Monkey_Monkey_Underpants
Not quite normal
Hi all
As some of you may know, now that I'm no longer the lump of lard I once was, I'm planning on celebrating my life-changing slimming achievement by taking part in another (I hope) life-changing experince: next year I'm going to be trekking in Nepal (along with the Great And Glorious Capricorn!).
This involves
a) raising a lot of money for charity (you can see what a brilliant cause this on the Genesis Research Trust website), and
b) getting pretty fit.
So I've been coming up with various fund-raising ideas, and the first major thing I'm doing will, I hope, help with the fitness as well.
In the course of Lent, I intend to swim the Channel.
Well, not really. I'm going to swim the width of the Channel - the length of an official Channel Swim - but in my local pool.
Ok, so it's not quite the same.
Admittedly there are no ferries (or jellyfish) to dodge, and the danger of hypothermia, drowning, being run down by the rescue boat etc is minimal. Nor do I expect that goose grease will play a large part in the exercise.
But on the other hand there isn't the benefit of the tide, so I will actually have to swim every stroke of the distance, with no drifting to help me.
To be precise, this involves 1,416 x 25m lengths. Which is no small undertaking. I'm trying to break it up into manageable chunks, but I'll need to average about 30 lengths a day, for the entirety of Lent. And given that I can't actually get to the pool every single day, I'm going to have to do a few really big swims to make up for it!
I decided to post this on here, because you, my good fellow slimmers, are my inspiration; you keep me going, and your moral support as I get to the low points when I never want to get in the water EVER again, are going to be vital if I'm going to achieve this!
I'll be posting my progress, and please feel free to contribute with your supportive messages: they really do make a difference!
Thank you.
As some of you may know, now that I'm no longer the lump of lard I once was, I'm planning on celebrating my life-changing slimming achievement by taking part in another (I hope) life-changing experince: next year I'm going to be trekking in Nepal (along with the Great And Glorious Capricorn!).
This involves
a) raising a lot of money for charity (you can see what a brilliant cause this on the Genesis Research Trust website), and
b) getting pretty fit.
So I've been coming up with various fund-raising ideas, and the first major thing I'm doing will, I hope, help with the fitness as well.
In the course of Lent, I intend to swim the Channel.
Well, not really. I'm going to swim the width of the Channel - the length of an official Channel Swim - but in my local pool.
Ok, so it's not quite the same.
Admittedly there are no ferries (or jellyfish) to dodge, and the danger of hypothermia, drowning, being run down by the rescue boat etc is minimal. Nor do I expect that goose grease will play a large part in the exercise.
But on the other hand there isn't the benefit of the tide, so I will actually have to swim every stroke of the distance, with no drifting to help me.
To be precise, this involves 1,416 x 25m lengths. Which is no small undertaking. I'm trying to break it up into manageable chunks, but I'll need to average about 30 lengths a day, for the entirety of Lent. And given that I can't actually get to the pool every single day, I'm going to have to do a few really big swims to make up for it!
I decided to post this on here, because you, my good fellow slimmers, are my inspiration; you keep me going, and your moral support as I get to the low points when I never want to get in the water EVER again, are going to be vital if I'm going to achieve this!
I'll be posting my progress, and please feel free to contribute with your supportive messages: they really do make a difference!
Thank you.