My Journey - Warts and All

Today was the day of my Swimathon. I decided to do the swimathon a while ago to give myself a different physical challenge. My friend has her own swimming school and she's super fit so I thought swimming was something to try. There were 3 options for the distance: 1.5k, 2.5k and 5k. Deciding on the 2.5k, my friend, Kalie, offered to help me with my stroke to make sure that my back was as safe as possible as well as improving what I was doing. Both important as the distance that I had opted for is 100 lengths of the Bannatynes pool So anyway, I started my swim at 0910. The pool wasn't bad in terms of bodies in the water. I had a wee board all made up so that I only had to count to 10 at any one time. I've put a picture below. The first 30 lengths were the hardest for me, I was trying to settle into my own stride. Just after I had done 40, I was totally overwhelmed by what I still had to do and then, as if my wee MP3 player knew that I needed a boost, 'Danger Zone'

I have posted on here in a while but as the title suggests, it's been some start to the year. I started my new job and it's amazing! The job is fantastic, the girls that I work with are great, it's a win/win situation.  My weight loss stalled a little bit but I decided to go back to a slimming club and in my first week lost 3.5lbs. That takes my overall weight loss to 101lbs!!!!! I'm so chuffed to get into triple figures. I've lost almost as much as I still have to lose! I've also taken on a load of charity things for the remainder of the year. Swimathon 2.5k (100 lengths of a 25m pool) - Saturday 18 April for Marie Curie A Walk to Remember 13 miles - Saturday 13 June for St Columbas Hospice Race for Life 5k - Sunday 14 June for Cancer Research Fun Run 5k - Sunday 11 October for Tommy's Initially they were reasons to keep the fitness kick going, they've now turned into something else. They've become ways to distract myself. I've had