… but not thinner!
I said in my last post that I was going to give the gym a week to make me thin and beautiful. Well, it has been a week and I am neither! Still, I have only been swimming once and to the gym twice so I suppose I have no one to blame but myself. (Much as I would love to blame someone else – I guess have to take some responsibility!)
Training has certainly started to get more exciting since I started going to the gym – I am not planning on doing all my training in there but it is very nice to do a few different things, give my body a fuller work out and I am feeling a lot better in myself for doing so! I still love swimming and apart from two weeks on holiday I didn’t every go but the ‘adult’s only’ swim isn’t as seedy as it may sound!
The best news of all is that we have reached and exceed out target of £2,500!!! We have had to raise a minimum of two thousand five hundred pounds between us as you know, but we are up to £2,679 and this doesn’t include the £250 that Penni has been promised by Arriva Trains Wales! This is such an important charity to my family and I and so we want to be able to send them as much cash as we can so please keep shouting about the bike ride, the fundraising page http://www.justgiving.com/joandpenni and the reasons why we are doing it!
A huge thank you to everyone for everything and, until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Sunday, 15 March 2009
What a Mistakea to Makea!
I like to think of myself as someone who is reasonably intelligent, who has a reasonable amount of common sense but sometimes I really am a complete wally!
Today was the first sign of spring, the sun was shining, the wind was low the sky was clear and conditions were fantastic for an early morning bike ride. But in my haste to get out of bed and on the bike as soon as I could I didn’t have any breakfast or anything really to drink – see what I mean? A fool and no mistake! Still, even on a very empty stomach and nearly dehydrated beyond prune status I still managed four and a half miles in just less than half an hour so I should be grateful for something!
Although I shouldn’t have gone out like that I was quite gutted with my performance on the bike and so I have made quite a big decision. Dave and I have been talking about joining the gym for a while now and today, we have decided that we will do it! We went to the leisure centre and get all the info and forms we need and booked an induction for Tuesday evening. Now I know what you’re thinking – that I am usually too tired to drag myself out of the bath in the evening but now that the evenings are drawing out I am hoping that I might manage a swim after work and then use the machines on the weekend. At least I will be doing something other than feeling guilty when the weather starts (as I am sure it will!) being silly again and I am stuck not training again! I am quite looking forward to it – but I’m sure the novelty will wear off soon!
Fair play though, there are some fantastic looking machines in the gym! It certainly has come a long way since the last time I set foot in there (September 1996!) when there were about 4 treadmills, 3 exercise bikes and a rowing machine! It is about 12 times the size now with loads of side rooms and scheduled exercise classes and the machines in the gym even have docking stations for your iPod!
So, by the next time I write I should be mega fit, thin and beautiful and if I am not I will be asking for my membership money back and blaming everyone other than me! Until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx
Today was the first sign of spring, the sun was shining, the wind was low the sky was clear and conditions were fantastic for an early morning bike ride. But in my haste to get out of bed and on the bike as soon as I could I didn’t have any breakfast or anything really to drink – see what I mean? A fool and no mistake! Still, even on a very empty stomach and nearly dehydrated beyond prune status I still managed four and a half miles in just less than half an hour so I should be grateful for something!
Although I shouldn’t have gone out like that I was quite gutted with my performance on the bike and so I have made quite a big decision. Dave and I have been talking about joining the gym for a while now and today, we have decided that we will do it! We went to the leisure centre and get all the info and forms we need and booked an induction for Tuesday evening. Now I know what you’re thinking – that I am usually too tired to drag myself out of the bath in the evening but now that the evenings are drawing out I am hoping that I might manage a swim after work and then use the machines on the weekend. At least I will be doing something other than feeling guilty when the weather starts (as I am sure it will!) being silly again and I am stuck not training again! I am quite looking forward to it – but I’m sure the novelty will wear off soon!
Fair play though, there are some fantastic looking machines in the gym! It certainly has come a long way since the last time I set foot in there (September 1996!) when there were about 4 treadmills, 3 exercise bikes and a rowing machine! It is about 12 times the size now with loads of side rooms and scheduled exercise classes and the machines in the gym even have docking stations for your iPod!
So, by the next time I write I should be mega fit, thin and beautiful and if I am not I will be asking for my membership money back and blaming everyone other than me! Until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Then came the rain….
Fair play, if it’s not one thing, it’s another! We are having no let up with the weather at all are we? First it was extremely cold, then it snowed and now it is raining as hard as ever and frankly, I am not amused! I am feeling more guilty and fatter by the day but without being able to get out on the bike things are not going to get any easier!
David and I went on quite a nice ride the other day (Saturday) and I felt great after it. David lead the way and we went over the causeway to Barry Island, then into the car park and over the breakwater, over the costal path to ‘Friar’s Point’, in front of the chip shops (which smelt fantastic!) and back over the causeway, along the Parade and around the while house/ lakeside and promenade until we had cycled for 5 miles. Considering the weather, the fact that we have not been able to get out for a while and that we were able to do all that cycling in the time that we did made us both feel fab!
Something that is still going well is the fundraising! We are up to £2,343 on the online donation page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni and we still have a few things in the pipeline but, personally, I would love to be able to smash through the target and out the other side! As I mentioned in the last entry we have a series of parties sorted as fundraisers, including a candle party, a make up party and a jewellery party. Thinking about the possible cash, in these three events if we raised £50 per evening (I think that is a realistic target considering we are charging £5 entry and then whatever for a raffle!) that’s £150 we wouldn’t have had and as I mentioned before Christmas Arriva Trains Wales have promised £250, so there’s and extra £400 taking our total to £2743, plus we have some sponsorship forms around the place which folks are filling up for us and some collection boxes dotted around the place and if we got to £3000 I would be a very happy bunny! In realistic terms I think we will reach this target but we still need people to shout about the page for us! This is such an important charity to my family, friends and I and I would love to give them as much cash as possible!
So, until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx
David and I went on quite a nice ride the other day (Saturday) and I felt great after it. David lead the way and we went over the causeway to Barry Island, then into the car park and over the breakwater, over the costal path to ‘Friar’s Point’, in front of the chip shops (which smelt fantastic!) and back over the causeway, along the Parade and around the while house/ lakeside and promenade until we had cycled for 5 miles. Considering the weather, the fact that we have not been able to get out for a while and that we were able to do all that cycling in the time that we did made us both feel fab!
Something that is still going well is the fundraising! We are up to £2,343 on the online donation page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni and we still have a few things in the pipeline but, personally, I would love to be able to smash through the target and out the other side! As I mentioned in the last entry we have a series of parties sorted as fundraisers, including a candle party, a make up party and a jewellery party. Thinking about the possible cash, in these three events if we raised £50 per evening (I think that is a realistic target considering we are charging £5 entry and then whatever for a raffle!) that’s £150 we wouldn’t have had and as I mentioned before Christmas Arriva Trains Wales have promised £250, so there’s and extra £400 taking our total to £2743, plus we have some sponsorship forms around the place which folks are filling up for us and some collection boxes dotted around the place and if we got to £3000 I would be a very happy bunny! In realistic terms I think we will reach this target but we still need people to shout about the page for us! This is such an important charity to my family, friends and I and I would love to give them as much cash as possible!
So, until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx
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