Been a really good last 2 weeks training wise last week ran 30 odd miles and this week was 7 days of sport running and cycling to work mon-fri parkrun on sat over snow and ice and 2 hours of football today feeling good after these 2 weeks. also had a really good meeting last week and following it up with a second tomorrow with what looks like a important member potentially of the team going to be interesting seeing what we can arrange tomorrow. waiting on hearing back from gooutdoors who say they may be able to provide some camping gear will be nice.
getting decent numbers following on twitter and opening up lots of new avenues for us for help advice and some handy contacts. all in all it has been a good couple of weeks. trying to blog more often so I remember all this stuff once we Finnish our trip.
Sunday 12 December 2010
Sunday 5 December 2010
Dec update (Stuart)
Been a good week so far 32 miles ran legs feeling good finally injury free thank god been giving me bother for the last 2 months or more not helped by continuing to play football and train!!
Going for a run in the morning before playing 5s in the afternoon looking forward to getting out for an early run without finishing at my work! also with no backpack on so should feel light on my feet. sent out 40+ emails today seeing if any uni students or Edinburgh companies would have any interest in filming us while we train and/or on our trip. might be a decent opportunity for a student to hone sone photography and filming skills and also could be good for us to have some decent footage and photos of our training and maybe a chance to have our cycle documented and something we can look back on in the future. If not will settle for trying to film and capture what we can with the resources we have. tomorrow will start targeting small local companies to see if they can get involved and support us must be someone out there who fancies helping just need to find them. missing not being able to get out on the bike much but at the same time enjoying the running and good cardio, glad I'm keeping up the training as it's so easy to give it ip for the winter but don't want to get to next year and not be fit enough to complete our cycle. No football for a while winter well and trueley here but been a while since played 5s so looking forward to that. hopefully once the park runs are back on can get a decent time and a pb after all this running.
Going for a run in the morning before playing 5s in the afternoon looking forward to getting out for an early run without finishing at my work! also with no backpack on so should feel light on my feet. sent out 40+ emails today seeing if any uni students or Edinburgh companies would have any interest in filming us while we train and/or on our trip. might be a decent opportunity for a student to hone sone photography and filming skills and also could be good for us to have some decent footage and photos of our training and maybe a chance to have our cycle documented and something we can look back on in the future. If not will settle for trying to film and capture what we can with the resources we have. tomorrow will start targeting small local companies to see if they can get involved and support us must be someone out there who fancies helping just need to find them. missing not being able to get out on the bike much but at the same time enjoying the running and good cardio, glad I'm keeping up the training as it's so easy to give it ip for the winter but don't want to get to next year and not be fit enough to complete our cycle. No football for a while winter well and trueley here but been a while since played 5s so looking forward to that. hopefully once the park runs are back on can get a decent time and a pb after all this running.
Thursday 2 December 2010
Winter 2010 (Stuart)
Long time since last post so I'm going to wrap up the last few months into a few words! Married life is treating me well we had a great honeymoon in the Maldives and a really great day was nice to have all our friends and family together in one room. Welcome to the family Mrs Doyle
My training has improved and I feel much stronger and fitter than before. Over the last 2 weeks i have started running to work so getting 10k under my belt daily and this with football cycling(where possible in this weather) and weight training over the winter months i should see an improvement come Jan/Feb. We need to try where possible to get some distance on the bikes if possible either in the gym or ideally out on the roads but going to be tough with the worst conditions in 17 years out there.
We are arranging 2 events for next year to be our main fundraisers and they are coming along well we have had the go ahead to complete a world record attempt for the longest game of 5 aside football and are going to play a charity fundraiser against the hearts legends.
So all in all its going well we need to really push on and try to secure some sort of sponsorship i will try and sort something out this weekend. But with our events we might get some exposure and maybe people will be more inclined to help out.
My training has improved and I feel much stronger and fitter than before. Over the last 2 weeks i have started running to work so getting 10k under my belt daily and this with football cycling(where possible in this weather) and weight training over the winter months i should see an improvement come Jan/Feb. We need to try where possible to get some distance on the bikes if possible either in the gym or ideally out on the roads but going to be tough with the worst conditions in 17 years out there.
We are arranging 2 events for next year to be our main fundraisers and they are coming along well we have had the go ahead to complete a world record attempt for the longest game of 5 aside football and are going to play a charity fundraiser against the hearts legends.
So all in all its going well we need to really push on and try to secure some sort of sponsorship i will try and sort something out this weekend. But with our events we might get some exposure and maybe people will be more inclined to help out.
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