I have had 2 sessions in the gym with Tommy in the last four days …. and I can feel it! But I am making progress, albeit small! I can now hang from the pull-up bar and pull myself up a couple of inches! You may laugh, but this is progress. Initially I could not lift Read More…
The kids are back to school, work as calmed down a little, so we can get back into some kind of routine. We have an Arctic team meeting scheduled in the diary with Jock on 10th Oct. His message was “The hard work starts now – the focus is getting to the pole!” Not sure how Read More…
The training has stepped up a gear! I have been out with the tyre twice in the last week; on Sunday I pulled it for 3.5 miles and felt it for the rest of the day. This tyre is only 10Kg in weight. I will be pulling 50Kg in The Arctic, so I have a Read More…
When we arrived at our holiday home in Hungary I made John drive round the block. We were given some very sketchy directions from the tourist office, where we collected the keys, and this house did not look like the one we had booked through the Internet! Our house had looked white & not green, Read More…
A week after the Nijmegen Marches I am in sunny Hungary enjoying a complete change of scenery! There are 15 of us; 5 adults and 10 children ranging from 9 – 15! We are in a large house, which surprisingly, as advertised has loads of room, 2 kitchens, 2 living areas, a fire pit and Read More…
I can’t believe it is a week since we completed the final day. It was straight back into work on Monday … the print pc had crashed and burned, so that set us up for a good week, starting of a day behind! Anyway I digress. On the last day the atmosphere was buzzing, we Read More…
We made it! I will write a proper blog about it tomorrow when I get home. Now it is party time!
Today was a day of 2 halves! Having got an early night and done lots of stretches I felt really good and the first 15 miles seemed to whizz past; then the dreaded joint pain set in and we slowed down hugely. John really struggled with about 10 miles to go; and that was when the hills Read More…
We had a lie in today! The start time which had been moved forward for the heat yesterday reverted to the normal time for the 50km of 4.00am, so it was only a 3.30am get up! At the start we met a nice PC from Cornwall and South Devon Constabulary, in full uniform. He had either bought Read More…
2.30am came round far too fast. It was still very dark, and I wasn’t sure where I was let alone what I was meant to be doing. Nijmegen hadn’t gone to bed, the 1.4 million party goers were still partying – our city centre flat had rocked with the noise all night! The sun rose Read More…
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