Fergie Time

 What's your reason why? Everyday the sunrises, the sunsets, Everyday, you grow a day older. Everyday, life doesn't stop. We see videos online, we hear lots of advice and we experience lots of surrounding noise. How do we keep to our own identity, stick to our own life promises: guiding ourselves towards who we want to be, with so many of life's obstacles in the way?  Everyone sees the world in their own way. What's special about it all is that everyone has their own experience of living on this earth.  Jimmy Carr once said, "the key to happiness is being in your flow state for as much as possible in life". This pinpoints focusing on spending time doing things you love, being with those you love and refining your life to your identity and purpose. The idea of purpose is an interesting concept. A lot of people feel like they don't have a sense of it. That's okay. It doesn't need to be a certain thing: it can apply to what's said above about bei...

 How did it feel to run the Lochness Marathon? By Daniel Ferguson During a standard day in Newcastle, me and Noah were doing some work in a cafe. After meeting each other at Northumbria University, we had got in a groove of running together most weeks. We both had our eyes set on running a half marathon. I said to Noah we could do it for charity, that's when he said, "if we're doing it for charity, why not do a full one?"  This felt like a huge challenge, but I told Noah I would; give it a few weeks and we had booked the Lochness Marathon: a hilly one for a first... Lochness Marathon Training began. I found a training plan using an app called Runna. It created a plan based off my 5km and 10km times and I set a target time for the marathon (3hours45 to 4hours). It created a plan with 2 runs a week, I chose this amount as I knew it was realistic. It consisted of various runs: long runs, hill runs, intervals, tempo runs and 'easy' runs. The long runs were a chall...