Well, health and wellbeing certainly seems to be playing a role with our training.
In May, Paul fell off a stile, badly strained a ligament in his knee and was on crutches for 2 weeks. After 8 weeks of resting his knee, he finally went back to training a week ago. He did a 7 mile walk a week ago and a 13 mile walk last Sat but he’s concerned that he’s too slow and that we will not complete the whole challenge in 10 hours if he is with us.
In June, Mark managed to get a hairline fracture in his arm near the elbow and was in plaster for 3 weeks. He’s back playing water polo again so I think that’s a minor setback.
Last week Sarah slipped and has hurt her shin. Fortunately, it’s not broken but she says it’s painful, swollen and bruised.
As for me, well, I’m fighting fit! Which is bizarre given that I’m the one with the history of major bone injuries!
So, having gone from 6 team members down to four and with two of the remaining four injured, our challenge team is looking a little wobbly to say the least.
We now only have 5 weeks until the challenge which really means we have 4 weeks of training because we should rest the week before to get our muscles strong. I’m starting to feel a little uncomfortable now. Whilst my own training has been going well and I’m getting fitter than I’ve been in a long time, I’m still unsure about my stamina and my ability to keep going all day.
Well we won’t know unless we try will we? So, I intend to keep focussed over the next four weeks to keep raising my fitness and hope that Sarah will soon be back joining us and Paul will increase his aerobic fitness enough.
Keep routing for us! We need all the support we can get!
Speaking of support, we have now raised £1745 thanks to our family and friends who have supported events and donated online so a big THANK YOU! to all of you.
And if you have not donated yet, we still need a further £800 to reach our target of £2500 so please go to the Justgiving website at www.justgiving.com/jude-jennison. Remember, every £1 you give helps train Guide Dogs to help people who are blind and partially sighted live a life of freedom. Many of them say having their first Guide Dog changes their life and gives them the confidence to go out and live and work and have fun!
