Here we are, Thursday and already the plan has gone out the window, courtesy of the great British weather!
Monday was indeed circuit training night. To celebrate the new school term, the circuit was called "Back to school". This entailed various different stations loosely based on school activities. These included swapsies (pick a card, reveal the exercise on the card and carry this out), sprint home (sprints on a spin cycle), sit up straight and listen (sit ups) and about 16 others that had us doing all sorts of exercises ranging from free weights to star jumps on a trampoline. It was really good, and hard work, until I came to my Nemesis station. Yes, the dreaded space hopper had once again come out to play. As you may have gathered from previous posts, me and the space hopper have come to a mutual understanding. That understanding being that it stays under me when it insists on being used and in return for not being humiliated I wont pop it or wallop it with a golf club. Monday night the space hopper agreement was broken. It may have been partly down to my new grown confidence on the space hopper having managed a few minutes one handed, when all of a sudden the space hopper shot out from under me and left me in the space hopper position (a kind of squat) with the space hopper about 3 foot behind me. This is now war with the space hopper, i looked stupid.
For several reasons (namely some dodgy food I ate on Monday) there was no running this week. However having looked out the window and seen the weather I think it would have been more a swim anyway and was quite thankful for the evenings in! The weather is meant to be rubbish over the weekend, so the sailing and rowing is going to have to be cancelled and will be replaced with a few runs and maybe some gym work. Its starting to look like the rowing and sailing sections may not be done this year and may have to wait until spring, but I can keep hoping. I think I may have to look at my sports and schedule again.
I am an instructor with the Sea Cadets at Worthing Unit and have seen how much the cadets get out of the activities they do. I have also seen how much these activities and all the surrounding admin costs. The sea cadets are a charity, and I felt this was a fantastic way of raising money for Worthing in particular and also to encourage some of the cadets to try something different. If I can do it, so can they!
The gold challenge is based on the sports in the Olympics. Some of these sports I can do with the sea cadets, and I have purposely chosen several of these to illustrate the variety of activities that can be done, whilst also doing something that I think will be fun.
My challenge is to do the following activities.
1. Swim - Learn to swim - again. For those that have seen my swimming style, it has recently been described by Mrs Lawrence as "directional panic in water". DONE
2. Canoe - Learn to canoe. I have canoed in the past, but again this was a long time ago and all the new stuff I have learnt has forced this skill out! DONE
3. Boxing – Learn to box. I needed another sport and someone I work with can train this! DONE
4. Weightlifting – For those that know me, they will know how therapeutic gym time can be for me. This is a great opportunity for me to focus some of my energy on something different in the gym. DONE
5. Triathlon. This is a personal goal, to do a half triathlon. I have never done one and this is the one element that I plan to do in 2012. This will link my swimming and gym work together. DONE
6. Athletics - sprints. I was given the oppertunity to race at the 100m olympic stadium. DONE
7. Wrestling - in the process of doing the Judo section I managed to also cover the wrestling challenge, so it seamed approapraite to include it - DONE
8. Cycling. Take part in a cycle ride or three. I'm training for a triathlon. This incorporates a cycle leg, so why not do a cycle challenge too? DONE
9. 1/2 Marathon. This is similar in theory behind the cycle ride. If I'm doing a triathlon I might as well develop it further and do a half marathon. I'm not expecting to be fast round the course, just finish and not die on the way round would be a bonus. DONE
10. Judo - Try judo. To be perfectly honest, I needed another sport, as its in multitudes of 5, and this was suggested by some one at work. DONE
The challenge is to do them by the end of 2012, but I am aiming to have most of them done by the end of 2011.
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