One more slave day to go

This Saturday saw me doing my second to last slave day. It was different to the others I.e. not gardening. It was a day of garage clearing, tent drying, sandpit building and campervan washing. So there's one more gardening to day to go the weekend after Tough Mudder. Hopefully I'll be moving by then! Today was a good day at the gym trying to get myself more ready for Tough Mudder. It was a packed hour of 20 mins treadmill, 20 mins stepup machine and 20 mins rowing. Seriously shattered after all that. I've been reading the updates on the Tough Mudder website and I'm going to have to step up a gear to get ready. They reckon it'll be 3 hours to complete and some of the obstacles are looking terrifying. Ah well, bring it on.

Radio interview

As you may have read in previous blog entries, I'm running the Tough Mudder race in May, partly cos I'm nuts, and partly as training towards my 5 Peaks Challenge.

 

Many moons ago Tough Mudder emailed people asking if anyone was happy to get involved with marketing the race.  Seemed like a good idea at the time so I said I'd help out if they needed me.

 

I just heard today that they want me to do a radio interview on Chelmsford Radio at 4pm on the 5th of May as part of their Sports slot.  They want to know why I've chosen to run Tough Mudder.  I don't think Chelmsford Radio is exaclty on the Radio 1 listener numbers but still should be fun.  I'm going to take it as feedback that they think I have a face for radio!.  With any luck they'll let me mention my fundraising page too.  All I've got to do now is think about why I am running Tough Mudder.  Other than a general insanity plea I haven't come up with another explanation yet!

Veggies are in

It's been all go this Easter weekend. I did yet another slave day so that's another £50 for the pot. On top of that it's been lots of planting veg seeds. It's now piddling it down, which is a good thing. So over all there are two more slave days to come and then that,s it. Time to knuckle down and get the training done. I've been checking out the local map and working out some long walks around Chelmsford. I'm not exactly going to be able to practice on hills being in Essex, though some of those mole hills can get pretty tall. Coming up in May is the next big adventure race called Tough Mudder. Am getting nervous about it already and questioning my own sanity. Also for today feel free to sing me happy birthday. 21 yet again!

Good race

Gauntlet race results are in. Came 59th out of 316. Time 1:16:34. Woohooo. The mashed left knee and unusable left calf was almost worth it. Lol

It was a really hard race and a wake up call for getting ready for Tough Mudder in May.

I've got 3 more slave days to do one being this Saturday. So looking forward to that. After that I think I've done enough for now fundraising and need to knuckle down and train.

Saying that once it warms up a bit the. We'll be doing a boot fair to raise some cash too.

The Gauntlet

The 1st of April sees me running the Gauntlet which is a very muddy 12km race. An doing this as part of my training for Tough Mudder and so on the way to the Challenge.

Having said that if the hose pipe bans and drought are anything to go by who knows if there'll be any mud.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Busy times

It's been busy times for my slave days.

Saturday saw a day digging borders for Teresa Alvarez. It's drizzled most of the day but we still go the work done.

Today was clearing up from a previous slave day. So it was about 3 hours chainsawing firewood up and then another few hours stacking it all.

Tomorrow then is one in the village. Sounds like I'll be weeding and sorting out some edging.

Hopefully Wednesday will be a chance to rest as the ME is fighting hard.

I've decided not to accept any more slave days otherwise I'll run out of time to train. People on the challenge website are doing 15 mile walks and mountain practice so I've got some catching up to do. Problem is there aren't many hills in Essex. Ah well. Time to hit the stairs.

It's been too long

It's been too long since my last confession. Oops. Wrong blog. It's been too long since my last blog entry. It's been an ups and down time with several colds one after the other and lots of work on.

So as a catch up. Yesterday was my latest slave for a day. It involved a lot of bramble clearing so my fingers are like pin cushions today.

Having said that I've done a decent session at the gym with 30 sets of weights and the 50 mins on the treadmill. Now having a well earned coffee with the England France rugby match.

Got another slave day next weekend. I'll let you know how it goes. At least the nights are lighter so I should be aw to get out and do some decent training.