Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Thanks Mr Nobody........
I have some ideas who you are with such a massive donation (£500) but i will just say an enormous thanks for your generosity and will make you proud. Woweeeee thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Kit Kat time
Since the New Year I have upped the intensity of my training quite a bit and therefore having been eating a wee bit more!!! However Laura my girlfriend has been away for two weeks and so the slippery slope developes. Shopping on my own with no dairy free eating woman in my ear.......
KIT KAT's pack of 5, 2for the price of one...game over i'll take 4. Pizza....treat yourself G go one. Apple pie yep, cream? Double every time. Pork pies, nuts, choc chip cookies, etc etc. Suffice it to say no weight has been lost in the past fortnight.. I have been good with homemade stews and fajitas as well!! no-one buying it? Okay i'm back in the game and chocolate free until after Everest, well until that cadbury's cream egg easter advertising push when i start dreaming of a cream egg i can swim in ohHHHHHHH like living in a house sized doughnut.....yummy.
Well February is here and half a stone needs to go before April, luckily with a little effort in normally goes so cycling 70 miler tomorrow to Tunbridge Wells and will try and stop Laura's lovely Mum Glynis from spoiling her favourite future son-in-law. Meow!!!!!!!!!
My Dad has contacted family and friends about the cause and been a leg-end recently getting behind the cause so thanks Papa san. Welcome those of you new to my Blog. Thanks for your support and spread the word.
A guy at my work is doing a body building competition this summer and is currently 16st looking to put more on then cut it down lean to 13 and a half st in 10 weeks!?!?!? Hope for us all.
MANIAC
Stay away from shopping hungry, G
KIT KAT's pack of 5, 2for the price of one...game over i'll take 4. Pizza....treat yourself G go one. Apple pie yep, cream? Double every time. Pork pies, nuts, choc chip cookies, etc etc. Suffice it to say no weight has been lost in the past fortnight.. I have been good with homemade stews and fajitas as well!! no-one buying it? Okay i'm back in the game and chocolate free until after Everest, well until that cadbury's cream egg easter advertising push when i start dreaming of a cream egg i can swim in ohHHHHHHH like living in a house sized doughnut.....yummy.
Well February is here and half a stone needs to go before April, luckily with a little effort in normally goes so cycling 70 miler tomorrow to Tunbridge Wells and will try and stop Laura's lovely Mum Glynis from spoiling her favourite future son-in-law. Meow!!!!!!!!!
My Dad has contacted family and friends about the cause and been a leg-end recently getting behind the cause so thanks Papa san. Welcome those of you new to my Blog. Thanks for your support and spread the word.
A guy at my work is doing a body building competition this summer and is currently 16st looking to put more on then cut it down lean to 13 and a half st in 10 weeks!?!?!? Hope for us all.
MANIAC
Stay away from shopping hungry, G
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Rage David in Herefordshire
Chums
Well 23 Everestors made it to Farmer Kinsey "BOOM BOOM" Herns chicken and apples farm in HEREFORSHIRE. 23 made it out in one piece as well.
I made it in complete leisure on Friday after travelling up with Nick Mullineaux from Oxford and we had time to take to the fields around the farm for a hour walk before checking in with Kinsey folks and arriving 4 hours arlier than expected. A great feed and catch up with the crew ensued before team sleeping in the local village hall. Anyone would think it was cold as the girls cranked the heat upto 33degrees which meant i got about 38mins sleep. Great.
So the big day arrived and events and results went something like this: -
Bleep test (3rd) very happy with this and my best test so far at level 13 in a chicken shed!!!
Caveman (8th ish) Rubbish at tossing a big stone over my head, disappointing.
As a reasonably fit guy i had been seeded in the top four for the weekend and needed some points in the strength events to cling on to the whippet runners, not a good start.
Michellin MAN: Hilarious team event in which we rolled a 5ft high tractor tyre around a 100m square course in teams of six. With a team of two girls against other teams with 1 girl we somehow won the event by a second with a photo finish and some high fives and shouting. More like it.
