One month in and our progress so far is……..a bit slow.

Kim has had a go at completing her application form for a golden ticket entry to the Marathon running for McMillan. Suddenly running 26 and a bit miles seem like a walk in the park compared to raising £2000. We racked our brains and have come up with some ideas for fundraising events so watch this space for dogs/sausages/wine/cakes not necessarily at the same time.

Jess and Charlie have planned their first training walk something serious, we’re off to Snowdon shortly, Kim and I will be coming along to offer moral support and any fitness training will be good for all of us. Jenn has noticed that the coat she brought for Rambo (her dog) a while back is made by a brand called three peaks, this is definitely a sign. She tried a little walk up Golden Cap (the highest point on the south coast) and felt she may need medical attention. Charlie has thus far limited her training to the upper body concentrating mainly on lifting pints of cider from the table to her mouth, again and again and again.

I have done a couple of sea swims, the latest a very slow 1mile round beautiful Burgh Island near Kingsbridge in Devon supported by my initial enthusiastic but later knackered and slightly nervous friend Trista. As it’s an Island it’s a circular route so once you’ve started you’ve got to carry on. The conditions were a perfect mainly flat with a bit of breeze round the back. We felt a bit smug as we got to the end as by taking an extra 10minutes the tide and come in and we were able to take a short cut over the rocks at the end rather than swimming around. Trista just loves to cater and I was very glad she does as her cheese and ham sandwiches, crisps, buscuits and coffee were very gratefully received at the end. This had been my first wetsuitless swim, one mile down all I need to be able to do is add another 21 to it and I’ll be sorted.

There were a few tourists on the island taking photos of us as we swam around, I later heard rumours of whale spotting…..hmm a diet may be in order.

I’ve also been doing a bit of reading about what a Channel swim entails and it’d be fair to say the whole thing is now terrifying me, what with the risk of being mowed down by enormous tankers, stung by jelly fish and generally having to spend hours and hours swimming in some very challenging conditions I think I really should be more careful what I agree too in the future.

We did a bit of group exercise last week clearing out the last bits from Mums house. Humping washing machines and welsh dressers up and down the stairs is hard work. We’ve given back the keys now so that’s a not very pleasant task over and done with.

We seem to have a massive task ahead of us but we say……..bring it on!!

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