NO I have not been lazy before you all start, I have been busy setting up a new business adventure as both me & The Wife are being made redundant from our child care job's. I can not say much regarding this matter at the moment but I can tell you that my new business adventure is still working with the local children.
We are setting up a local Breakfast & After School Club in a local school. This provision will enable parents to drop their children off with us in the morning allowing them to go to work, we will give the children breakfast, provide them with a safe & entraining environment before we take them to their respected schools in the local villages. This Provision is extended to after school too where we will collect the children from school, give them a light snack & provide them with a wide range of activities until they are collected by their parents.
The Club is Staffed by fully trained Playworkers & Early Years Practitioners however primarily the running of the club is determined by the children attending. The younger children will be involved in making everyday decisions and the older children will be involved with the ordering of resources & managing the clubs petty cash.
As you can guess this has taken up a lot of my time to organise, I have been aiming for this for the last 4 years & although this has caused me to delay this years challenge it has not stopped it as next year I intend to do this years challenge, AND next years challenge! I have not made my mind up on the charity yet but as before it will be a well deserved charity.
So I have 2 challenges next year, All I can tell you is that they are both endurance challenges, one will be ran & the other cycled. I gave myself the challenge of 1 challenge a year but this is the only way can catch up. Training has been slow due to work but I started cycling again last month & running a couple of weeks ago. I completed my first "long" ride last week competing in the Selby Great Ride, a 45 mile ride for a local charity with 1000 more competitors. Not a very long ride but to say it was my birthday weekend & I was drunk for the previous 2 nights, the 17mile ride there followed by the 45 mile ride then 17 back, sure sorted me out lol. I have my first "long" run tomorrow, I have been roped into running the Askern 10K road race by a friend (cheers Ian.)
To be honest in true Martin Style I have not done enough training so to finish in under 1hour would be a bonus. BUT training for next year has started so watch this space, if last year was anything to go by its going to be an entertaining journey.
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Martin