Team G next did a sterling job in stacking big stones on pallets game ( manual labour for the farm), we were robbed by some rule changes mid game, biased reffing and jealousy to be honest and my calm exterior and politness went AWOL as did my initial impression on new friends as i threw my toys into the sheep sh$t and started my noisy cross-examination of anyone and everyone. BULLONI. No change 3rd place and brimming with fury.
After lunch we started with the SCARECROW pushing those swiss roll style bails O'hay around a slalom stlye course. Going last i was seriously pumped about this one, started like a dream getting a head start in a one on one race with Kimi the tournament favourite and eventual winner. Turning after the slalom completed all i had to do was turn and burn it in to the end. What happened next can only be compared to a scarecrow brain fart. I hit every slalom barrier on the way back and decided to just power through which just hit the brakes on my Bail O'hay and Kiwi flew right by (film?) gutted I brought the dried grass home in 7th place when a W was well within my powers.
TUG OF WAR: Disasterous, Milo, Hog and myself would have done better standing on the rope rather than slip sliding ourselves to 3 losses and the girls were at a loss at our ineptitude and I soon lost the plot and let out somemore growls of rage.
Last up was the five mile finisher with a few hills. More like 6 miles and vertical travalators with quick sand fields. Gave it my all and then some with the tank feeling good and brought it home in third. Some great running with the top 7 guys going under 49 mins and looking strong. A good finish to a tough but very fun and productive day. Finished off with 9 pints of cider and a steak, grrrreat.
Overall i finished 11th with some email replying points on offer!!!!! When the mouse clicking was taken out I was a respectable 6th overall and therfore content ish with my labours and that my training and hard work wasn't a waste. Highlights include Tooves getting beaten by girls, Hog trying to crush himself like a worm with a big rock, our one win, the great attitude from all the girls and beef and banter from the lads. Amazingly well organised and executed from Kins and great team building weekend.
Well 23 Everestors made it to Farmer Kinsey "BOOM BOOM" Herns chicken and apples farm in HEREFORSHIRE. 23 made it out in one piece as well.
I made it in complete leisure on Friday after travelling up with Nick Mullineaux from Oxford and we had time to take to the fields around the farm for a hour walk before checking in with Kinsey folks and arriving 4 hours arlier than expected. A great feed and catch up with the crew ensued before team sleeping in the local village hall. Anyone would think it was cold as the girls cranked the heat upto 33degrees which meant i got about 38mins sleep. Great.
So the big day arrived and events and results went something like this: -
Bleep test (3rd) very happy with this and my best test so far at level 13 in a chicken shed!!!
Caveman (8th ish) Rubbish at tossing a big stone over my head, disappointing.
As a reasonably fit guy i had been seeded in the top four for the weekend and needed some points in the strength events to cling on to the whippet runners, not a good start.
Michellin MAN: Hilarious team event in which we rolled a 5ft high tractor tyre around a 100m square course in teams of six. With a team of two girls against other teams with 1 girl we somehow won the event by a second with a photo finish and some high fives and shouting. More like it.
Team G next did a sterling job in stacking big stones on pallets game ( manual labour for the farm), we were robbed by some rule changes mid game, biased reffing and jealousy to be honest and my calm exterior and politness went AWOL as did my initial impression on new friends as i threw my toys into the sheep sh$t and started my noisy cross-examination of anyone and everyone. BULLONI. No change 3rd place and brimming with fury.
After lunch we started with the SCARECROW pushing those swiss roll style bails O'hay around a slalom stlye course. Going last i was seriously pumped about this one, started like a dream getting a head start in a one on one race with Kimi the tournament favourite and eventual winner. Turning after the slalom completed all i had to do was turn and burn it in to the end. What happened next can only be compared to a scarecrow brain fart. I hit every slalom barrier on the way back and decided to just power through which just hit the brakes on my Bail O'hay and Kiwi flew right by (film?) gutted I brought the dried grass home in 7th place when a W was well within my powers.
