Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life

In this weeks podcast I let you know how my training is going ahead of my Half Marathon, I get a PB which I am really happy about.  I then demonstrate how easy it is to cook a really healthy meal from ingredients and recipes supplied by the Mindful Chef.  There is a snippet from my chat with James Kimber in week two just in case you missed it and Jo Bridges gives advice for beginners either on a r...

Hi everyone and welcome to Catherine Lorimers Guide to Life Podcast.  It is week 3 of my London Marathon Training and a welcome back to Alan (Hello) you were away skiing last week, your fan did email and complain that you were not on the Podcast last week so at least we know one person is listening to us.   Did you have a good break (Yes) Well Alan you are a man of few words, let’s hope I don’t ev...

London Marathon Training Week 2 Hello and welcome to this weeks podcast about my London Marathon Training, for anyone who didn’t listen to week one, I started running in February 2023 after doing a half marathon walk around London and ran my first marathon at the beginning of September, in just 7 months. This podcast is also here to give you some inspiration if you have just started running and to...

Last year to went from a non runner to a marathon runner in 7 months.  Following on from this success, I am determined this year to get even fitter, by eating healthier food, loosing more weight and doing more training to run a better time in the London Marathon in April 2024. Follow my journey my is full of hints and tips if you are running your first marathon or if you just want to start running...

For New Years this is a short story about a policeman and a tartan carpet. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Having lost my ex father in law who I loved dearly very recently, I wanted to do something to remember him by and thought that this trek would be a great way to do it. This podcast is about the highs and the lows of the trek, my mistakes and my wins in finishing it and also about some of the people that I met and chatted to along the way.   Thanks for listening contact me on the show

After a couple of friends told me they were going speed dating, I thought that is something that I could go off and do on my own.  So I booked up for speed dating in Liverpool at the Hlilton Hotel with Fast Love Speed Dating.  This podcast is about how the event went and did I get a match and a date, if you listen to the podcast you will find out. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

I had a go at doing a half marathon trail run in 2023 on the beautiful estate of Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire.  It is one of my most favourite places and holds lots of really great memories,  This podcast is about the Castle and Estate and some of the other events that I have attended there as well as how the trail run went. I hope that you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed running it,...

This is the final podcast for this season, Here about car maintenance, self assessment and not the tax one, my fell pony Merlin and the start of our next adventure and my Ghost Hunting experience.  Have a great summer everyone, get out there and do loads of things.   Thanks for listening contact me on the show

In this penultimate podcast I head off to Tarvisio which is on the boarder of Austria and Slovenia, I head off to the Carfest festival on my own and then buy a canal boat to holiday on next summer. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week I am talking about how to get through Easter single, especially if you don't have family or friends to share it with.  Have a listen to how I went from doing a training run to running the Wirral Way and the daily hot bloke count. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

In this weeks light-hearted podcast I am chatting about my trip to Winterbach, my Red Barrows training, how I lost my car keys at the airport and also about my experience of having a personal trainer.   Thanks for listening contact me on the show

I am very excited to tell you that this weeks episode is about my Marathon Ready Retreat organised by the Frothy Coffeeman and Paul Rooker, two absolute gents.  Have a listen to find out about my exciting week and all the awesome people I met including the legendary Ben Smith who ran 401 marathons in 401 days and one of the nicest blokes I have ever met. Did I enter a marathon at the end of it, li...

This weeks episode tells of my travel last year to see James Blunt in Dresden and also my trip so see the home that has a significance to our family history Holkham Hall. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This weeks podcast is about my trip down to London to attend the inaugural Black Dog Big Bash, where Rod Stewart and Chris Evans got up to some amusing antics at the auction.  Have a  listen to the light-hearted podcast of the dinner what I liked about it and being my usual positive self there was nothing not to like as my glass is always half full and it certainly was half full of red wine on thi...

In this weeks podcast, I provide hints and tips on going to the cinema on your own.  I got camping on my own, staying at a rustic site, I go to Cardiff to see the Stereophonics, I go to Liverpool on my own to see a few bands and I head off to see James Blunt in Barcelona. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week I am taking a break from telling the story of my journey last year, to tell you about my first 5k run.  This time last year I was only able to run between 3 lamp posts so to be able to run 5k is a massive achievement.  So for anyone thinking of doing a 5k run here is what happens and how mine went, to hopefully encourage you to enter one yourself. Thanks for listening contact me on the s...

This week I talk through what I did in the month of May 2022, going to London, seeing Tom Cruise, travelling to Milan to see James Blunt, then going to a music festival all on my own. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

This week I talk about heading off to some destinations in Germany, to see James Blunt on his European Tour.  If you have ever through about seeing any artist abroad this will give you some more information about the whole experience and I travelled alone with limited German and survived so you can do it as well. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Taking a break from telling my Surviving Divorce story this week so to let you know at the request of my cousin about this event, which was my first major event like this. In this Podcast I talk about how the event went, how I trained for it and whether the training I did was enough and my final placing for the event. Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Welcome to the next episode of my podcast, in this episode, I tell how I started my social media journey.  I also talk about the importance of eating properly and on mindfulness and about the next bands that I went to see on my own still in the UK, but this time in Manchester, Stoke and Liverpool.  Thanks for listening contact me on the show

Hi everyone, thanks to everyone who has listened to my podcast so far.  This next chapter is about the start of my confidence building journey and what I did to start getting my confidence back through music.  It also has advice on what I would have done differently if you are in my situation in an unhappy relationship or going through a divorce.  It is also ok not to be ok.  At the end there is a...

Mental Fitness. I found this a really easy book to read and read a chapter a night over a two-week time frame.  I read lots of books, but there are so many important messages in this book that I think need to get out into society so for anyone who doesn’t like to read or who can’t and who doesn’t want to listen to the book being read then I have put together a brief synopsis on each chapter and li...

Here is the news episode of how I changed my life a year and while I am not exactly where I want to be and I have up days and down days, much life anyone else, I am a lot happier.  It also provides some advice on how to start a discussion if you are having relationship issues along with some helpful advice that I followed about sleep and mindfulness techniques including downloading a radio app to...

Here is the full story of how my life changed last year when I went from being unhappy, married living in a farm house with horses in Ayrshire to being single, happy and having lunch with Chris Evans and James Blunt.  With helpful hints and tips for you at the end on what books I read and what I did to get to where I am today. Thanks for listening contact me on the show