You'll by now have noticed that little blue box lurking on the right asking for money. Yep, I'd like you to sponsor me please! You will remember that this all started last year when I competed in the Tri for Life at Eton near Windsor. Well, I'm doing it again, and there are three VERY good reasons why I'm asking you to sponsor me.
1. When I did it last year I had wonky knees and couldn't run before the Big Day. This year I not only have a pulled hamstring, courtesy of being a pantomime cow, but also iliotibial band syndrome and an empty swimming pool. As of today I can't run (only one working knee), can't cycle (ditto) and can't swim (no water in pool). This is what the pool should look like:
Note the important points here: (a) relaxing ambience (b) pleasant outlook (c) lack of tools and (d) water. Especially note (d).
What we currently have is this:
You see the problem - neither (a), (b), (c) nor especially (d). Even if we turned the tap on there's no motor - the prop shaft shattered so the water doesn't move. I could do two strokes to make a length... except we've now ripped the liner out, so the water wouldn't stay put anyway.
Back to why you should sponsor me:
2. It's for a REALLY good cause - well, four causes this year. Tri for Life pools all the money raised and splits it between four charities. This year they are Breakthrough Breast Cancer, WhizzKidz, Rays of Sunshine and Great Ormond Street. Just have a look at the links on the 'charities' page of the Tri for Life website and you'll see what great work they do. Last year you helped me raise a fantastic £560. This year my aim is to raise £1,000. I'd like to be in the top 5 of the charity fund raisers. Well, let's face it, I'm not going to come in the top 5 triathletes, am I?!
3. Because I'm a cool and sophisticated person. I can prove this... On Saturday Guy and I went to watch the test match between Sri Lanka and England at Cardiff. The marvellous team at TMS frequently described the spectators as 'hardy'. Too right - it was FREEZING! Also wet, and very windy. I wore a very fetching rain hat and spent a good deal of the afternoon with a Sky camera pointing at us in the crowd. Because I looked cool. At some stage the rain stopped and I took the hat off. It was only after we got home, some hours later, that I ran my hand over what was left of my hairdo and discovered the label from the inside of the hat stuck to my hair. So the question is, just how many hours had I been wearing a 'Liz Claiborne - Small, Rainproof' sticker on my head? See - cool.
For any of you that are TMS followers, we made them a cake...
They posted it to Flickr and so far it's been viewed over 6,400 times... nice comments too. We particularly like 'Cracking cake Gromit' from Severn Coracle... still not entirely sure how Flickr works, but we're working on it. Been playing with Twitter too. Any tips as to what we're meant to do on it?
So that's it for this week - no training, no pool, one working knee, but tremendous wet weather training undertaken at the test match. This week we are looking forward to Chiselling Rust Off Pool Walls and Repainting With Hammerite.
All good arm strengthening stuff...
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