TUG OF WAR: Disasterous, Milo, Hog and myself would have done better standing on the rope rather than slip sliding ourselves to 3 losses and the girls were at a loss at our ineptitude and I soon lost the plot and let out somemore growls of rage.
Last up was the five mile finisher with a few hills. More like 6 miles and vertical travalators with quick sand fields. Gave it my all and then some with the tank feeling good and brought it home in third. Some great running with the top 7 guys going under 49 mins and looking strong. A good finish to a tough but very fun and productive day. Finished off with 9 pints of cider and a steak, grrrreat.
Overall i finished 11th with some email replying points on offer!!!!! When the mouse clicking was taken out I was a respectable 6th overall and therfore content ish with my labours and that my training and hard work wasn't a waste. Highlights include Tooves getting beaten by girls, Hog trying to crush himself like a worm with a big rock, our one win, the great attitude from all the girls and beef and banter from the lads. Amazingly well organised and executed from Kins and great team building weekend.
Monday, 19 January 2009
New Charity and recent news
Hi
Check out the new donation site, http://www.justgiving.com/gateverest.
For those asking why Lords Taverners rather than Sport relief well its simple, LT were much more helpful and proactive for our small/unproffesional outfit, plus we are a cricketers!!!
The Lords Taverners coming on board makes the realms of possibility with the sponsorship even more exciting, England players, training at Lords, contacts, advice and full backing for our causes. We are all more than happy at them being our charity. We also welcome Mr Andrew Strauss as Tenzing team celeb Captain and mascot aka Mr Tenzing (Mr T) to the boys in the know.
The whole project is going from strength to strength and i'm getting very excited and nervous, I still give us a 70/30 chance of breaking the world record as it is going to be so unbelievably tough. But I know everyone is training their behinds off and we will need to.
Lots of training weekends coming up to fill you in on so stop by from time to time.
Thanks
Check out the new donation site, http://www.justgiving.com/gateverest.
For those asking why Lords Taverners rather than Sport relief well its simple, LT were much more helpful and proactive for our small/unproffesional outfit, plus we are a cricketers!!!
The Lords Taverners coming on board makes the realms of possibility with the sponsorship even more exciting, England players, training at Lords, contacts, advice and full backing for our causes. We are all more than happy at them being our charity. We also welcome Mr Andrew Strauss as Tenzing team celeb Captain and mascot aka Mr Tenzing (Mr T) to the boys in the know.
The whole project is going from strength to strength and i'm getting very excited and nervous, I still give us a 70/30 chance of breaking the world record as it is going to be so unbelievably tough. But I know everyone is training their behinds off and we will need to.
Lots of training weekends coming up to fill you in on so stop by from time to time.
Thanks
Monday, 10 November 2008
November white flag.
November is going to be a bit of a write off for me blog wise as i'm off to South Africa, Botswana and Zambia in a few days for the wedding of one of my closest friends Mr Tristan 'Arab' Elder to the lovely Bianca Aveling followed by a safari. Should be absolutely awesome and i can't wait.
I plan to drink and eat as moderately as possible due to Everest training but when on holiday??? The main aim is to see Tris and recharge my batteries but the plans are extensive with Table mountain a must, Victoria falls, beach flexing workouts, hippo wrestling, England rugby viewing, cheetah racing, beach cricket in Cape Town and the start of serious training on my return we shall aim to stay in shape.
I look forward to welcoming the new members of Tenzing on my return and the fight for those places has been fierce which is great and a tribute to the fella's. I will be at the meeting and events on the 5th of December in the smoke and look forward to a catch up with everyone then and renewed impetous.
