Top 5 for Summer Exercise

Hello lovely internet folk, 

As we are all well aware its the summer and that means 1000s of people start to enjoy the outdoors! whether your doing your first charity ride of running with your friends I believe its important to be prepared. So here's my top tips on summer exercise: 

1. Hydrate

Doesn't matter if it's a 15 minute ride to meet your friends or a 100 mile sportive you need to keep hydrated as possible, it only costs £5 to fit a bottle cage and bottle for your bike. and only a couple of pounds to buy a bottle to run with. 

2. Protect yourself

I was out running a couple days ago and forgot sun cream, this was a big mistake!! My neck got burnt and I had the worst night sleep because of it. So always remember to put sun cream on, I've started to use Aptonia sport sun factor 50 because its sweat resistant and its fairly good price, you can only get it from Decathlon I think but there is one of them in most cities. 


3. Go out late

Nobody enjoys sweating out half their body weight, so why not make yourself a goal of going out at least once a week in the evening, for one reason you don't get any traffic and you can see the amazing sunsets were having at the moment. And you can always finish with a massive pub dinner because hey you've earn't it. 

4. Get people involved

I've written about Strava before but I really do think its a great app for getting a bit competitive with your friends. I'm hopefully doing to Wolf Run in November with a group of friends which means I've got to start running a lot more by having the group of friends on Strava it gives me the boost of confidence I need to go out and beat their PB up a climb or go run with them so we can compare data and learn from each other. So why not invite some friends to go for a run or bike ride? 

5. Have some fun and take pictures

This is probably the best advice, just have fun! if you fall over whilst running make sure you laugh about it! Stop and admire the view and take some pictures of that sun set, taking pictures will be a diary to how far you've come in terms of distances you ride and time you've spent with friends that may be moving away to uni soon so take advantage and take lot of pictures of your adventures this summer! 

Have fun with whatever adventures you getting upto this summer. I hope you enjoyed this blog. 

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Sam x