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., …

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. …

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. …