Once again I have been a bit remiss.

I keep meaning to write this blog up regularly but I am essentially a lazy bugger! I enjoy writing it but I don't want to publish it without the photos and I can only add the photos from the desktop and not my PC!

Anyway I am starting again because I now have to start training again for Hamm 2012! Yes I am doing the bike to Germany again for Bradford Disability Sports and Leisure and Bradford Disabled Cycling Club.

Last week I went to aquafit on Wednesday followed by a half mile swim. Thursday I went aquarunning. Friday I actually went for a bike ride, 22.39 miles according to my Garmin. Friday night I did 90 minutes of canoeing but only in the pool. This week I was at work three days so couldn't do the aquafit and on Monday the aquarunning wasn't on. However I did go aquarunning on Thursday night. Friday we went out for a meal as my stepson has completed his apprenticeship so we went out to celebrate but that meant we missed canoeing.

Anyway enough of the waffle. Aquarunning - this is new to me but I am finding it really enjoyable. You wear a special buoyancy suit and go into the deep end of the pool. No need to tread water as the suit keep you bobbing along on the top of the water like a cork. There are ropes tied across the pool and there are tethers on the back of your suit which you clip onto one of the ropes. This means that, unlike aquafit, you are not hampered by others being slower than yourself or taking a breather etc. Imagine table football in water and you are just about there!

The instructor tells you the moves and it's a bit like circuit training as you do the moves for x amount of time and then she blows a whistle and you change to something different. It can be a little repetitive. The first time I did it I thought that wasn't difficult but certainly felt like I had exercised when I got out of the water.

Right I will try and keep this blog more up to date and I will try and capture a good amount of my training in pictures as well.

Lent!

Today is the first day of Lent. Although I am not religious I am giving up eating sweet things for Lent as it is a finite period and I am hoping it will kick start my weight loss again. It also means i will look forward to Easter rather more.

I am also stepping up my exercise again. Janathon was a great opportunity and it pushed me into doing exercise when I would normally use any old excuse not to do it. So I am looking at Lent in the same kind of light. Although I cannot promise to do something everyday I am going to try to.

I have been roped into doing another bike ride this year. Not as exciting as the Hamm rides and certainly not as arduous but it is four days of riding. The first day is 40 miles and then three days of 35 milers. It is all in Yorkshire starting and finishing at Shipley Town Hall and visiting Knaresborough, Osmotherley and Whixley. We are taking two disabled lads with us and the focus is on getting them around the ride.

This means training rides will start again from this weekend.

I have also been asked to help out at another weekend away in Derbyshire with the Disabled Cycling Club. This will be the weekend after next and will probably be staying in a bunkhouse. This won't cost us anything as we get funding from another source and so it doesn't come out of our charity's money.

So I have several things to look forward to and a few reasons to get moving again.