First Injury

Hello again everyone, just a quick update.

Well I am now committed to doing this mad 400km cycle ride in Kenya, sent my registration off on Wednesday, so hope to get all the paper work through quite soon so I can start some serious fundrasing. Can't believe how excited I am about this venture!!

The photo is of me after a 10 mile cycle on Thursday, you can also see Holly (the black and white springer and part of Honey, the brown and white one. Spot, my other dog wasn't being very co-operative and was running around like a lunatic somewhere). Unfortunately, I have suffered my first training injury. Went for a run round Lanark racecourse of Friday morning, and my GPS had just turned the 3 mile mark when I felt an excruciating pain up the back of my right leg!!! Thankfully I wasn't far from home, so managed to limp back and put some ibuprofen gel on it and a tubigrip. Turns out I pulled my Achilles tendon, but thankfully it is a lot better today, so will give it a couple of days rest before I try anything more than walking and swimming. Just need to remember I have a year and a half to get fit for this mission, so I shouldn't try to do too much too soon.

Got my business cards through today, got them free (had to pay for postage) from Vistaprints, and basically they are to hand out to everyone I know and meet to advertise this blogspot so they can come and donate loads of money!!! Here's hoping anyway.