About Me

St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom
I'm bright, funny (I think so), witty (ditto)and a bit cheeky. I admire intelligence, compassion, good manners, good sense of humour, good conversation, like having my feet tickled, cycling, music, chocolate and the sea. I dislike, ignorance, arrogance, hypocrisy, litter bugs, cruelty to children & animals, violence, Johnny Vegas and the word 'incorrigible'!

Monday 25 June Day 138

Recap the gap!!!

  • Thursday - Went to darkest Trinity after work to look after my favourite teens ''FT??'' for the w/end.
  • Friday - up at 6am to walk Tilly before work and generally lay about all evening watching TV and eating Galaxy....so?
  • Saturday - 30mins on treadmill and 3 walks with Tilly. Had the V10 there but thought it was too windy to cycle....I am a social cyclist after all!
  • Sunday - had a VERY blonde day...first of all got ''FTCB'' up an hour too early for his Marines (at 7am...eek!!) as had unknowningly changed the time on my phone ...long story...wee pet...he was so nice about it too and took Tilly a walk in the extra time he had. Did an hour...a hard hour on the tread to try to make up for all the laying about and Galaxy. Tried to call ''BFGM'' for 30 mins and wondered why her phone was engaged for so long until I tried to do a call back and couldn't and looked at the display screen and saw that I was actually calling myself!!! Eeeee....must have worked too much on tread!!! Cooked a late lunch for ''FTSB'' and I and forgot all about the garlic and parsnips in the oven....blooming Agas...you can't smell the food cooking!!! Needless to say they went from oven to bin! On a good note took Tilly a bracing walk in the rain...
  • Gym this evening...''TC'' was very forceful and we did an hour on the bike...22k...368 calories...and then she made me do abs...lots and lots of abs...am in agony...and quite enjoying it!!

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Day 1 - Saturday 10th February 2007

Today is the first day of my countdown to my Cycle Vietnam challenge in November. Today I have: a. set up a fund raising page at http://www.justgiving.com/siobhanmartina b. set up this blog to track my training progress and no doubt many frustrations; and c. started my training. It has to be said that I'm feeling a tad righteous! In saying that I feel that I have to mention that my training took place on my exercise bike at home....come on!!...it's far too cold and wet for the real thing! I'm looking at about April for that!!! I've set myself a goal of doing at least 1 hour on the bike every day and have had the most wonderful idea of how to get over the tedium of getting nowhere slowly! Yes... I'm going to watch the whole series of 'The Sopranos'....series 1-6 in fact! When I've finished these I'll then move onto '24' ...again...every series available on DVD. But panic not my sweets, amongst all this toil, I will also be going to the gym....I'll be the one with the very pink cheeks at Fitness First! How come some girls look great exercising and some look like...well....me?! My stats on the bike for today were: RPM - 72 / SPEED - 28 / TIME - 60 mins / DISTANCE - 26.48 / CALORIES - 599 ( = 1 Mint Aero & 1 Ripple!) But as the old saying goes, 'The best laid plans of mice and Siobhans' or as my lovely Mother would say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions!'. Till next time...