Training is defo going better!

Well, I mentioned a few posts ago that I was joining the gym – all I can say is ‘typical’! I join the gym because the weather was so bad that I couldn’t get out on the bike, as soon as I sign up to the £25 a month subscription we start having an early summer! Ah well, at least I am protecting the young, elderly and sparing anyone who isn’t visually impaired the completely undignified sight of me in lycra!

The training programme that I have says that I should be able to cycle 8 miles within 40 minutes – the day before yesterday (Wednesday) I did 13km, so as near as damn it 8 miles in 26.22 minutes and I could have gone on for a lot longer, but I had to get back for something! I have been doing a few other things as well as the bike, the treadmill is good, but because of the strange sensation in my legs I can’t run in the machine and I have a nightmare trying keep my ‘tracky bums’ from falling down, (I mean, if I am keeping the lycra image away from the innocent folks of South Wales the last thing I need to happen is that the lower half of my anatomy is exposed and my £25 a month membership suspended, that would never do!) the arm bike and the cross trainer just to try and build up as much all over strength as I can and I am certainly feeling better for it! I do fancy doing some exercises to work my stomach/ tummy muscles and one day when its quiet in there I will ask one of the staff how I should go about this. Fair play, by the end of the summer I will need a whole new wardrobe to show off my new extremely sporty and super fit physique!

On the fundraising front, the on line donations page, http://www.justgiving.com/joandpenni is up to £2,829 which is fantastic, but we still need more! Although the target is well and truly exceeded we want to raise as much as we possibly can, so please keep telling everyone about this blog, the justgiving page and the Facebook group, Jo and Pen’s Trip of a Lifetime.

So, until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx