Getting Started.....

.....no not with the training!  Getting started with my very first Blog is challenging enough thank you!

I hope you will enjoy following the ramblings of this wannabee rambler, but this is subject to me actually remembering yet another login password so don't count on too many updates.  I work voluntarily for AMEND (Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders) and have MEN2a myself.  We have decided that the time is right to raise a huge pot of cash for research into MEN and are hoping to recruit up to 30 people to trek the 100km through the Sahara with the aim of raising £40,000.  Currently there are only 2 of us registered to go - plenty of room on the camels for extra luggage then!

I was lucky enough to have a short spa break with 3 girl friends last week, which for me marked almost exactly 2 years before I am expected to trek 100km through the Sahara Desert.  I thought this was a good time to kick off my training regime, but of course, I'm not sure that this should have included the smuggled-in gin & tonics, champagne and cocktail nibbles in the room before dinner!

Still i did get hooked enough on the latest fitness fad, hula-hooping, to purchase my own hoop with the intention of continuing this surprisingly energetic passtime at home.  Haven't broken anything yet in the living room but it's only a matter of time.  The husband did look at me with raised eyebrows - i suppose this is because every time i go on a spa break, i come back with some weird contraption: gym ball (now consigned to life as an office chair in the study) and the cutely name Wobble Ball (which wasn't a ball at all but a squishy round cushion to stand or sit on to exercise your core muscles without you even realising - notice i said 'wasn't').

I wonder whether i could hula across the Sahara......?