Total so far: £700.53
Text "MIFF70 £5" (without quotes) to 70070 to donate £5 to Mencap. Change the amount to whatever you are comfortable with.
Click on the "Donate Now" link in the sidebar or visit www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet.
Thanks!
A solid 10Km on the treadmill tonight to give my calf another workout. I felt some soreness in my legs through the run and also afterwards but just tiredness, not injury (I hope!). I do have some pain in my right ankle and I think I will invest in a support for the ultra on Saturday. Before the treadmill I did some core strength work. I put more effort into this than I normally do and my heart rate was high even before I started on the treadmill.
Over the last week or so I've focused a little on my kit list. Most of the equipment I need has a pretty obvious safety function and some of it will be helpful on Saturday. I have bought a foil blanket; anyone who has ever wrapped one around themselves at the end of a cold marathon will testify how warm they are! Also, a pea-less whistle (great phrase!); a desert hat with neck shield; and a tiny first aid kit that seems to weigh only fractionally more than the air that surrounds it. I've also bought some gaters to keep the sand out of my trainers. This is an essential precaution as I am told that having sand in your shoes is a sure fire way to rip your feet to shreds in the desert.
The exotic nature of the Marathon des Sables is evidenced by the fact that I've also had to buy an anti-venom kit to suck out snake or scorpion venom quickly in case of a bite. The possibility of being bitten by a snake or a scorpion fills me full of dread and yet also a sort of boyish excitement. I hope I never have to use it but you have to say, it's kind of cool to need one.
I intend to write much more about each of these precautions as I get closer to the event (and learn how to use each of them!).Tonight I may go back on the elliptical just to give my calf and ankle a full three days to rest before the 33 mile ultra on Saturday but I'll see how I feel when I get to the gym.
On the fundraising front I emailed the PR departments of all the companies listed in last week's New Scientist recruitment special (random I know, it was the first thing that came to hand!). I have also listed out all the companies in the FTSE100 and the FTSE250 and over the coming days I intend to write to the PR departments of all of those firms asking for sponsorship. If you work for a company who might be willing to sponsor an honest and hardworking Welsh boy to do something a little useful with his life then please get in touch!
Thanks for reading folks! Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 6.25 miles
Time 0:59:15 hrs
Elliptical 0 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 15 mins
TOTAL
Distance 344.48 miles
Time 62:51:43
Elliptical 16:11 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 12,500 m
Sauna 6:35 mins
Contact me: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be cool and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Pity My Feet is a training and fitness blog that chronicles the misadventures of an aging demotivated wanna-be athlete with a penchant for making bad exercise related life choices. Currently in training for Iron Man Wales 2014. Don't ask why.
Showing posts with label elliptical trainer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elliptical trainer. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Friday, 13 January 2012
Thursday 12th January 2012 - Another treadmill test
Total so far: £695.53
Text "MIFF70 £5" (without quotes) to 70070 to donate £5 to Mencap. Change the amount to whatever you are comfortable with.
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Thanks!
Well I gave my legs another tester on the treadmill. This time I did a mile at roughly 11 mpm pace. The good news is that I did it. The bad news is that I felt some pain in my lower right leg. I just don't know if this is a sign that the leg is not healed or whether it's just that I haven't run on it for a month and that I'm now stretching around the scar tissue after the muscle tear. I wasn't limping and the pain wasn't severe and didn't linger long after I finished. I have a rest day today and I think I will avoid the treadmill at the weekend and stick to the elliptical just to be safe and then next week I'll test it again. However, I have booked myself a "do or die" challenge the following weekend. The Anglesey ultra-marathon. It's a 33 mile off-road course. I know, I know. I never was the sharpest pin in the cushion but it's all off road and I intend to walk a lot of it and use it to test my kit out (cooker, dried food, etc). I will probably have three or four days of complete rest afterwards and see where I am after that. Keep everything crossed for me!
So anyway, after the mile on the treadmill I did 77 minutes on the elliptical (eqiuvalent to 7 miles at 11mpm) and then went home. I didn't even shower at the gym because I was worried about my legs so instead I got home and sat in a deep hot bath for a while. As I write this (7am the following morning) I have no pain and can stand easily on my toes.
