Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Thursday, 19 April 2012
A Liza is born in The Gambia :0)
I am very pleased to announce that my friend Ishmalia, a waiter at the Wild Monkey restaurant, and his wife have finally sent news that they have had their baby. It was a baby girl and he was true to his word and named her Liza.
This now means that the chippie and I both have name sakes in The Gambia. What would be really lovely would be for them to meet later in life, fall in love and end up together.
I am truly honoured and am looking forward to meeting her at the end of the year. I guess this will be another child to add to my sponsorship list which makes me feel very warm and fuzzy inside :0)
xXx
This now means that the chippie and I both have name sakes in The Gambia. What would be really lovely would be for them to meet later in life, fall in love and end up together.
I am truly honoured and am looking forward to meeting her at the end of the year. I guess this will be another child to add to my sponsorship list which makes me feel very warm and fuzzy inside :0)
xXx
Sunday, 15 April 2012
I am having a brilliant week!!
First, I win the first long handicap - even with a handicap of 6 minutes. This has raised my confidence in my running ability a lot.
Second, I get my 5th Tutor Marked Assignment back for the level 5 Philosophy part of my degree and I have finally broken out the 77/78% arena with an 80%.
Then, what was meant to be a normal training run on Saturday morning with Glynne saw us running 12.5 miles... just .7 short of a half marathon distance! They do say you are only supposed to up your distance by 10% a week so I have defiantly broken that rule but hey... what a frikkin achievement! I went from 10k to 7.5 miles last week and then from 7.5 to 12.5, and our pace was good, consistently within the 10/11 minute mile range.
Mum told me to buy a lottery ticket and I did and... nothing! But hey, you definitely can't have everything and I will take this week very, very gratefully!
Second, I get my 5th Tutor Marked Assignment back for the level 5 Philosophy part of my degree and I have finally broken out the 77/78% arena with an 80%.
Then, what was meant to be a normal training run on Saturday morning with Glynne saw us running 12.5 miles... just .7 short of a half marathon distance! They do say you are only supposed to up your distance by 10% a week so I have defiantly broken that rule but hey... what a frikkin achievement! I went from 10k to 7.5 miles last week and then from 7.5 to 12.5, and our pace was good, consistently within the 10/11 minute mile range.
Mum told me to buy a lottery ticket and I did and... nothing! But hey, you definitely can't have everything and I will take this week very, very gratefully!
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Making time
Two posts in two days... my pledge is working, albeit I only made it yesterday! But, long may this continue. I have been thinking this morning about how I have changed my life and made time for running, ab class, gym circuits, studying for my degree, working full time and doing all this whilst managing not to take the chippie for granted (I hope!) that surely I must be able to make time for my blog. After all, whats one more thing!
So many things have gone on in Africa recently that I would like to have written about... the over turning of the military coup in Mali, the killings in Somalia, general news from my friends in the Gambia (all of which is good news). I need to put a little bit of time aside at least every couple of days to do this. I write courses about time management for pete's sake, surely I can manage my time to fit this in!I managed to find time of the Easter break to watch over 10 episodes of Gossip Girl (my true guilty pleasure!), I must be able to do this!!!
The plans are in place, the time is pencilled in and set aside. I just need to be as organised and committed to this as I am everything else... and so, it begins. You will be hearing a lot more from me! :0)
xXx
So many things have gone on in Africa recently that I would like to have written about... the over turning of the military coup in Mali, the killings in Somalia, general news from my friends in the Gambia (all of which is good news). I need to put a little bit of time aside at least every couple of days to do this. I write courses about time management for pete's sake, surely I can manage my time to fit this in!I managed to find time of the Easter break to watch over 10 episodes of Gossip Girl (my true guilty pleasure!), I must be able to do this!!!
The plans are in place, the time is pencilled in and set aside. I just need to be as organised and committed to this as I am everything else... and so, it begins. You will be hearing a lot more from me! :0)
xXx
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Lets catch up.
