This time last year a very good friend of mine and fellow ‘weight warrior’ completed a one-kilometre Reindeer Walk for the RNLI and kick started a life-changing year, in which her 50th birthday suit featured greatly and frequently! Get ready to raise your glass to my guest blogger -a lady who truly does ‘Dream, Dare and Do’ – Averil Larke.
Averil writes:
Two days to go until the end of 2014 and I’m Continue reading
Terry Martin ‘dad’ and Channel Swimmer Fergal Somerville
Christmas is such a special time. With all the manufactured glitter that surrounds it, I still believe that we all really know in our hearts that Continue reading
Freezing for a reason eh? Teena Gates had mentioned this Special Olympics Polar Plunge event and on impulse I signed up. We are talking about actually jumping into the cold Irish Sea during winter with little more than a pair of shorts and a Continue reading
I don’t remember not being able to swim. That doesn’t mean I’m a brilliant swimmer or anything, it just means I’ve always swum for as long as I can remember. But I have to say, taking proper swimming lessons with Karl McEntegart at DCU has been a revelation and such a rewarding thing to do.
Over the last few months he’s been ironing out lots of little faults in my swim technique and showing me why I do certain things, and why some things are more effective. I had a long break out of the pool when I was off climbing mountains in Russia and Spain during the summer (tough life) but getting back into training this month, I found my split times were better than when we started and I was really thrilled with that. That’s progress.
Today was yet another Eureka moment, when we had a look at my Continue reading