Jo has been a bit lapse with her updates, so I thought I better help her out a little!

I am Charlie-Dog, I do most of the training with Jo, so I am probably in the best position to update you on her progress …! I am the one sniffing the poppies – don’t smell of much do they?

Jo has been getting lots of miles under her belt, building up good stamina (I should know, I’ve done most of them with her!) I thought you might like a few stats (Feb-June 2010):

• Mileage: 1000
• Steps: 2,325,018
• Minuets continuous walking: 13,790 – that is equivalent to 19, twelve hour days of walking!!
• Fat burned: 3,810g – no wonder she can eat all those maltesers.

That is the straight forward training which Jo is now quite good at, a 26 mile walk is a relative stroll in the park!  …. But she recently started her strength work and isn’t a patch on her two young boys! When asked to do some press ups, she barely managed two! The boys can do about 50, with claps in between and other advanced stuff! She also has a lot of work to do building up the strength in her knees, particularly the dodgy one that she had reconstructed 2 years ago. She is busy doing squats, trying to get the weight through her heels, and not tipping forward. After her first session (75% of which was taken up doing paper work!) Jo could barely lift her arms above her head for 3 days!

Jo has also started pulling a tyre! I promise to try and get photographic evidence, although at the moment she is sneaking out very early. It has certainly slowed down her walking, which is a good thing, as it gives me lots more time to sniff around and chase deer. I know that Jo is finding it quite challenging, I haven’t dared tell her she is only pulling 10kg. Out in the arctic, she will be pulling around 50kg. Hope to ‘chat’ again soon. C-D x

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