Ok, so I am getting a bit lazy with this blogging thing. I started it so that I could highlight what I am doing, why I am doing it and how these things effect my life. The main effect I am finding at the moment is that I don't have time to write my blog!
So, let's catch up.
Race 3, the Bournemouth Bay 10k, went really, really well. I was aiming for an hour and crossed the finishing line in 1:00:24! Under an hour would have been amazing but hey, ho. I wanted an hour and I got it.
Last Thursday I ran my longest distance yet, a total of 7.99 miles. I felt pretty good afterwards. it wasn't going to set the timing screens a light but then neither did my first ever 10k time. I did it and I really felt good about the achievement.
This week I am running about 7 miles with the club and then Thursday is the first long handicap of the summer season. Race distance 7.5 miles!
The short handicap was a challenge. Despite being only 3.6 miles, everyone is out to get home first and it is the most competitive race I have been involved in yet. I managed to come 4th which was ok. I went of like a greyhound after the first few runners and knackered myself out so a final chase was never going to happen. I was 3rd until the last half a mile but couldn't hold of the amazing Anita and she overtook me and the others to come 1st.
So, thats all the running news to date...
Slimming world continues to be motivating. I had lost 13.5 pounds in my first 5 weeks which I was really pleased with BUT... then life got in the way, a board meeting here, a dinner out, easter bbq, easter chocolate and boom! I put on 1.5 pounds. Still, I made those choices. I can't sit here and wonder where the gain came from. I know exactly where it came from and I will get back on the straight and narrow to get rid of these offending pounds and hopefully another 7!
I would like to be 9.5 pounds lighter by April 28th when me and Miss A fly to New York City for one of the best weeks of our lives! It will be one of the holidays of a lifetime. And if I can be at my target weight by then, that will be the icing on the cake.
I have made sure that I will be able to run whilst out there, even if only on a treadmill, as the Sunday after my return will be my first ever 10 mile race. A scary but quite exciting thought!
And I think you are now all caught up. I will make a pledge to you now to be a better blogger and update you more often. After all, it is just one more thing to add to the list!
xXx
So, let's catch up.
Race 3, the Bournemouth Bay 10k, went really, really well. I was aiming for an hour and crossed the finishing line in 1:00:24! Under an hour would have been amazing but hey, ho. I wanted an hour and I got it.
Last Thursday I ran my longest distance yet, a total of 7.99 miles. I felt pretty good afterwards. it wasn't going to set the timing screens a light but then neither did my first ever 10k time. I did it and I really felt good about the achievement.
This week I am running about 7 miles with the club and then Thursday is the first long handicap of the summer season. Race distance 7.5 miles!
The short handicap was a challenge. Despite being only 3.6 miles, everyone is out to get home first and it is the most competitive race I have been involved in yet. I managed to come 4th which was ok. I went of like a greyhound after the first few runners and knackered myself out so a final chase was never going to happen. I was 3rd until the last half a mile but couldn't hold of the amazing Anita and she overtook me and the others to come 1st.
So, thats all the running news to date...
Slimming world continues to be motivating. I had lost 13.5 pounds in my first 5 weeks which I was really pleased with BUT... then life got in the way, a board meeting here, a dinner out, easter bbq, easter chocolate and boom! I put on 1.5 pounds. Still, I made those choices. I can't sit here and wonder where the gain came from. I know exactly where it came from and I will get back on the straight and narrow to get rid of these offending pounds and hopefully another 7!
I would like to be 9.5 pounds lighter by April 28th when me and Miss A fly to New York City for one of the best weeks of our lives! It will be one of the holidays of a lifetime. And if I can be at my target weight by then, that will be the icing on the cake.
I have made sure that I will be able to run whilst out there, even if only on a treadmill, as the Sunday after my return will be my first ever 10 mile race. A scary but quite exciting thought!
And I think you are now all caught up. I will make a pledge to you now to be a better blogger and update you more often. After all, it is just one more thing to add to the list!
xXx
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