Everything hinges on strength

I had a quick flick through the 50+ drafts dating back to 2013 sat in the back-end this morning and spotted one near the top entitled ‘West Midlands Autumn Cup Powerlifting Competition’. That comp happened nearly three years ago (September 2023) which really cements how bad I’ve been at blogging over the last few years. Coincidentally, I’ve been just as bad at powerlifting since then too. I haven’t lifted in any consistent capacity since around the start of 2024 when Gaz and I separated. I mentioned at the end of 2024 “catch up” that I was trying to ‘hard reset’ and do shorter low pressure sessions with the guidance of my old powerlifting coach, but that didn’t work out (cost and time pressures) and I stopped again. Back in April 2025 I mentioned that I was seeing some issues from my lack of strength training impacting my running, and ended up dropping out of Newport marathon a week before the race as a result. I trained for Edinburgh marathon (for the second time) this year instead…