training / emailing (Chris)

last week was a fairly busy week i guess...went out for a couple of runs on tuesday and friday. good to get round arthurs seat as hadnt done that in a while...allbeit at a pretty slow pace ha ha (sorry stu!). that was swiftly followed by another 5k parkrun down at sliverknowes promenade on sat morning. dont know how i got on yet as no results up on the website. reckon i chopped a tiny bit of my personal best. thats been 3 weeks in a row ive been able to get down there and will be there this saturday too. only another 46 after that to get my free t-shirt!!

the mighty southern only manged a draw with edin caley yest. 2-2. shoulda won and defo feels like 2 points dropped but hey least we didnt get beat. theyll be up there come the business end of the season. twas a game which saw the stroth debut the shiny new red/blood orange nike boot boots. felt good. comfy as. shoulda scored. another game which a couple of chances went-a-begging for me. need to improve on that goal to chance ratio bigtime.

combine all that running with football yesterday and i was a pretty knackered old git by yest afternoon. meaning i had a lil snooze and consequently missed most of the liverpool west brom game. good to see el nino getting off the mark. he'll probs go off on international duty and get injured playing for spain now...

no word or news on any sponsorship for the big cycle trip yet..still early i guess. stuart (and to a certain extent myself..) has been pretty busy sending out emails to basically anyone that sells bikes with the hope of getting sum sponsorship but had no luck so far.

got the facebook page done - parthenon2parthenon charity cycle. no photos up yet so that needs done. got a few members so far so hopefully that'll help spread the word.

saw dinner for schmucks last nite - pretty decent. bit odd in bits. espesh the dude from flight of ze chonchords. thinking the original french version will be better...which ill probs never see anyway.

Training (Stuart)

So last week was a busy week of training for me. Monday was a nice easy rest day, Tue i ran a cheeky 5k at night, Wed a rest day.Thursday i had football training, Friday another 5k run round Arthur Seat, Sat a 5k run at crammond as part of the Edinburgh Parkrun, finnished 87th out of abut 200 runners not bad since im not much of a runner bit i was a bit dissapointed as my legs felt sore and tight from a hard week of running and cycling. Sunday we played last season league champions and finished 2-2 not a bad result but should of snuck it i think, still unbeaten in 3 games.

No big cycles this week only to and from work and a few extra miles here and there prob only done about 30miles in the week.

Training (Stuart)

So I am going to start running 5k's on a sat morning through parkrun in Edinburgh. This together with my football training and cycling on a daily basis should keep me going fitness wise for the next couple of months till the winter comes. We are still awaiting confirmation of our first sponsor hopefully it wont be to long till someone helps out and then we can start getting things moving. We are trying to plan in some time to get a long distance cycle in but this is hard due to work and playing football at the weekends!

Exposure (Stuart)

Well we got our first bit of press regarding our trip. On Monday the Evening News ran our story along with some internal releases from St Columba's. We also might have the first of our sponsors but we need to wait a week or so before finalising anything.
The response has been good so far from the release and telling all our friends etc, people have been actively approaching me and offering advice and help.Hopefully in the coming weeks we can get a bit more press coverage and secure a sponsor or 2 if we are lucky.
I need  to step up the cycling over the next few weeks as I'm on holiday in September, 2 weeks sitting on my ass sunning myself.

hello and welcome to the blog (chris)

Yesterday was a fairly long day but cant thank steven enough for giving up his time and helping us with the website (http://www.parthenon2parthenon.co.nr/) and the blog. So once again Steve, thanks a million. I have to say it was pretty darn cool and exciting watching him work his magic and seeing it all come together. It really feels like a big job is done and we can really start getting the word out about what we are doing.

I guess the hard work starts now though. Gotta get the fitness up! After a weekend of rubbish: eating, drinking, and erm dancing, I must get on the bike ASAP and get some much needed excercise done. Playing football Tuesday night which will be tough but can only benefit. Looking forward to it.

Mon the Southern!!

The Journey begins (Stuart)

With great thanks to my brother Steven we have finally created our website and this very blog!
My cycling training today consisted of a 5 minute cycle to my brothers flat but with pre season training (for the mighty Edinburgh Southern) well and truly under way the quest for extreme fitness has begun. Only 10 months till we leave and 10 months to get into the best shape of my life.

I am feeling a mixture of excitement, nervousness and trepidation at the thought of completing this cycle, I just hope that we can finish the cycle on time and with no casualties. I just want to get in the saddle and get going.

Hopefully we can secure a main sponsor in the coming months who will fund this trip or be kind enough to donate some gear.