day) As some of you may be aware plans are afoot for the first Dozz-ville Challenge Award For The Discombobulated. (Our triathlon now has a name.)
We swim, we ride and we run. All comers welcome. Ability not important. If you can't swim - wade/splosh in the shallow end. If you haven't got a cossie or Speedos I believe Captain poppypug (ents and haberdashery div) is crocheting some. If you haven't got a bike, borrow one, if you can't borrow one go down to the gym and say you'd like a free trial day. You can already run or you wouldn't have found The Discombobulated.
There is BREAKING NEWS. The inaugural event will be held THIS YEAR! Huzzah!
If we wait until next year we will have nothing with which to compare our improvement so we start next month.
No! I hear you shout. We refuse! I hear you holler. I can't! I hear you shriek. (Sorry about the lack of speech marks.)
Yes you can. Just 30 mins of each that's all that's necessary. Just 30 mins is all that's needed. And even not in a row if you can't fit it in. MY middle name is not Brownlee. If yours is I expect double.
The event will take place over the last two weeks of July. I trust you to fit it in when you can and not fib about completion.
There is a small entry fee - £1 into the collection box of your favourite charity. Pops, Toblerones for the Needy is not a charity! Let us know who you supported and why if you wish.
The last, and MOST IMPORTANT RULE is no-one tells the distances they covered. It is a PERSONAL CHALLENGE. I will not allow it to sink into a competition. It is not to see if you do more than others or make you dispirited if you are at the other end of the scale. NO personal results are to be posted, just the proud announcement of having finished. Captain poppypug (ents and haberdashery div) will send Corporal Dennis (tank div) round if this rule is broken. Once you have this year's results you have your personal targets for next year.
(scruttons is giving swimming lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, alternatively Ferd the battle dog does aqua aerobics and synchro if that's what you fancy.)
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Sir! I'm in. I'll get a bicycle from somewhere. Failing that, the gym. If I'm still not on swimming lessons by then, I'll go splosh.
My donation will proudly go to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, for the tremendous work they do. I will not post results, and risk a visit from Corporal Dennis and his Tank Div.
Yes, I'm in too, Sir, as long as I don't have to get my hair wet (I don't have fabulous hair, I'm just rubbish at swimming!) Not sure about the cycling bit either but hey, it's a challenge and I'm up for it. My donation goes to the totally wonderful Marie Curie Cancer nurses who cared for my lovely dad so well in his last days and made sure my lovely mum was ok too. Wonderful idea Dozz. You really are quite a special person aren't you
Harsh, very harsh of your friend, I feel. Still, what's not to like in a balloon? My comment stands- you are a very special ( in a non-pejorative way) person
I think the running will be hardest for me given I have only been back for 5 runs after my 3 months of lurgies and sair legs. However the end of July gives me time and I am optimistic that I will manage to go the distance..so count me in.
Forgot to say my donation will go to Crossroads (caring for carers). My dad had dementia and a volunteer from Crossroads used to come every week and take him our for a drive and give my mam a bit of a break. Great organisation.
Morning Dozzer ... could i be IN too? Sounds like FUN!
My donation would be to Caring Friends who give a little relief to carers of Alzheimer sufferers by giving their poorly person a fun morning out away from home
Already in double figures! Forgot to mention you can have a military ranking if you want after completion. I knew I could rely on you all. Some worthy causes being supported here, well done!
I'm in, I will be on holiday in (hopefully) sunny Dorset so my swim will be in the sea!! Not sure where I'll find a bike, but I will manage some how. I will donate to the Swanage pier restoration as some of my running will be pounding their well worn planks
Oh I'm in! In will dust off my 1930's style sit up & beg bike (complete with wicker basket) and dig out my swimming cossie from the back of my knicker draw! I will donate to a local charity Abbie's Fund - they raise money to provide memory boxes and keepsakes for parents who lose babies through stillbirth or neonatal death in our local area. There was nothing like this when my first baby was stillborn 18 years ago so well worth a donation from me!
You're in. I'm afraid you have a long, long way to go to become a Major Disaster. Pops is only a captain, she'd not be happy. Fancy dress - excellent idea!
My dear friend, and comrade in running. You have never seen me swim ~ now that IS a major disaster. Lots of splashing, lots of arms flailing, but little in the way of forward propulsion.
Great idea! Count me in. My charity is Age Uk as I think older people are a forgotten part of society. Also, with all these fit runners here, there'll be more oldies around in the future!
...and you think I'm joking!!
I remember buying my first pair. On Scout camp as a fresh faced youth, many, many years ago......the fan belt snapped and a pair of stockings saved the day.
I have worn them at times. Great for keeping the old legs warm when out on the hills. Also, they are fantastic when paddling in water wich has jellyfish in. They stop them stinging you as much!! Take my word for it ~ jellyfish stings realy hurt.
Oh yes, they look great under a nice skirt too ;~)
Oh, Matron!
Very popular with farmers too. but they won't admit it!
Now, off to change and go shopping ~ a 'woman's' work is never done!
Count me in, I will have to cycle at the gym cos I have no balance on a bike and can I do 30 mins at deep water aerobics please then I will have my floaty belt on so I can't drown whilst running round the pool
Oh yes. There is no stopping me when I get going...unless there is a nice cup of hot choc and a chocolate digestive! Now, where did I leave my specs and crossword...?
PS. No new stockings, or anything else for me for that matter :~(
Just in time to watch Countdown and listen to the Light Programme on the wireless.
Private Horror reporting for duty. I will have to borrow my son's bike (mountain not BMX) and the swim will have to be when I'm on my hols in Mauritius (I will struggle on for the good of the forum).