On the fundraising front the fund I got another £41 in donations. Thank you Zoe & Pyme and thank you to the two folks who donated via SMS. With the uncounted money that is sitting in the collection pot I'm using for leafleting I know I now have over £700 in the total. Thank you :)
Lastly, I got my photo taken for the Whitchurch Herald. Hopefully they will feature it in next week's edition. I made some changes for the photo though after the unflattering one that was in the Leader. I lost the hat! Fingers crossed that it generates some more sponsorship. I also sent some text to the "Essentially Yours" magazine and with any luck I'll be in the next edition. Rest day tomorrow!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 1 miles
Time 0:11 hrs
Elliptical 1:17 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 328.91 miles
Time 60:18:06
Elliptical 16:11 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 12,500 m
Sauna 6:20 mins
Contact me: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be cool and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" (without quotes) to 70070 to donate £5 to Mencap. Change the amount to whatever you are comfortable with.
Click on the "Donate Now" link in the sidebar or visit www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet.
Thanks!
Well I gave my legs another tester on the treadmill. This time I did a mile at roughly 11 mpm pace. The good news is that I did it. The bad news is that I felt some pain in my lower right leg. I just don't know if this is a sign that the leg is not healed or whether it's just that I haven't run on it for a month and that I'm now stretching around the scar tissue after the muscle tear. I wasn't limping and the pain wasn't severe and didn't linger long after I finished. I have a rest day today and I think I will avoid the treadmill at the weekend and stick to the elliptical just to be safe and then next week I'll test it again. However, I have booked myself a "do or die" challenge the following weekend. The Anglesey ultra-marathon. It's a 33 mile off-road course. I know, I know. I never was the sharpest pin in the cushion but it's all off road and I intend to walk a lot of it and use it to test my kit out (cooker, dried food, etc). I will probably have three or four days of complete rest afterwards and see where I am after that. Keep everything crossed for me!
So anyway, after the mile on the treadmill I did 77 minutes on the elliptical (eqiuvalent to 7 miles at 11mpm) and then went home. I didn't even shower at the gym because I was worried about my legs so instead I got home and sat in a deep hot bath for a while. As I write this (7am the following morning) I have no pain and can stand easily on my toes.
On the fundraising front the fund I got another £41 in donations. Thank you Zoe & Pyme and thank you to the two folks who donated via SMS. With the uncounted money that is sitting in the collection pot I'm using for leafleting I know I now have over £700 in the total. Thank you :)
Lastly, I got my photo taken for the Whitchurch Herald. Hopefully they will feature it in next week's edition. I made some changes for the photo though after the unflattering one that was in the Leader. I lost the hat! Fingers crossed that it generates some more sponsorship. I also sent some text to the "Essentially Yours" magazine and with any luck I'll be in the next edition. Rest day tomorrow!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 1 miles
Time 0:11 hrs
Elliptical 1:17 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 328.91 miles
Time 60:18:06
Elliptical 16:11 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 12,500 m
Sauna 6:20 mins
Contact me: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be cool and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Wednesday 11th January 2012 - Back on my toes
I ran tonight. For the first time since the 17th December I got on my toes and ran. OK, it was only for half a mile and it was on a treadmill and it was very slow. But I ran! I had a few natural twinges and pains but nothing specifically in the area of the torn muscle and nothing that has lingered to the morning (I'm writing this the day after). I think tonight I will risk taking a mile of my plan and doing it on the treadmill to see how it goes. If I can get off the elliptical and back on my toes it will do my confidence a lot of good. For all the nerves I had stepping on the mill; it felt fantastic to be running again!!!
The rest of the workout seems a little irrelevant but I'll relate them anyway. I started with some core exercises (bridges etc - how boring they are!), then the treadmill for half a mile, then an hour on the elliptical (I finished Lord of the Rings!), 60 lengths in the pool, and finally a quick ten minutes in the sauna to finish off.
On the fundraising front I contacted a couple more newspapers and also one radio station to see about publicity. Oh, and I asked Mencap for a branded t-shirt to wear when collecting so I look less like some dodgy geezer embezzling fag money from passers by and more like a dedicated and hard working charity fundraiser trying desperately to meet his target! The fund went up by £35 today. Thank you Joe and thank you Joanne (great advice about my feet!!).
