The reasoning behind the madness!

The reasoning behind the madness!

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UPDATE! 25 Oct 2010

It is with great sadness that I write this update. On the 25th October 2010 my little sister sadly passed away at the age of 31. She had bravely battled MND for 11 years. She had never given up and had achieved to much even after developing MND, winning the Open University award for achievement to gaining a degree. She will be greatly missed and will for ever be in our thoughts. Love you sis :D

Well where to start, it was all originally done as I was carry to much weight and wanted to loose it. Which I am sure it most peoples story begins, however after loosing the weight I actually started to enjoy running outside. Joined some forums (BCTTT & Runners World), there inspiration and helpfullness has helped me a lot. Now I am also swimming and commuting a couple of times a week to work on my bike! Now since 2011 I accomplished more than I thought I ever would or could. From 5k runs to an Ironman in 2014 and The Outlaw in 2015. In 2016 I am going down a different route, I will be trying Ultra's as you can see from my events I have already entered 3 so far. Now I thought wait a minute I need to have one more motivation and that people is my sister Emma. Since the age of 20 she was very unfortunate and developed MND (Motor Neurone Disease), she is now 31 years of Age. Her health has deteriatated over the years and we nearly lost her last year. My mum had to give up her work and become a full time carer for my sister and my dad takes over the duties when he comes home from work. All the races I do will be in aid of my sister and all money raised will be donated to MND to help raise awareness and research in the disease. Thanks for all your help and enjoy my training blog,

Monday 11 October 2010

11th October

Well last week I managed to injury one of the muscles in my leg so was unable to actually do any activity at all, even though I did try a couple of days later. Yes that was not a good idea. Probably made it worse. But as they say you learn from your mistakes!. However though today I decided I would try some light swimming at lunch time. Even though I was not in the mood for it I trundled across to the gym. Once changed and ready to go I was looking forward to it, got in the pool................they really should heat it up for me. Managed to do a nice brisk 450 Metres, have no idea how long it took me as was not clock watching. I did have to stop a couple of times to get my breathe back. Felt good afterwards and even more so that my leg was not giving me any trouble. Decided next thing to do was sit int he sauna for the next 10 minutes and that I have to say was bliss. Unfortunatley after all that it was time to head back to work as you guessed it I did this during my lunch break. That I have to say was my fitness for the day. Till tomorrow