First posting

Well, it seems I now have a blog. Since the point of this is to record my progress in a triathlon I have promised to do for charity I guess I'll have to do it now!! As you can see from the picture I have run before, but as my swimming can best be described as 'failing to drown' and as for the cycling... well, how hard can it be, all you have to do is get on a bike and point in the right direction... don't you?



I am taking this more seriously though as I have a very serious reason for doing this. Following my husband's motorcycle accident in 2007, and his subsequent lower leg amputation, I have become involved with a charity called 500 Miles. This charity raises funds to supply equipment and trained people for prosthetic and orthotic work in Zambia and Malawi. The facilities these people have are very low level compared to the support here in the UK so I wanted to do something to help others in a similar situation to myself.

I will be posting my training progress on this site up until the event in June. I'll also be putting on more info about the charity as well as information on ways to give me money for this very worthy cause. My goal is to raise £6,500 to provide for the training and support costs for a prosthetist for one year. It seems very ambitious right now, but I hope I can get there.