Introductions

Hello and welcome to GirlyFitness!
To begin with I'll give you a brief introduction about me... I'm a bit of a fitness freak, well sometime I am! I tend to go through phases where there aren't enough hours in the day for the amount of exercise I want to do, then other times I just want to eat chocolate and watch films. I guess in that sense I'm pretty normal!

So what's this blog all about? Well, I keep buying fitness magazines in the hope that they will inspire me to do more exercise and inform me about new and different sports, as well as reviews on useful and sensibly priced clothes.  Instead I find I've spent £3 to £5 on tips for quick wins like eating sugar an hour before a main meal to speed up my metabolism! So this blog is going to be about what I would consider useful reviews of affordable kit (less than £100 unless specialist) and what I find motivating and interesting regarding exercise.

My main sports are Dragonboating, cycling and a bit of running (of course I also do yoga and gym classes!) but I'll give anything a go that isn't too high in the air (rock climbing is my height limit!) In the last year or so I ran the Bath Half Marathon (my first running event which happened to be with a sprained ankle), cycled 24 hours on a spin bike (great fun but rather painful on the derrière) and a few walking events for charity.  At the moment I'm in training or at least starting to train for time trials to get onto the GB DragonBoat team. This involved being fit (fitness test in January 2013) and having a good technique and the mental and physical strength to commit to each stroke.