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0.5 miles
Time 0:06 hrs
Elliptical 1:00 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 1500 m
Sauna 10 mins
TOTAL
Distance 327.91 miles
Time 60:07:06
Elliptical 14:54 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 12,500 m
Sauna 6:20 mins
Contact me: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be cool and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
The rest of the workout seems a little irrelevant but I'll relate them anyway. I started with some core exercises (bridges etc - how boring they are!), then the treadmill for half a mile, then an hour on the elliptical (I finished Lord of the Rings!), 60 lengths in the pool, and finally a quick ten minutes in the sauna to finish off.
On the fundraising front I contacted a couple more newspapers and also one radio station to see about publicity. Oh, and I asked Mencap for a branded t-shirt to wear when collecting so I look less like some dodgy geezer embezzling fag money from passers by and more like a dedicated and hard working charity fundraiser trying desperately to meet his target! The fund went up by £35 today. Thank you Joe and thank you Joanne (great advice about my feet!!).
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0.5 miles
Time 0:06 hrs
Elliptical 1:00 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 1500 m
Sauna 10 mins
TOTAL
Distance 327.91 miles
Time 60:07:06
Elliptical 14:54 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 12,500 m
Sauna 6:20 mins
Contact me: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be cool and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Tuesday 10th January 2012 - 2:48 hrs elliptical
Fourteen miles on my plan tonight so I translated that to 2hrs 48 mins on the elliptical. I forgot my ipod and so it was gym dance music all the way again. Like alcohol, I think your tolerance increases through exposure so the impulse to claw my ears from my head was lessened this time around. Although the version of "With or Without You" they played should be criminalised.
Anyway, I took my kindle and so I was able to take my mind off the effort and the music by reading more of Lord of the Rings. Gollum fell into Mount Doom with the ring last night so to be honest the time absolutely flew by. In fact I came to the end of the session before I came to the end of the book and was a little disappointed to have to leave it! But on the whole I was very pleased with the work I did. I found it much easier than the 14 miles I did last week with no 'wobbliness' when I got off the machine like I had had on previous sessions. One problem I did have though is that my jogging bottoms have rubbed the front of my thighs so much that they are red raw and stung like crazy in the pool.
After the elliptical I went down to the pool and eeked out 20 minutes in the sauna although I had to have several cold showers to get me through it because my body was still hot after the workout. Finally I threw in 10 lengths to cool me down. It might have been 12 though, after the depressing realisation that I had lost count. Quite a feat considering I was only counting to ten!!
A great day on the fundraising front too. The total has gone up to £619.53, plus I have some uncounted money in my pot from the weekend to add yet. Thank you Bridget, Nigel and those who donated anonymously through SMS. I'm very grateful. I got my event featured on my work's intranet and had a long talk to a journalist from the Whitchurch Herald. I am going on Thursday to have some new photos taken (note to self.... pull tummy in for photo!). Hopefully they will run a story on me next week. Fingers crossed! I also wrote letters to the managers of Tesco, Sainsbury, ASDA, and Morrisons supermarkets in Wrexham, Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch. The letters ask for donations and also ask for permission to run collections at their sites. Fingers crossed again!
Phew, busy day!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0 hrs
Elliptical 2:48 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 20
Swimming 250 m
Sauna 20 mins
TOTAL
Distance 327.41 miles
Time 60:01:06
Elliptical 13:54 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 11,000 m
Sauna 6:10 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £619.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Anyway, I took my kindle and so I was able to take my mind off the effort and the music by reading more of Lord of the Rings. Gollum fell into Mount Doom with the ring last night so to be honest the time absolutely flew by. In fact I came to the end of the session before I came to the end of the book and was a little disappointed to have to leave it! But on the whole I was very pleased with the work I did. I found it much easier than the 14 miles I did last week with no 'wobbliness' when I got off the machine like I had had on previous sessions. One problem I did have though is that my jogging bottoms have rubbed the front of my thighs so much that they are red raw and stung like crazy in the pool.
