvellous)...

However, I think that Anglian Water can hit top spot before the end of the month, and further think that I can weasel my way up the individuals donations raised rankings to a hopeful top-three finish...

But I need your help to get me there! Every donation made goes to the phenomenal cause that is Movember, and further spurs on my madcap venture to run 150km across the month, and complete my daily circuit, which would be an unfathomable total of 10800 reps, and 1800 reps of each exercise, for the month itself...

Well, now that the math's mathing, WTFF was I thinking when I signed off on this challenge...

So not quite the B-E-A-UTIFUL run I'd anticipated...

But that's the first country run done - a very grueling 10km in just under 55 minutes, and 1/6 of the way to 150km!

When I look back to 2019 and 10km times of under 45 minutes though - oh how the mighty have fallen...

That's better!

Day three of MOVEMBER, and I'm feeling fresh after having a bit of a trim...

The MO is back, and we have a B-E-A-UTIFUL day for a 10km run and our next circuit!

Circuit #2 done! With the shite press-ups from yesterday, I went for proper press-ups tonight, which meant donning the bowler... it felt fitting...

So not really the start I wanted, considering running + headache = a bigger headache

But just short of 15km bagged, and the first circuit done, albeit with some pretty shite pressups.

But hey ho, we start somewhere I guess, and surely it'll only get better..

It will get better... right?