About

This blog is mainly me documenting my attempts to get fit and lose weight. To help me do that I’ve set myself two goals:

– The first is to swim Windermere in the summer of 2013

– The second is to do 1,000kms of combined exercise per year

The swim is in homage to my Grandad who was a founder member of the BLDSA (you can go to the website here – but be warned, it’s a bit 1998!). Every year the BLDSA organises an event in Windermere, swimming the 10.5 mile length of the lake. I plan to enter (and complete it) in September 2013.

The 1,000kms is a little challenge I set myself based on triathlons. I record all the distance I achieve in training, then use a complicated sum (any swim length is doubled, running I count like for like and any cycling I divide by three) to try and off-set the effort required for each one. The goal is to do 1,000kms per year.

In my day job I run a PR agency and also do a few other things and also try to spend as much time as possible with my son.

Update – Sept 2012

So, surprisingly I managed to complete the Windermere swim this year (you can see the report here and a wider summary here). Obviously that kind of defeats the point of this blog. However, I’ve decided that I like writing it and I’m going to keep it going. I’ve still got the 1,000kms challenge to complete if I can, but I’ve also got more to say.

So the focus of the blog will shift slightly, although the main focus will still be on swimming and exercise, I’ll also use this as a place to waffle on about other stuff as well.

I hope you enjoy and please feel free to comment.

 

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