After the elliptical I went down to the pool and eeked out 20 minutes in the sauna although I had to have several cold showers to get me through it because my body was still hot after the workout. Finally I threw in 10 lengths to cool me down. It might have been 12 though, after the depressing realisation that I had lost count. Quite a feat considering I was only counting to ten!!
A great day on the fundraising front too. The total has gone up to £619.53, plus I have some uncounted money in my pot from the weekend to add yet. Thank you Bridget, Nigel and those who donated anonymously through SMS. I'm very grateful. I got my event featured on my work's intranet and had a long talk to a journalist from the Whitchurch Herald. I am going on Thursday to have some new photos taken (note to self.... pull tummy in for photo!). Hopefully they will run a story on me next week. Fingers crossed! I also wrote letters to the managers of Tesco, Sainsbury, ASDA, and Morrisons supermarkets in Wrexham, Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch. The letters ask for donations and also ask for permission to run collections at their sites. Fingers crossed again!
Phew, busy day!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0 hrs
Elliptical 2:48 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 20
Swimming 250 m
Sauna 20 mins
TOTAL
Distance 327.41 miles
Time 60:01:06
Elliptical 13:54 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 620
Swimming 11,000 m
Sauna 6:10 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £619.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP.
There are 1.5 million people in the UK with a learning disability. Most are treated as ‘different’ however with the right support people with a learning disability can have access to education, jobs and an independent place to live. Mencap works with people with a learning disability to help them live the lives they want.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Saturday 7th January 2011 - 4:50 hrs Elliptical
My training plan called for 24 miles today but my calf is still in no fit shape to take that kind of distance. So, how to replace that with elliptical training? Well, I calculated 12 minutes per mile which works out at 4 hrs 48 mins. In my planning I had figured on rounding it up to 5 hours but as it turned out I did 4 hrs 50 mins because of a toilet related timing issue. (basically the machine kept re-setting every time I went to the toilet and I ran out of time to stay for the last ten).
I don't know if any of you have ever spent that long on an elliptical trainer (or any other fixed exercise machine I guess) but it's a uniquely boring way of inflicting pain on yourself. The elliptical trainer specialises in causing thigh and buttock pain and thus that is what I am suffering now. By the time I got off the thing I could barely move my legs. I was hungry, thirsty, and moving with the grace of a badly constructed robot. The busy gym into which I had walked five hours earlier was empty and they had turned off the relentlessly optimistic dance music that I'd listened to throughout my ordeal. I used to like dance music but now whenever I hear it I get a pavlovian response and start limping.
To be fair though, it's a great gym and the staff had no issue with me hogging one machine for so long. There was always at least one free machine and if they'd have all been taken I'd probably have done the decent thing and got off it to let someone else have a go. As it turned out I was OK to stay on it.
During the workout I drank 3 litres of fluid; 1.5 of lucozade energy drink and 1.5 of water. I also ate a flapjack and an energy bar. I didn't count them exactly but I think it was about 800 calories with something over 2,000 burned. So hopefully tonight I have 1,200 calories worth of love handle less than I had this morning.
Tomorrow is leaflet dropping day. If you see me out come and say "hi" :)
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 4:50hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 11:06 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 500
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £493.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
I don't know if any of you have ever spent that long on an elliptical trainer (or any other fixed exercise machine I guess) but it's a uniquely boring way of inflicting pain on yourself. The elliptical trainer specialises in causing thigh and buttock pain and thus that is what I am suffering now. By the time I got off the thing I could barely move my legs. I was hungry, thirsty, and moving with the grace of a badly constructed robot. The busy gym into which I had walked five hours earlier was empty and they had turned off the relentlessly optimistic dance music that I'd listened to throughout my ordeal. I used to like dance music but now whenever I hear it I get a pavlovian response and start limping.
To be fair though, it's a great gym and the staff had no issue with me hogging one machine for so long. There was always at least one free machine and if they'd have all been taken I'd probably have done the decent thing and got off it to let someone else have a go. As it turned out I was OK to stay on it.
