The French (red wine) Diet

9 June - Deb completed her Race for Life yesterday and did it in 45 minutes with a bit of jogging despite having put her back out 2 weeks ago (she couldn't move for 2 days); which means it is even more of an achievement. In order to support her we had t-shirts printed with my brothers' picture on it. A very emotional afternoon for all!

This week, I intend to get the promotion side of this challenge going with some press releases and such like. I also need to get some sponsorship forms made up as there do not appear to be any official ones? A bit bizarre, but just a blip!

Training is going ok, but the red wine is going better than the abs routine! Whoops! I had better get serious about the other side of it before the red wine takes over.


3 June - training pattern now a little bit better although I am still training haphazardly rather than conistently. I read the training advice that comes with the fundraising pack and that doesn't even start until 16 weeks before the event, and although I am tempted I had better get doing long before that!

Luckily, this means that what I have been doing will stand me in good stead for being able to achieve the event and the more I think about it the more excited I get. I can't wait to visit China and experience a new culture.

I trained for an hour and a half yesterday with a ride to the gym and back and a tough challenge on the cross-trainer. I also noticed an exercise plan in the weekend papers that is based around the french way of life - which helps as it means I can get fitter and leaner with the legit inclusion of red wine! Happy days! However, it does involve getting up earlier and putting my abs through torture before breakfast - but if it helps my back survive the perils then the red wine reward has to be worth it.

It is now only a few days until my sister does her Race for Life in memory of Richard. However, she is going to have to walk it having hurt her lower back about 10 days ago. I'll let you know how she gets on after the weekend.


Please support me by making a donation at http://www.justgiving.com/sarahpearce-in-trinsic in memory of my brother, and remember to keep checking back on my progress.