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,

Thursday 14 October 2010

14th Oct

This was a strange day. Started off with really good intentions and then steadily got worse. I did plan to do a swim at lunch time. I had everything ready to go. Except...................yup I forgot my gym pass and they charge you £3.75 if you forget it. So I had to put that aside, my mood was slightly miffed, but only had myself to blame. The day did start to look up, passed a charity shop and there in the window was just what I had been looking for, a little red riding hood costume. Before you start no it is not for me it is for my daughter. We had been looking for a red hooded cape and there are virtually impossible to find. I was so chuffed for actually finding one that was brand new with tags in the charity shop. Yeeeeah to me. So next plan do a run. That again did not happen forgot we had to do some shopping tonight, so time that was done etc I was not going out running on a empty tank done it before and was unwell . I was thinking in hindsight that it may of been a good thing do not want to over do things after a muscle injury. Tomorrow though what will I do?
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