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 13 January 2011

Another successful swim session

Well went for a swim at lunch time managed to do 700 metres.

100m Warm Up
50m Front Crawl
50m Just Kicking
50m Just using arms in Front Crawl (never used the float between my legs it was strange)
50m Front Crawl
400 Breast Stroke

By that time I was truely knackered.Went back to work and had my lunch. Today I have not been so good with the food.

Breakfast

Fruit Bread
Coffee

No Morning Snack

Lunch

Smoked Mackerel, Beetroot, Potato in a natural yoghurt and horseradish dressing with added grapes and pumpkin seeds
Diluting Juice
Go Ahead bar


Went to the Hampden Pyshio yesterday and did all kinds of tests yes I have to do excercises every day at least 7 times a day. To go back next week and use their Hydro pool.......as I hear you all going ooooooooooooooh. So I will keep you upto date on what is happening with that. Gave them the dates I would like to do races and the races I have already scheduled.

On another note hasn't the weather got increasingly warmer..........which might mean I can start the cycling to work thing next week woohoo. No l have not set up my turbo trainer, honest I will when I can.
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