Move with May

02/09/2026

Our fertility journey. And hyrox 😝

31/08/2026

When considering IVF I didn't know the detailed steps, a lot of people who are considering it might not. Here's what happens:
Day 2 of your period you go in for a hormone blood test and ultrasound, if all good, you start the hormone shots.
Day 5 of the shots, go in again - same blood tests and ultrasound to see if the hormone dosage needs to be adjusted.
Day 9 of the shots - Go in again - same as day 5.
Based on the results of day 9 we schedule the trigger shot then the egg retrieval.

29/08/2026

Big life update. We are starting IVF. Wanted to share our journey because it does help. Seeing other people share their journey on here did help me.

21/08/2026

My first Hyrox (Part 1) - Less than 7 weeks of training for Women’s Doubles and ended up doing Mixed doubles.

A friend’s friend needed a Hyrox partner - I was going to do it with her but it didn’t work out.

I kept trying to find another female partner because I really wanted to see what I could do with the weights I'd actually been training for. My husband and I had talked about doing Mixed Doubles as a last resort, but we both knew the men's weights might mean I wouldn't be able to do much.

We bought the tickets 2 days before the race 😅.

My husband hadn't trained for HYROX either, but his starting point is VERY different from mine. His normal training is CrossFit and running, he's an ultra trail runner, & runs 20km 2x a week. He did 2 HYROX races back in March but didn’t want to do it again. I basically made him. And he had a 55km trail race 3 days after. 

In doubles, both partners have to run all 8km, but you can divide the work at the stations however you want.

The weights for the mixed doubles uses the men's and women's pro weights which is a lot more than the women's double which I trained for.

🏃 1km run × 8
🎿 Ski — 1,000m
🛷 Sled push — 50m @ 152kg
🛷 Sled pull — 50m @ 103kg
🐸 Burpee broad jumps — 80m
🚣 Row — 1,000m
🏋️ Farmer's carry — 200m @ 2×24kg
🦵 Sandbag lunges — 100m @ 20kg
🏀 Wall balls — 100 @ 6kg

What I actually did:

🎿 Ski — 2 × 250m
🚣 Row — 500m
🛷 Sled pull — 6m @ 100kg
🛷 Sled push — 2m @ 150kg
🐸 Burpee broad jumps — 20m
🏋️ Farmer's carry — 50m @ 2×24kg
🦵 Lunges — 0m 😂
🏀 Wall balls — 2 × 5 @ 6kg

I was disappointed in myself for not being able to do the lunges. 

The week before, when I realised Mixed Doubles might happen, I tested the 20kg sandbag lunges. I managed 90m. So I thought I could at least do lunges and farmer carries.

Lunges are station 7. By then we'd already done 7 runs and six stations. I tried twice, and couldn't even get down far enough to touch my knee to the floor for ONE rep.

Being able to do an exercise and being able to do it under fatigue is Def not the same thing.

I am proud of my running though - I really thought I would walk but didn’t walk at all!

19/08/2026

30/07/2026

I struggled with 40kg sled push 2 days before this. My first time trying it in over a year.
7 weeks before Hyrox, I thought it meant I wouldn't be able to do it because the race weight isn102kg.
One rest day in between, then went to a group Hyrox class, and I could do it.
The day I struggled was because I was fatigued, I did 3 hyrox classes 3 days in a row, barely slept and it was 9am, that's why I couldn't do it.
It wasn't weeks or months of building up strength, it was rest.
If you're struggling with a weight you could do before, maybe it's fatigue and you didn't suddenly get weaker.