Go Hard or Go Home

Well i've been doing the lot over the past week, here goes

Sat- Slow 12 mile run with Laura (fish & chips apres)
Sun- To London for Tenzing run and nets. 2-3 mile each way with full packs and then running for two hours whilst bowling and batting. (BBQ and beers and brownies!)
Mon- Comedy night @ comedy store Picadilly was absolutely brilliant and haven't laughed for two hours like that before. (definite abs workout!!) great to see the Gahans sisters from School as well.
Tues- cycle to and from work 20 miles
Wed- Gym session (90mins), to Birmingham in the evening for Snow Patrol gig which was great and some very moving and cool songs etc. Legs a bit tired.
Thurs- horizontal all day ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Fri- Gym 2hours, swim 60 lengths and sauna

Going for a swim and sauna again in a minute and then the Bath half Marathon tomorrow........
LOVE IT feeling great, but hope there's plenty in the tank for tomorrow!! aiming for 1hr 35mins?!?!?!?!?!?
After the Tenzing nets we sat down as a full team and had a brilliant chat about all things Everest at the Blanca Casa De Dolph with Mike and Helen the hosts, muchos gracias. I love the team ethos of Tenzing and feel truly honoured and excited to be part of something so passionate and special. I have made friends for life and met people with similar attributes in a hugely fun and different atmosphere. We haven't even started the trip yet, Superb. I'm getting really pumped about this thing so get on board.

Viva la bam
Vive la vida loca
Verve de va va voom

Unit

Never been skinny, it's colder.

Well, when i'm not doing 13 hour shifts cleaning the streets or sleeping i seem to be training. At least 6 days a week and on some shifts swimming lengths off nights and then hitting the sack. Laura is running 4 times a week for the Bath Half and we are just hitting the treadmill and trails regular as clockwork oranges. This has had a very strange effect on my body????
My ankles and wrists look like runners ?
I am developing the right kind of six pack?
My big thighs are less prominent and even my swede is smaller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOPE NO JOY THERE..
I am 13st 3............... I haven't been that light since about i was 15. Not complaining just don't remember ever feeling skinny. it's slightly disconcerting and hope it doesn't affect my ferocious power and roundhouse kick snap that Van-Damme taught me. Makes running a hell of a lot easier mind. Thought i'd let you know as i'm rather pleased. My ideal weight for Ironman was around this weight but thought it wouldn't happen until Nepal or beyond. I may have to watch i don't get serious issues and just disappear???
Who am I kidding my BMI is still in the overweight section for my height and I still lurve pizza and doughnuts far too much to give me any worries. Still 12stone something is a posibility for Ironman now and with the bum wee expected on Everest a distinct dream/nightmare.

Cheers fatties

Breathless cricket and Zinger time

So the 5 week to lift off mark is here and the Tenzing standards are being raised in levels of fitness, cricket and chat, i'm the exception to the rule of course. Also two massive hundreds from the Everest team figure heads Andrew 'Mr T' Strauss and Alistair 'The Chef' Cook leading the way.

So to back up the beef, I had a training weekend for ten of the team at my gaff in sunny Oxfordshire. On paper I wanted to create a tired team so that when we played some cricket during nets and a mini game we would gain some insight into the pressures and dificulties of base camp.....

Paper converted to reality!!!! Mission accomplished.

A 6 mile cross country run in glorious sunshine had the boys smiling and chatting away, so i threw in some core work and excercise to shut them up and finished with some paired hill sprints. At the end they were still laughing and smiling and happy??? GIVE EM SOME MORE...

Onto a top secret location with level 9 Cobra command clearance required for a concept i called breathless cricket. Basically you run hard all the time and push yourself to exhaustion. Result, the fella's started to waver but pushed through the 4 hour session well and earned their pint and pie in the local for a great meal and social time. The highlight being saffron ice being delivered when peach melba and pistacio were murmered, something like that... see Tooves blog which is hilarious.

Some good slepp and off to the Chilterns for a romp in the hills for 5-6 hours and a good sunday roast. All best laid plans and all that, the pubs were fully booked and the hunger mood swings became apparent. Luckily Laura was on hand to save the day and find us a buffet indian and all the bhaji you could eat... satisfaction guaranteed, we ate well and finished home with some great banter and beautiful scenery. Tenzing feeling and looking strong... i'm so proud and the competition for places and the win on the mountain feeds the mind most hours of the day and hots up the training.

GET AMONGST IT,

G