During the workout I drank 3 litres of fluid; 1.5 of lucozade energy drink and 1.5 of water. I also ate a flapjack and an energy bar. I didn't count them exactly but I think it was about 800 calories with something over 2,000 burned. So hopefully tonight I have 1,200 calories worth of love handle less than I had this morning.
Tomorrow is leaflet dropping day. If you see me out come and say "hi" :)
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 4:50hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 11:06 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 500
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £493.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Thursday 5th January 2012 - 90 minutes elliptical
Eight miles on the schedule for tonight so I rounded it up to 90 minutes on the elliptical and read more of the Lord of the Rings with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers playing in my ears. Definitely a very different experience from slogging along frozen lanes being freaked out by scary cow eyes in the dark. It was short and sweet though, straight in, sweat it up for an hour and a half and straight out! (After a shower of course!).
Sadly I didn't have time for any of the niceties like saunas or pool splashing. That'll have to wait. Oh, I also did some press-ups during the day. Not really part of my training to do them but I use them as a deterrent to laziness. Working from home is not good for me because I need some peer pressure to stop me being idle. So I have a tactic that whenever I catch myself idling I drop and give myself 20 (I'd have made a great drill seargant). It's a sign of what an idle day I've had that I did 100 of the wretched things through the day!!
I picked up my new leaflets today, ready for a long day of leaflet dropping on Sunday. They look quite good. Cheap obviously but that's probably no bad thing considering I'm basically begging for money with them. If they were too swish people would figure I didn't need the cash! I also got a box full of collection boxes from Mencap; and some stickers for the next time I'm collecting. If you know a business that would be able to host one for a few months please let me know! Ideally
places that trade a lot of cash and have a lot of generous customers!
I also got some text donations through (thank you Vicky and Dan!!). I hope to get a few more over the weekend when I start dropping the leaflets off. Oh, and I also finally replied to Wrexham Football Club and to the Wrexham Evening Leader. Both had offered to help me promote the event before Christmas but I lost so much motivation during my injury that I had followed neither of them up until today. Hopefully I'll get a positive response from them both.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 1:30 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 100
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 6:16 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 500
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £483.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Sadly I didn't have time for any of the niceties like saunas or pool splashing. That'll have to wait. Oh, I also did some press-ups during the day. Not really part of my training to do them but I use them as a deterrent to laziness. Working from home is not good for me because I need some peer pressure to stop me being idle. So I have a tactic that whenever I catch myself idling I drop and give myself 20 (I'd have made a great drill seargant). It's a sign of what an idle day I've had that I did 100 of the wretched things through the day!!
I picked up my new leaflets today, ready for a long day of leaflet dropping on Sunday. They look quite good. Cheap obviously but that's probably no bad thing considering I'm basically begging for money with them. If they were too swish people would figure I didn't need the cash! I also got a box full of collection boxes from Mencap; and some stickers for the next time I'm collecting. If you know a business that would be able to host one for a few months please let me know! Ideally
places that trade a lot of cash and have a lot of generous customers!
I also got some text donations through (thank you Vicky and Dan!!). I hope to get a few more over the weekend when I start dropping the leaflets off. Oh, and I also finally replied to Wrexham Football Club and to the Wrexham Evening Leader. Both had offered to help me promote the event before Christmas but I lost so much motivation during my injury that I had followed neither of them up until today. Hopefully I'll get a positive response from them both.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 1:30 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 100
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 0 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 6:16 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 500
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £483.53.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Text "MIFF70 £5" to 70070
or just click on the "Donate Now" link on the sidebar.
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Wednesday 4th January 2012 - 66 mins elliptical
I was working in Milton Keynes today (about 130 miles / 200 km from home) so by the time I arrived at the gym I was feeling pretty jaded after the long drive. However I blew away the cobwebs with some core strength exercises and then it was on to see my new best friend. The elliptical trainer. My plan said just 6 miles today so I figured at 11 minutes per mile and did 66 minutes. I upped the level a bit from what I'd done the day before and also upped the cadence by between 10 and 20 reps per minute. Especially when "Common People" came on my ipod shuffle!
After the elliptical I went down the pool and rested on a lounger (tough life eh?) for a bit before jumping in and doing 60 lengths to finish. I then chilled out with my calves in the spa for a bit and into the sauna.