Bye for now, G
I plan to drink and eat as moderately as possible due to Everest training but when on holiday??? The main aim is to see Tris and recharge my batteries but the plans are extensive with Table mountain a must, Victoria falls, beach flexing workouts, hippo wrestling, England rugby viewing, cheetah racing, beach cricket in Cape Town and the start of serious training on my return we shall aim to stay in shape.
I look forward to welcoming the new members of Tenzing on my return and the fight for those places has been fierce which is great and a tribute to the fella's. I will be at the meeting and events on the 5th of December in the smoke and look forward to a catch up with everyone then and renewed impetous.
Bye for now, G
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Better Blogs
Howdy
Six god damn posts in October, comedy, poetry (of sorts), videos, inspiration, perspiration but not in the top 3 blogs of the month. What the? Is it because i'm VC or just that Mark, Blinky and Tooves are much more witty and eloquent than I????hhhmmm.
Anywho will raise my game once again on all fronts to showcase my talents, the ultimate downhill video is coming and I can always put together some Napoleon Dynamite dance move video if i'm really struggling........
On a serious note I was in the Oxford Mail twice last week with a nice report although i got ripped at work for my over use of the word Awesome. Love that word. Well if i do over use it, so be it, but for this trip it cannot be over-used so shove it Party 4 Didcot massive.
I had a wee glance at Curry on everest and see he is at 65% of his total so if your not on the trip and reading this please donate to help me near my goal and I will do something AWESOME on the blog when 50% and 110% are hit.
I also went to an Ironman evening the other day to scare myself so much that fear will drive me to training for 30 weeks, so failure is not an option. Some great input especially for the simple stuff, they say what is essential is writing down your goals (60% of people who write down their goals achieve them) don't know where u get facts like that but will be writing mine down soon. Planning is also very important to vary and dicipline your training, mine is starting to look like a part time job but hey. Lastly its about enjoying your training, having realistic goals and looking after yourself. When training hard the rest time is where you gain your fitness so make sure you train hard then rest hard. My moto anyway.
If your not already signed up for Santa pub crawl on 13th Dec its genius, so do and i'll see you around.
Six god damn posts in October, comedy, poetry (of sorts), videos, inspiration, perspiration but not in the top 3 blogs of the month. What the? Is it because i'm VC or just that Mark, Blinky and Tooves are much more witty and eloquent than I????hhhmmm.
Anywho will raise my game once again on all fronts to showcase my talents, the ultimate downhill video is coming and I can always put together some Napoleon Dynamite dance move video if i'm really struggling........
On a serious note I was in the Oxford Mail twice last week with a nice report although i got ripped at work for my over use of the word Awesome. Love that word. Well if i do over use it, so be it, but for this trip it cannot be over-used so shove it Party 4 Didcot massive.
I had a wee glance at Curry on everest and see he is at 65% of his total so if your not on the trip and reading this please donate to help me near my goal and I will do something AWESOME on the blog when 50% and 110% are hit.
I also went to an Ironman evening the other day to scare myself so much that fear will drive me to training for 30 weeks, so failure is not an option. Some great input especially for the simple stuff, they say what is essential is writing down your goals (60% of people who write down their goals achieve them) don't know where u get facts like that but will be writing mine down soon. Planning is also very important to vary and dicipline your training, mine is starting to look like a part time job but hey. Lastly its about enjoying your training, having realistic goals and looking after yourself. When training hard the rest time is where you gain your fitness so make sure you train hard then rest hard. My moto anyway.
If your not already signed up for Santa pub crawl on 13th Dec its genius, so do and i'll see you around.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
IRONMAN
Does what it says on the tin.
I set myself the challenge of doing an Ironman before I was thirty when I started triathlon 2 years ago well with Everest and me being crazy I signed up to do it next June.
2.5 mile swim, 112 mile bike and then the marathon in the South of France in Summer heat.
No Worries??
Training like a mad man starting in the new year, no parties, no booze, no distraction just training to become Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong and Heille Gebreselassie rolled into one. No under 12 hours and i'll be very happy.
2009 is a big year already...............
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