Team Motto

Good Evening Jolly Japers!

We're getting close to the challenge now and I've set the gold standard in preparedness as usual by forging ahead this weekend with my sis on our traditional (Founded 2010) May Bank Holiday Lidos Celebration...

...the plan was 3 Miles, 3 Lidos, 1 Day and we absolutely nailed it like the top athletes we are with 2 Miles, 2 Lidos, 1 River, 1 and half Days ... and a bit of healthy snacking en route.

What a BRILLIANT trip - have a chortle at the pics on sister blog http://waterbloggedsisters.blogspot.com

Anyhow, here's a great motto and appropriate glamour girl poster to hold in our heads and hearts as we look forward to our Jape in June.

Ill prepared, moi?

OK, so I don't have any appropriate walking boots ... but I do have three cozzies and I'll be trialling all of them over the next 24 hours....on my way to meet Sister Nic to head off for heavenly swim in The River Cam tonight, then 3 miles in 3 Lidos tomorrow .... may need to divert on the way to stock up on expedition supplies - Lincolnshire Plum loaf avec le fromage of course!!

Packhorses Needed

Aarggghh...all this gear we seem to need for The Jolly Jape we're going to need a camel train to carry it all!

Check out the Big Fundraiser!

http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/local/raising_awareness_and_funds_in_helen_s_name_1_2707779

Still waiting !!!

Hello everyone, I hope your are all well and prepared for a dip in cold welsh water only to be warmed up by warm Welsh sunshine!! I've been in training by turning the shower to cold every morning (and then straight back to hot). Baby Mumford continues to be fasionably late so I really hope I will still be joining you. I will let you know.

The clock is ticking

Three weeks tonight thats 504 hours thats 30 thousand 240 minutes, thats 1million 814 thousand 400 seconds we will be on the road to Wales so we need to do everything possible to push the fund raising totals up. i have even gone to the trouble of setting up a wall on face book to try and pick up that bit extra, lets face it we can all do with a bit extra, especially the boys when we jump into those lovely ice cold lakes ''hey lads''. So we need to focus on our equiptment and supplies make sure we have all the necessaries small dan you bring the vasseline and i'll sort out the Baby powder.

New Japer on board

Welcome to Peter Mc Farlane who has succumbed to the lure of The Jolly Jape and signed up today .... look out for his personal blog posts

invite for walk

i am going for a walk around grounds and up to frog hollow but will be early monday afternoon,i know some will be working hard but i,m not because i cant stand the constant bragging of my room mate any more,i will try and catch him up in the sponsership race but he has done well,cant wait for the trip a good break for all of us even though it will about kill us,if your interested text in the walk but dont worry if you can,t

Paperatzi

Sorry not sure how you spell it.
A word of warning look out for them our Jolly Jape is world wide news I was caught by the Melton Times "painful" you might add, keep your eyes peeled.

Intensive Training

Kev and me are setting the standard for intensive challenge training by completing a hardcore hike across the Vale of Belvoir yesterday..

...thanks to lovely Paul Gibbins for organising and keeping spirits up throughout the day with the target of a tasty curry at The Manners to round off the day - lovely!

Not so sure about the distance measuring skills - my legs were telling me we'd covered more than 10 miles by the end of the day!

It was a great walk though, in great company and we're feeling inspired to carry on with weekly post work happy hiker pootles over the coming weeks if you fancy coming along....

New Target

I have just increased my Target to £1,750 as I reached £1,500 yesterday, if any of my teammates would like advice on raising money do not hesitate to ask, just over one month away now to the big day so lets go for the final push with our sponsorships

Belvoir Team Piccies

Glamour shots!

shoes

got my new walking shoes so will be bedding them in