CALIFORNIA — BLOG — FRANCESCA J LING

When I started running in September, my plan was to aim for the London Marathon in May 2020. If you’re familiar with marathons, you’ll know this is probably one of the most popular races in the world, and as such, it’s not the easiest to get an entry to. This year, there were over 200,000 entries, from just about every corner of the globe.

And as you may have guessed, I was not one of the lucky few to get chosen this year. But I’ll keep trying until I get it. Since London is out, we can skip the race, right?

Nope. We’re just going to move it over a few countries to the east. We’ve now turned our sights on Istanbul, for their half marathon, with hopes that maybe Chara can convince them to relinquish a few more spots in the race (it does say to contact them after closing date if you want to run).

All my life, I’ve had an.. Interesting relationship with food. Not eating this food group or that, trying to achieve a certain look by eating more or less. For many years my focus was using food as a means to an end. Want to look better in that dress? Minimize your servings at meal times and up the water intake. Wishing for clearer skin? The dermatologist mentioned something about hormones in animal products… You see where this starts to go.

The point I’m making is that it’s super easy for us (particularly in the age of the internet) to get hyperfocused on only eating certain things, in order to achieve a certain goal (often with unexpected repercussions). Instead, I want to focus on the whole. How different parts of our bodies and our lives can work together - rather than in insolation.