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,

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Cycling Home

Well after a hards day at work, well I suppose that is debatable. It was time to do the return journey and head home. Right calf muscle was feeling a bit tight but I was hoping that about 5 or 10 minutes of light cycling would soon loosen the muscles, hmmm. Actually the journey home was better than I first anticipated, this is due to the first 5 of the 11 miles being relatively flat. By the time I reached Burnside, I knew that I had nothing but a gradual uphill cycle left to do. I was actually starting to feel the cold a bit more. However the end goal was not that far away. I started slow hill by the time I made it to the East Kilbride dual carriageway my legs were sore and I was struggling, not wanting to walk with the bike I pedalled onwards. Decided this time though that I would take the back road, up beside Rolls Royce, yes there was still hills but these were more of a hill.......flat....hill.....flat......hill and then a HUGE downhill weeeeeee. Eventually made it to James Hamilton Park and from there on in was a breeze (sorry about the pun). Took 10 minutes longer than usual but I was not to fussed as the weather was colder and I was just getting back into the commute. Tomorrow will be a sports massage (I can feel the pain just now) and then American Flag Football Training.
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