Ok, deep breath, are we sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
Once upon a time in a land far far..........oh bugger!
We'll just cut to the chase, this page has really been set up to give some life to the things my wife Liz and I are planning to do this year to have some fun and because we're trying to get you lot to give money to the charity TrustPA through our web page www.justgiving.com/lizandmatt we thought we ought to at least let you know what sort of blood, sweat and tears (of joy hopefully) you can expect us to go through on behalf of your hard earned.
After spending the last few years renovating houses with all our spare time we just had enough so early this years plans took shape to have a bit of fun, get fit again and just go out and do some stuff. So far we've got a rough itinerary that looks like the following:
Feb - Winter Climbing in Scotland
March - Bath Half Marathon
April - Steyning Duathalon & BARC Westfield Chaps Rounds 1&2 @ Rockingham
June - Welsh 3000 & BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 3&4 @Brands Hatch
July - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 5&6 @ Donington Park
August - BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 7&8 @ Castle Combe& Rounds 9&10 @ Croft
Sept - Climb Mont Blanc & BARC Westfield Champs Rounds 11&12 @ Snetterton
Oct - Chicago Marathon
As you can see, we're both planning on doing some endurance events and will be updating this blog with progress to date. Although we both ran the Bath Half marathon in 2003 we have done little running since. We started the training before Christmas using a training schedule nicked from www.runnersworld.co.uk and so far so good minus a couple of lost weeks due to a nasty virus, the upside of which was half a stone of weightloss.
In addition I'll be racing my Westfield in the BARC Westfield Championship this year and hoping to be able to upload some video of the races if I can figure out how. If you're one of those people who are into these types of cars then you are either single, on the verge of divorce or fortunate to be married to an absolute angel of a woman.
If you can make it to any of the events above it would be great to have some extra support and we may have spare tickets.
Right, that's the first post out the way, lets hope the rest are somewhat more, well just more!
