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,

Sunday 17 August 2014

Strathaven 50 Mile Sportive

Did the Strathaven 50. Which was a 50 mile cycle I have done this in previous years and wanted to continue. Was unsure before I started this how my body would cope as it was only 4 weeks after the Ironman, plus I had enjoyed a holiday. 

The weather on the day was deplorable. Blowing a gale was understatement. I felt sorry for those that were doing the Ultra Marathon on the same route. I was wanting to try and do the route without stopping. 

There was 2 places in which you could stop for food (18 miles and 32ish miles). As I said this is by far the worst weather I have ridden in for a while. It was that bad that I even had to pedal to go DOWN the hill. The is probably the first cycle I have not enjoyed for a while. 

I did stop at the 32 mile for some warmth and of course some cake and coffee. Only for 5 minutes then back outside to brave the weather. I was so glad to see the finish line. Once I did arrive back at the school there did not seem to be many people there. I was either finished fairly quickly due to the weather or everyone else had gone. 

I have to say I was glad that Dale Cycles was there at the start otherwise I would not even be able to start the event as I was having gear problems :(

Went straight home had a shower to warm myself up and then took Erin to her horse riding lessons. 

I did the cycle in about 3hrs 15 mins.




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