NEWS FLASH..................NEWS FLASH..............

The latest on the mountain bike raffle is......................There are only 12 eligible people for the draw so the odds are good!

I havent dropped or crashed it yet so its in good working order at the moment!

Also Im doing another interview with Radio Gloucestershire on Wednesday next week! So listen out at lunch time! Id love to have reached £1000 by then (only a measley £79 more , nudge nudge, hint hint !!!!!!!!!!!!).

Well Im off for an active weekend to keep those muscles ticking over.

and on we go......

Ive just come back from the gym again! and yesterday I did a run in the evening so it all going ok at the moment. Cant say Ive done any "night training"!!!! as some teams seem to have but then that would probabley just scare me!

Considering its my birthday this week I think Ive trained pretty well................and yes even limited the birthday cake intake! - well ok only slightly but its calling to me from the kitchen as we speak and Im not listening!

Ive started getting pep talks from everyone and wonderful advice that ranges from "eat lots of pasta the night before" to "have you got a life insurance"?!

Id like to say thanks for ALL the advice and I have to say the best bit this week has been the need to shop! I am now the proud owner of a head lamp (small light that goes on your head on a strap as opposed to a large metal car part!). I also have a super duper lightweight, waterproof, breatheable rucksack with "go faster" stripes!

Now if I can only track down those "racing legs" and the latest "marathon runner" torso I should be laughing!.................................................

A Big thankyou!!!!!

Firstly I have to say a BIG thankyou to everyone who has sponsored me.......I will need all the help I can get!

Now there are only 19 days to go I must admit to being a little nervous. You may think its the pain of running that worries me or maybe the canoeing and the chance to fall into icy autumnal water... but no Im worried about the daddy-long-legs!

Yes I know an irrational fear but ever since guide camp.................well lets just leave it at that!

So................I have to "fess up to chickening out and opting to staying in somewhere with daddy-long-legs proof walls.

But I can assure you I will still do the challenge - daddy-long-legs or no daddy-long-legs!

Ive done it again!!

Well you'll be pleased to know that I did actually go to the gym more than once last week! I forgot Thursdays visit again. It was good I managed rowing that I havent done for a while - ached where I havent for a whilethough.
Well this week I will mostly be............. training out of the gym as I need the "real-life, elements, kind-a-thing!!!" or I will be really upset when I realise it can rain on me!
Watch this space..............................................

Oops forgot again!

I keep forgetting to put my training visits to the gym up here now - I blame new academic year and general family life................or it maybe that I am fast approaching my birthday and senility is taking over!
I have actually been to the gym twice since my last posting once to swim and once running and cycling (as usual!).
I was surrounded by people in pyjamas in the pool (I kid you not and no I havent lost it completely,...... they were raising money for CRY as sadly a young woman known to members of the gym died a few months ago - another worthy cause)
Well it has FINALLY stopped raining long enough to take the snorkel off and dig the car out of the mud of the front garden so I aim to go again this evening. Wish me luck!

Back in the warm

I wimped out and went to the gym tonight as its raining and horrible!
I managed 10 kms on the bike in just under 20 minutes - which was cool. Thanks to Jools Holland who was accompanying me on the ole piano!
Back to school tomorrow so Id better go and sort out "stuff"

Out in the real world!

I have just graduated from the hallowed halls of the gym (nice warm DRY halls I might add!)

and I have done my first outdoor run, ............. in the real world, ................. in the wet and windy outdoors!
Id like to say it was fun or even life affirming - but actually it was wet, dark and hurt lots!!!!!!
Aah well, tomorrow wont be so bad ................................and so to bed.