Nominated charity is the Lily Mae Foundation, a local charity raising money for families after a stillbirth or neonatal death. I'm running a 5k fun run organised with the charity in September so will add my donation to my (hopefully fruitful) sponsorship form.
Another welcome participant! Good work, spread the news!
'apart from the maths bit', well, that just sums it up. OK, bad joke.
OK, you do the jokes, but if anyone saw me now they would laugh!!
Is that your pooch?
Not before Izzie had licked him into submission..
Snap. Izzie is a rescue pooch too, or to be more precise, a rescue foetus. Her mum was in a pound in Ireland, got pregnant, was shipped across to a local-to-us rescue centre, and we picked one of the 11 in the litter.
I'm sure Doug is a wonderful chap and keeps you company, just as Izzie-dog does when I'm here all on my own doing my Cinderella act.
Oh no, I want the spout too. I could install a drinking straw and use it as a snorkle. Alternatively could use it to keep a stash of caramel wafers (for medicinal purposes only of course)
I am in. My pound will go to, er, i am unfamiliar with the British names of these things, so i will have to research. Something cancer related, or something local that i find. I will report back, sir.
For the bikeride portion, this is just the excuse i need to rent one of Glasgow's nifty new rent-a-bikes! For swimming, i dont know. We have made a promise to the wee boy of a daytrip to the seaside but that me happen too soon. We are moving house the last week of July, if it is raining, will that count for swimming? I would suggest maybe moving day i will be hot and sweaty enough to call it swimming. But i have been here officially a year today, so i know better.
Woman - often childish pronounced peegeevee. Just now back from a 35 minutes run, and I still find it unbelievable I can do that!!! My bike has been living in Nagasaki post bomb - probably not very PC as a name but quite apt to describe my garage - so I have to borrow something with wheels that actually turn . There is a new cycling group in town - for beginners or wimps like me that are too terrified to tackle the Irish country roads - and they meet every week for a short ride - so I will join them and they supply bikes, then I may find some skilled rider that can fix mine... Then I will probably do the ride really early in the morning, before Mister John Deere and Mister Massey-Ferguson are out on roads that are wide enough for a mule with a cart!
The swim is the easy one - sort of, I think that being Italian does not agree with swimming in 30 minutes in the cold Atlantic waters, but since I run around a salt water lake I may as well finish the run by swimming in it. Or the other way round, like a real triathlete!
The pound (or 1.30 Euro) will go to the Cancer Connect, a local rural transport service that organizes minibuses or cars to drive cancer patients to Cork for radio and chemio treatments
I have to say there are various spots at my place adorned in the post-nuclear holocaust style. I keep pondering decorating or tidying but generally decide it will one day be fashionable. How a mess gets to be fashionable I don't know but I believe Tracey Emin made something for her bed.
I do enjoy a swim and I have a bike (my trusty folding Brompton) - therefore can't think of any reason why I shouldn't do this. Donation is to Parkinson's UK.
I'll combine my ladies cycling day with my running day and make the effort to do the swim the same day too - which despite teaching it, I will actually find the hardest, especially on the same day - so have the ambulance on stand-by, as well as all those rescuers! My donation will go to Cancer UK.
I'll have to catch you all following day, unless you all turn up to the pool!? It'll be 'lively' as I have some 'interesting' characters as special schools..............but maybe we'll all be quite at home? I certainly am!
Tried to sign up for this the other day on my mobile ($£*%$ thing!)... I love the idea and will join if I may. I'll post my pound off to Potential Plus UK - it's a charity that helps support gifted children and their families. They do a great job helping liaise with schools and in giving the parents advice and suggestions as to how to handle the issues of asynchronous development (Alan Partridge did a great show on this!) and working with the children (providing peer groups, helping to stop some of them disengaging with school, etc).
I'd like to join in too, please. If all continues to plan and I manage to do some running while on holiday over the next 2 weeks then I should be on week 9 by the last week of July, so the 30 minutes running should be possible. The swimming will be fine, I can do that already, and I do have a bike which hopefully only needs tyres to be pumped up to make it useful. I love the idea of this and my donation will be to guide dogs for the blind - as well as being a good cause, I always wanted to put money in the dog statue box at the supermarket.
Does the cycling aspect have to be travelling over ground on a bike with wheels or does stationary exercise bike count? If the latter, I'm on board. I'm a rubbish swimmer but it's good to be out of one's comfort zone, so they say.
My donation, if I am accepted, and even if not, will be to the Alzheimer's Society, who help my mum tremendously.
Am I too late to join? Just checking do have to do them all on same day? I am hoping to cycle tomorrow and swimming Thursday my jogging will be on whichever day I feel confident I can finish my £1 will be going to Hospice of The Good Shepard for all their help they offered my family and friends x
Can I join too please? Done a 30 min walk, son coming over to clear garage so I can finally get my bike out, and trip to pool planned. Donation to Rainbow Hospice via the Susan Taylor Memorial Fund, the wonderful vibrant young lady who died last year while swimming the channel.
coming in late to the party but im in! but with three young sprogs my events will have to span over three separate days. will do my utmost to not let you down - the swimming will be the challenge here methinks....
Put any orders in to Second Lieutenant lizziebeth57 (supplies div, triathlete)
Hurrah! Did it Monday and Tuesday. Monday repeating W1R1 yet again. Really must go and get some decent shoes, job for this evening before w1r2 again. Tuesday went swimming 12:00 to 13:00 nice gentle breaststroke with a couple of coughing breaks and then Tuesday evening cycle around Manchester where I'm currently based. Not losing any weight as yet, but feeling a whole lot healthier. If I can just knock the excessive red wine on the head...
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