for Titanic II.So this year, I had a radical rethink If I lacked the willpower to achieve even the most modest of resolutions, perhaps I should set myself a completely impossible goal instead. And so it was that I decided to give up everything. For six months.Alcohol

for myself, but for the entire region. Were I to topple or roll accidentally into the river, for instance, it could cause serious flooding in low-lying areas of the Thames Valley. And so I shall be renouncing alcohol again, immediately after the Viennese

’t broken a sweat since their last council tax demand simultaneously challenged each other to run from Greenwich to Westminster.What in God’s name can have possessed them? Artificial bravado, of course, induced by mild alcoholic poisoning. That

’s friend, Ken. I’d subdued my stomach with four Rennies, but I knew it was a temporary measure at best.A tune resonated stupidly around my head on an endless loop. A mild case of alcoholic poisoning will often produce Bryan Hyland’s Sealed With A Kiss

, it might have been a scene from an avant-garde ballet in which Barbie searches for Ken, now a psychotic Vietnam War veteran in the final stages of alcoholic dissolution. The elegant hotels of Santa Monica gave way to the bars and psychedelic facades

an ice pack that will conform to any body part, mix equal parts rubbing alcohol and water in a ziplock bag; store the bag in the freezer. It will become very cold but remain squishy." Lee Dixon"Be-prepared-for-anything ride-kit contents: ibuprofen, a £10

under the 20 minute mark, I couldn't touch my toes, my ITB (iliotibial band, the muscle that runs from your hip to your knee on the outside of your leg) seemed to be made out of concrete and my balance was similar to that of a career alcoholic.To be a

George's Day means a pressing engagement with a succession of public houses, and drinking loads of beer is a really key part of it. I won't be training much in the week before a marathon anyway, and the alcohol should be gone from my system by mid

is most beneficial? -->HEALTH: NUTRITIONIf I don't feel hungry after training, should I force myself to eat? Will avoiding alcohol while I train for a marathon improve my performance? Are there any foods that can help me sleep? How much fibre should I

phytochemical called ECGC that researchers say can boost your basal metabolism. In fact, the action of ECGC seems to work best when it’s in brewed green tea, not in pill form.Watch The AlcoholAlcohol dehydrates you, which slows down your thermic metabolism