Back to full fitness

Well, I have managed to do a full week of training this week. Found a nice, reasonably quiet road, that has got lots of options for doing longer distances, and lots of hills to build up my stamina. Over 3 days I managed a total of 28 miles this week, with rest days in-between. This seems to be the the best way of training according to the growing mountain of fitness magazines I seem to be collecting, train one day then have a rest day to let your muscles rest and repair. Seems to be working ok. Really tired though, think its just adjusting to my new regime.

Got another problem though, now I'm doing all this cycling, I'm still loosing weight, and I don't want to loose anymore or I'll start looking like a skeleton. So thought I'd try a protein shake to see if it would help with building muscle and keeping weight on, will let you know if it works, but not too keen on the taste of them, tried strawberry this week, but think I'll try chocolate next, so as I get my chocolate fix at the same time.

Received another letter from Action for Charity this week, in it was a list of all the names of the other ladies taking part in Cycle Kenya. Amazingly I am one of, I think, only 4 women in Scotland doing this challenge. Two of them are actually quite close by, one in Hamilton and the other from High Blantyre. The third is from Inverness. Will need to contact them and try to arrange training days and maybe a joint fund raising event. There has been such a huge response about this challenge another date has been added in November, so if you or anyone you know are interested in doing this challenge, just follow the link to their website for more info.

Next week I hope to increase my runs by about 2 miles, and continue on like that until I am cycling about 25 - 30 a run.

Need to find out when the next car boot sale is too, got lots of goodies in my van to sell an make lots of money - hopefully!! Need to email and post copies of sponsor forms to all my friends too, so they can get sponsors on my behalf.

Well it's been a long week, so will sign off now and update you all again soon.