One problem I had was that I forgot to take a water bottle so had to rely on the little plastic cups at the gym. The cup holders on the ellipticals are too big to hold them so I couldn't take any water during my time on there. I built up a huge thirst and so gulped a lot as soon as I finished. In fact I found myself gulping cups of water rather than sipping like I would do from the bottle and eventually I had a belly full of water that wouldn't budge. This meant that I couldn't stomach enough water in the sauna and had to abandon and hit the steam room for the last bit.
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 1:06 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 1500 m
Sauna 20 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 4:46 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 400
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £481.53.
If you haven't already donated then take a look at http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet and help the wonderful work of MENCAP. Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored already. I respect and love you all!!!
Remember that you can now donate by sending a text to 70070 saying (without quotes) "MIFF70 £5" but replacing the £5 with any amount you wish to donate. I've tested it to make sure it works and it's EASY EASY EASY!!! Try it!
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
After the elliptical I went down the pool and rested on a lounger (tough life eh?) for a bit before jumping in and doing 60 lengths to finish. I then chilled out with my calves in the spa for a bit and into the sauna.
One problem I had was that I forgot to take a water bottle so had to rely on the little plastic cups at the gym. The cup holders on the ellipticals are too big to hold them so I couldn't take any water during my time on there. I built up a huge thirst and so gulped a lot as soon as I finished. In fact I found myself gulping cups of water rather than sipping like I would do from the bottle and eventually I had a belly full of water that wouldn't budge. This meant that I couldn't stomach enough water in the sauna and had to abandon and hit the steam room for the last bit.
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 1:06 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 1500 m
Sauna 20 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 4:46 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 400
Swimming 10,750 m
Sauna 5:50 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £481.53.
If you haven't already donated then take a look at http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet and help the wonderful work of MENCAP. Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored already. I respect and love you all!!!
Remember that you can now donate by sending a text to 70070 saying (without quotes) "MIFF70 £5" but replacing the £5 with any amount you wish to donate. I've tested it to make sure it works and it's EASY EASY EASY!!! Try it!
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Tuesday 3rd December 2012 - 2:25 hrs Elliptical
So here's the theory. I follow my training plan to the letter, except for one thing. I replace running with elliptical trainer, erm, training. I take an average minute per mile time to work out how long a given run will last and then programme the trainer for the same amount of time. Ergo, I do the same work, get the same benefit as I would running except that I don't put any strain on my calf.
Perfect right? Well yes, except for the fact that when I think about why I love running I think about the fresh air, the scenery, the chance meetings of friends and friendly strangers on the lanes. A look at clear starry skies. A battle through wind and rain to bring a triumphant feel to the run's end. None of this can be re-created on an elliptical trainer.
But I'm a positive person so I'll focus on the things that are better on a trainer than on a road. Firstly music. I never listen to my ipod on the lanes because sadly some people are nutters behind a wheel and I need to know when cars are approaching in case I have to leap out the way. Since starting my training I've had three or four scary near misses and it's simply not safe to run without being able to hear the approach of potential four wheeled doom. So tonight on the elliptical I blasted a pretty awesome Heavy Rock playlist directly into the part of the brain that makes the legs move. Secondly, and most unlikely, reading. Clearly it's not practical to read a book while out running. However tonight on the elliptical I managed to read about 100 pages of the Lord of the Rings. In fact I got so absorbed in it that almost an hour of my workout passed by without me even thinking about it!
So that leads me nicely onto tonight's training. It was supposed to be a 14 mile run so I calculated 14 x 12 minute miles gives 168 minutes, or 2 hours and 48 minutes. Sadly I arrived at the gym just a little too late to do the entire amount so I only ended up doing 2 hours and 25 minutes. Even so I'm pretty pleased with it. No pain in my calf and enough work to leave me feeling tired. An odd thing, at one point I lost the feeling in both legs below the knees. It sounds a lot more dramatic than it was but it certainly made for an interesting walk (well, shuffle) to the loo half way through!
