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24/11/2025

Simple chicken and leek bake.

I saw a video of a recipe with these caramelised leeks on the bottom of a frittata and I couldn’t stop thinking about it so decided to try and recreate it for my lunch this week.

I think it went okay🤤🤤🤤

There’s lots of substitutions you could make for this if you wanted to give it a go with your own flair, it’s a pretty versatile recipe

I started by pan frying two leeks that I cut into 2 cm rounds, probably around 4 to 5 minutes on either side pn heat with a little oil in the pan and some salt.

Meanwhile I sautéed 1 finely diced red onion and about 10 to 12 mushrooms, also finely diced, in a little oil before adding around 500 g of diced chicken breast.

once the leeks were nicely caramelised on both sides I arranged them in the bottom of a baking dish.

I then whisked six eggs together, adding the mushroom/chicken/onion mix and also a big handful of chopped parsley.

I poured this over the leeks, topped it with some Parmesan cheese and a big crack of black pepper before putting it in the oven onto 200 for around 25 minutes.

You know it’s done when the top is firm rather than jiggly.

This recipe will make around six servings, a bit under 300 cal but more than 30 g of protein per serve.

This will be lunch a few times this week, served with some salad

You could definitely sub the chicken for a different meat or with tofu

You could switch the leeks out for other types of onion.

You could omit the Parmesan cheese and add something like breadcrumbs with salt

23/11/2025

Hey! Did I tell you I ran the

12/11/2025

It’s been nine days since the marathon and I have been having a fabulous time soaking in all that New York has to offer - meaning that have been covering around 15 to 20,000 steps every day…..

I think this has helped in my muscle recovery as I had the urge here on my last day in NYC to take a little trot around Central Park

There are all sorts of ideas about when you can run again after a marathon - the first thing is whether your body feels ok to run, then the next is whether you want to lol.

And then it’s a good idea to not go too hard or for too long.

I did neither 😂😂😂 slooowwww 4km and I felt good. Legs were a bit tight and creaky but it felt good to be out trotting again

10/11/2025

Sharing my most favourite signs from the marathon🥰

Number 1 is my favourite! Little me would be proud, I know mid 20’s me wouldn’t believe it 😂

The last one was with about 1km to go 🥰 that guy and his friend were so full of encouragement right when I needed it

Watch out - I’m coming for you (well the sidelines!) with my tissues, signs and megaphone!

05/11/2025

05/11/2025

🏃‍♀️💨 NEW YORK MARATHON

Part three - the actual run.

Wowee! This experience was incredible, it’s actually quite difficult to describe and I’m not sure this reel will even do it justice!

They were 59,000 runners and apparently over 2 million spectators across the course that stretch from Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and then into Manhattan - the five boroughs of New York.

In terms of run strategy, that went out the window 😂

It was planned to have a structured nine minutes running one minute walking; but instead we ran for most of the first half (just very quick stop for a drink of water/taking a gel)

It was just before the halfway where I insisted that I would be falling back behind our crew. Being unwell I didn’t want to run out of energy and I didn’t want to hold anyone else back.

And I felt completely ok to be running on my own - the crowd was incredible, deafening at times!

With my name on my shirt , and my bib, I felt like I had a cheer squad of 2 million people.

So I kept my eyes up, I drew energy from the crowd and spent the whole time around the course thinking this was all a dream!!!

The reality kicked in the last 10km or so… I walked any of the hilly bits and where I could

And the result?!?

I set out and achieved everything I had said back 20 weeks ago. I had 2 main goals in mind ::

✅arrive to the start line in one piece (thanks to physio, chiro, massage, lymphatics drainage, sauna, long hot baths with epsom salts, stretching, doing physio exercises etc etc)

✅ finish with a smile on my face - and I sure did tick that off! I was laughing, smiling and so happy all the way around

If you’re ever in the position to consider running the - do it!!!

And thank you for following along on this journey 🥰

04/11/2025

🏃‍♀️💨 NEW YORK MARATHON DAY

Part two…

in an incredibly lucky turn of events, we had a change of plan on route to start the marathon.

We were all set to wait it out over in Staten Island and start the marathon at lunchtime-ish.

But a friend of a friend was able to arrange for us to be escorted to the start line and take off shortly after the elites

whilst this twist was not planned for, it meant that we were actually going to start closer to the time that we had been training.

we were incredibly lucky, and I am just so grateful to have had this unique opportunity, I truly believe that it was a big factor in how the run played out for me considering some of the challenges I had.

Part three - the actual run!!! Coming soon😂

04/11/2025

🏃‍♀️💨 NEW YORK MARATHON

Part one…

Let me share with you the before, the during and the after of what I’m currently feeling like may have been one of the best experiences of my life 🥰

It was a 4.30am wake up after literally almost no sleep, and this was for the second night in a row.

It was a combination of anxiety/nerves (about whether I could get through the run with this sickness) and the literal congestion from the sickness 😂

something I tell patients when they are in the thick of a sleepless night is to allow the body to rest - deep breathing, guided meditation like yoga nidra, body scanning etc, with an underlying mantra of ‘rest is as good as sleep’

‘rest is as good as sleep’
‘rest is as good as sleep’
‘rest is as good as sleep’

I must have repeated this 1000s of times…

But it worked - I felt ok getting up, and knew that adrenaline was going to kick in at some point anyway 😂

But you can see the struggle I was having to do the maths on counting my gels, hope it’s not as painful to watch as it was to compute 😂

Part 2 coming soon🤗

02/11/2025

🏃‍♀️💨 it is day 140 of 140 of New York Marathon training.

That’s right there are no more days to go.

👏🎉💃🤸🥳

Tomorrow we run.

And we walk.

And we take pictures.

And we take videos.

And we hi-five people

And we soak it all in

And we have fun.

And we run the bloody NEW YORK MARATHON!!

02/11/2025

Me trying to sleep the night before the big day 😂

01/11/2025

New York Marathon training, the Halloween edition

🎃🎃🎃

Friday here in New York was Halloween and it was also a rest day from running. Tomorrow we do a really short gentle jog and on Sunday we run 42.2 km.😂

In an effort to curve the excessive steps we mastered the subway and headed all over town to soak in the Halloween festivities.

New Yorkers really know how to put on a show show!

Sickness still there, it’s not too bad but unfortunately it has been affecting my sleep and so here I am in the early hours of Saturday morning doing this instead of lying awake worrying about not getting sleep

besides a little jog and going to a matinee show, Saturday is going to be very chill and I plan on having an nap or two as I don’t think I’ll get much sleep on Saturday night either… aaaahhh Pre-event nerves 😅😅😅

join me for one more marathon training reel, because after that… It’s the actual real thing!!

LETS GOOOOOO!!!!

31/10/2025

🏃‍♀️💨 day 138 of New York Marathon training…

Two days to go!!!

In unfortunate news I’ve woken up with a bit of a cold🤧😕 I don’t think it’s anything to major, but I’m throwing the kitchen sink at it in hopes that I’ll be over it by Sunday😬

Fingers and toes crossed for me, please🤞🤞🤞

I didn’t let it stop me from taking in as much of the excitement, fun and atmosphere of the expo Hall and I now have so much merchandise… I don’t think I’ll be forgetting this event for the next decade or more - I’ll be in marathon branded gear forever lol.

Thursday was a rainy day, apparently there was flooding in parts of New York where we’re going to run on Sunday, but it is now forecast to be clear right up until and after the marathon which is such a relief!

It was hard getting around in the rain today and would’ve been miserable to run in on Sunday, taking the wins where I can.

Please send all the healing healthy vibes you can, I think I’m going to need them!!!