Not much to say this week!! Been exercising, maybe not enough but slowly building up. Managed to find a place to go swimming, did 30 lengths this morning. We were hillwalking yesterday, 41/2 hours in the ochils, still a fair amount of ascent 900 + metres. Our usual couple of days of core workouts and we even ventured out for a run on Wednesday night. Me running, ha ha ha!!!
Places on the team are filling up now, with 5 of us confirmed. Me, Ricky, Stuart, Stu and Alan. I think we are definitely registering for Gold (the full 73 miles) and the form should be sent away as soon as Ricky gets back from snowboarding in Canada, then there will be no getting out of it!
The only other headache now is trying to co-ordinate it all i.e accommodation, travelling etc and deciding on footwear! Well I am female after all and it's all about the shoes ;0)
Lorna x
Monday 21 January 2008
Monday 14 January 2008
Snow, Glorious Snow.......
Here we are again, another week has past and probably still not doing enough exercise!!I did do several core workouts during the week, and walked only on one lunch break. Tried to go swimming but the pool we normally go to (Stirling) the roof has collapsed so we went to Grangemouth, never again.....nuff said!! We did do 26 lengths when we were there but I couldn't stand it any longer so this week we will try elsewhere.
The best day was yesterday. We were hillwalking near crianlarich, Glen Dochart in lovely deep snow and bright sunshine.
The walk was 12.3km and it took us 6 hours 30 mins (including breaks). Usually it wouldn't have taken just quite as long but we were breaking trail in the snow, which is thigh burning work! In some places the snow was between knee deep and thigh deep, in other places we just crunched along the top. Can't begin to describe how awesome the day was...
trip report here, along with photos
This week must try harder! And not give into temptation to be a couch potato and eat tons of chocolate instead!!
Lorna x
Monday 7 January 2008
Dirty Sunday!!
Sunday night, time for a weekly exercise update. Bearing in mind it's the first week there's not much to comment on. Monday Tuesday Wednesday, 2-3 mile walks. The Christmas decorations also came down on wednesday so there's room for excercising in the house now! Thursday a couple of core workouts were done and Friday I took my Ipod to work and walked on my lunch break - 30 mins 2 miles (I had to leave time for eating!)
Stuart and I had planned on an outdoor exercising weekend, biking on saturday and hiking on Sunday. Saturday came and we got all ready to go, padded shorts and all only to then open the curtains and see rain pouring and the wind howling (mental note to open curtains before getting ready!) Saturday's plan was now scrapped and more indoor exercising was suffered!
Today was better though and as I sit here typing I can hardly move my legs and my butt hurts, which is probably more info than you wanted, but I'm tired and happy as the weather gods finally allowed us out and we cycled 30 miles today. Allandale to Bishopbriggs and back along the canal. Now I know that technically it's not that demanding but it's a start and cycling into a head wind for the first 15miles sure takes it out of you! As well as that, because of all the rain the previous day the canal path was more like a dirty burn and we were well and truely caked in mud from head to toe by the time we got back to the car. So much so, a trip to mum and dad's had to be made to hose down the bikes, bags, and clothes and the washing machine has been going ever since! But it was great and my house is back to the usual chaos with muddy boots and drying equipment everywhere.
So week one is over and we limp into week two hoping that i can actually move in the morning!
Lorna x
P.s. Ricky had issues getting onthe rig but all is well now, he's there and i'm sure he's exercising as I type ;o)
Stuart and I had planned on an outdoor exercising weekend, biking on saturday and hiking on Sunday. Saturday came and we got all ready to go, padded shorts and all only to then open the curtains and see rain pouring and the wind howling (mental note to open curtains before getting ready!) Saturday's plan was now scrapped and more indoor exercising was suffered!
Today was better though and as I sit here typing I can hardly move my legs and my butt hurts, which is probably more info than you wanted, but I'm tired and happy as the weather gods finally allowed us out and we cycled 30 miles today. Allandale to Bishopbriggs and back along the canal. Now I know that technically it's not that demanding but it's a start and cycling into a head wind for the first 15miles sure takes it out of you! As well as that, because of all the rain the previous day the canal path was more like a dirty burn and we were well and truely caked in mud from head to toe by the time we got back to the car. So much so, a trip to mum and dad's had to be made to hose down the bikes, bags, and clothes and the washing machine has been going ever since! But it was great and my house is back to the usual chaos with muddy boots and drying equipment everywhere.
So week one is over and we limp into week two hoping that i can actually move in the morning!
Lorna x
P.s. Ricky had issues getting onthe rig but all is well now, he's there and i'm sure he's exercising as I type ;o)
Thursday 3 January 2008
And then it begins......
Okay, so Christmas and New year has past and it's only 120 days (4 months approx) to our mammoth challenge. The whole Great Glen in 24 hours, OUCH! That's 73 miles in a day, my muscles ache at the thought of it. So far the team consists of Me and Ricky, brother and sister. There are two other possibilities Alan and Stuart. There is also the important task of bike transport driver and smelly sock collectors i.e. the support team and this so far consists of Mum and Dad at the moment.
So it's time to think about getting fit, now that i've spent the last week munching all the chocolates and cakes from Christmas, obviously to avoid temptation at later stages in the diet/fitness regime, ha ha ha ha.
The possibilities for fitness during the darkest month of the year are limited for a gymophobic, outdoor type like me. Ricky on the other hand is leaving for two weeks offshore and when he gets time off from working too hard he doesn't have far to go with all facitlities provided on the rig! He assures me he will be cycling the 30 miles and doing other types of gym things to start preparing. My choices are going to have to be swimming and core workouts during the week and hiking and biking at the weekend. (excuse me while I say a little prayer for dry weather)
Over the next few months on the run up to the event i'll keep this blog up to date on the progress being made and the ups and downs of getting ready for the MONSTER!!!
Thanks for reading and enjoy, Lorna x
So it's time to think about getting fit, now that i've spent the last week munching all the chocolates and cakes from Christmas, obviously to avoid temptation at later stages in the diet/fitness regime, ha ha ha ha.
The possibilities for fitness during the darkest month of the year are limited for a gymophobic, outdoor type like me. Ricky on the other hand is leaving for two weeks offshore and when he gets time off from working too hard he doesn't have far to go with all facitlities provided on the rig! He assures me he will be cycling the 30 miles and doing other types of gym things to start preparing. My choices are going to have to be swimming and core workouts during the week and hiking and biking at the weekend. (excuse me while I say a little prayer for dry weather)
Over the next few months on the run up to the event i'll keep this blog up to date on the progress being made and the ups and downs of getting ready for the MONSTER!!!
Thanks for reading and enjoy, Lorna x
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