Activity on the fundraising front. I got 2,000 copies of the leaflets I designed printed up today (I know... I couldn't believe how quickly they could do it either!!). So at the weekend I'll be out delivering them through some letterboxes. I intend to use it as a training day, albeit with no running. I'll give the backpack a go and take my cooker and some dried food out so I can try to get used to the self-sufficiency thing; cooking my food and hot drinks all day. If you get a leaflet through your door please be kind to it and please be kind to me and send me a little donation!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 2:25 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 15 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 3:40 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 400
Swimming 9250 m
Sauna 5:30 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £481.53.
If you haven't already donated then take a look at http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet and help the wonderful work of MENCAP. Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored already. I respect and love you all!!!
Remember that you can now donate by sending a text to 70070 saying (without quotes) "MIFF70 £5" but replacing the £5 with any amount you wish to donate. I've tested it to make sure it works and it's EASY EASY EASY!!! Try it!
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
Perfect right? Well yes, except for the fact that when I think about why I love running I think about the fresh air, the scenery, the chance meetings of friends and friendly strangers on the lanes. A look at clear starry skies. A battle through wind and rain to bring a triumphant feel to the run's end. None of this can be re-created on an elliptical trainer.
But I'm a positive person so I'll focus on the things that are better on a trainer than on a road. Firstly music. I never listen to my ipod on the lanes because sadly some people are nutters behind a wheel and I need to know when cars are approaching in case I have to leap out the way. Since starting my training I've had three or four scary near misses and it's simply not safe to run without being able to hear the approach of potential four wheeled doom. So tonight on the elliptical I blasted a pretty awesome Heavy Rock playlist directly into the part of the brain that makes the legs move. Secondly, and most unlikely, reading. Clearly it's not practical to read a book while out running. However tonight on the elliptical I managed to read about 100 pages of the Lord of the Rings. In fact I got so absorbed in it that almost an hour of my workout passed by without me even thinking about it!
So that leads me nicely onto tonight's training. It was supposed to be a 14 mile run so I calculated 14 x 12 minute miles gives 168 minutes, or 2 hours and 48 minutes. Sadly I arrived at the gym just a little too late to do the entire amount so I only ended up doing 2 hours and 25 minutes. Even so I'm pretty pleased with it. No pain in my calf and enough work to leave me feeling tired. An odd thing, at one point I lost the feeling in both legs below the knees. It sounds a lot more dramatic than it was but it certainly made for an interesting walk (well, shuffle) to the loo half way through!
Activity on the fundraising front. I got 2,000 copies of the leaflets I designed printed up today (I know... I couldn't believe how quickly they could do it either!!). So at the weekend I'll be out delivering them through some letterboxes. I intend to use it as a training day, albeit with no running. I'll give the backpack a go and take my cooker and some dried food out so I can try to get used to the self-sufficiency thing; cooking my food and hot drinks all day. If you get a leaflet through your door please be kind to it and please be kind to me and send me a little donation!
Peace, out.
JUST THE FACTS!!
Weight: 79.6 Kg
TODAY
Distance 0 miles
Time 0
Elliptical 2:25 hrs
Kcal 0
Press-ups 0
Swimming 0 m
Sauna 15 mins
TOTAL
Distance 315.28 miles
Time 54:50:38
Elliptical 3:40 hrs
Kcal 34,388
Press-ups 400
Swimming 9250 m
Sauna 5:30 mins
FUNDRAISING
The fund is at £481.53.
If you haven't already donated then take a look at http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet and help the wonderful work of MENCAP. Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored already. I respect and love you all!!!
Remember that you can now donate by sending a text to 70070 saying (without quotes) "MIFF70 £5" but replacing the £5 with any amount you wish to donate. I've tested it to make sure it works and it's EASY EASY EASY!!! Try it!
Feel free to contact me with any fundraising ideas you have. You can email me at: miffjacobs@hotmail.com
DONATE
Please remember that I'm inflicting all this pain and misery on myself for a cause greater than just having a good story to tell over a beer. I hope to raise over £9,500 for MENCAP; an amazing charity who help those born with learning difficulties to live a normal life and to enjoy the same opportunities and choices that the rest of us take for granted.
Be an awesome human being today and click on the link below and help make someone's life better.
Thank you. You really ARE awesome.
http://www.justgiving.com/pitymyfeet
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