Benefit Health & Fitness

They look even skinnier!

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:58:52 +0000

Those were the words of many after I finished having my legs waxed! The aim was to raise extra money and publicity for my chosen charity, The Alzheimers Society, so the moments of pain were worthwhile. There are one or two ‘friends’ though who took almost too much delight in ripping out my hairs!

The Ironman is now only 4 days away and it is now a very real and frightening prospect. I’ve not been in great health in the last couple of weeks so fingers crossed things improve before 6am Sunday morning. Thank you to everyone who has sponsored me and wished me luck in recent weeks. I will be at the start and hopefully race number 0777 will cross the finish line before 11pm Sunday night!

Sarah gets to work on my long and now formerly hairy legs!

Wind, rain and pain!

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:33:38 +0000

I must apologize for all the people I have moaned at in the past week! Following a very wet and windy Norwich 100 bike ride I was hobbling around with a very sore achilles. I then promptly went into a panic that my chances of a Paris finish and Ironman glory were gone! Fortunately, with the generous help of the team physio, and me actually listening to someone for a change, things are improving. Anyway, back to the Norwich 100. It rained, lots. And the wind blew, hard. A comment of this nature usually means that the man with the biggest calf muscles in Norfolk is being affected by energy gels, but he could not solely be blamed this time! Possibly the highlight of my day was seeing a man with skinnier legs than myself! This resulted in said riders lycra being ‘flappy’, and not particularly aero-dynamic!

I must just congratulate those people who completed the 50 mile route with only thier hobbit-sized legs for propulsion!

The road to Bolton via Paris – 59 days to go!

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:55:15 +0000

I’m sure the readership of my rambling will total 1 but i’m still going to enjoy myself! What’s this blog all about? Well, in short, an extension of the BeneFit web-site with some useful health and fitness tips. Plus, an account of my training as I look to take on cycling from London to Paris in 3 days, and the UK Ironman Triathlon. That’s over 500 miles in 4 days powered by my t-shirt sun-tan arms and skinny (plus, very hairy apparently) legs!

The issue of my skinny, hairy legs is very amusing to one of my training partners in particular! In the interests of privacy I will not reveal who the hobbit-sized culprit is! It seems there is a growing campaign for the hair to be removed from the aforementioned legs in the name of charity. It all seems reasonable until I try to work out where to stop with the hair removal! Hairy shorts just isn’t an appealing look! Plus, un-like another training partner, i’m not used to using fake tan to improve the look!

Anyway, I now have to go and try yet another bike saddle! It’s not as though i’m leaving it late to find one……!

Top-tip: Do a core workout whilst watching the television! 15 minutes every other night will soon have those abdominals stronger than ever.

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admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:27:00 +0000

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