The New Challenges

In 2012 Tracey and I embarked on a series of challenges to raise money for The Haemophilia Society. We had great fun doing it and both felt very fit. So, as we both were slogging up the Mound in the Edinburgh 10 mile run recently, we remarked on how unfit we both were compared to then!

And so Two Tackle Three was resurrected!

Two Tackle Three Take Two (AKA 2T3T2) will see us take on three new challenges each which are crazier and tougher than the first three (although Ventoux was quite tough). We will raise money for an Edinburgh Charity called The Yard. The Yard is a purpose built indoor and outdoor adventure playground for children and young people with disabilities.

Tracey and I have a few links with this amazing facility. One being it has close links with the Childhood Practice Team at Edinburgh College and the second being my late husband, Alistair was involved in providing the yard with their cut down working traffic light, through the BBC Children in Need project, The Big Build.

So Tracey's challenges are -

St Mary Loch Standard Distance Triathlon, Aberfeldy Half Ironman, Glencoe Half Marathon.

And Jane's are -

Windermere Half Marathon, The Moonwalk and the Glencoe Marathon.

We will also be taking part in a variety of other events in preparation for our big challenges.

Our blog will make a welcome return, so you can keep up with our training antics! So please keep up to date. We will let you know soon how you can sponsor us to raise a shed load of cash for The Yard.

Jane and Tracey (Team 2T3T2)

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/2T3T2


Monday 2 April 2012

Bleak, dreich, miserable, cold, damp, foggy....need I go on? Planned my last big cycle before Ventoux today, yesterday I was cycling in a T shirt, today I had 4 layers on....3 pairs of gloves and my hands were still cold!! Had planned to do the 32 mile 'strenuous' route over the Lammermuirs as a final test. I started at Gifford and made my way up the hills, had to stop almost immediately to put my bike lights on it was so foggy.
 This was the SECOND 17% gradient hill within the first 5 miles!!......
So I made it to the top...without stopping......where, according to the route guide I would be rewarded with breathtaking views over the Forth and down to North Berwick........you decide....
after a quick banana and bagel lunch I set off over the hills to Longformacus where I was due to turn off , and head towards the promise of a hot coffee and possibly a scone at a wee tea shop, but disaster struck!! Road Closed!! I had  to decide whether to chance it and hope the road would be open enough for a bike to get through, or head back the way I came.  The thought of getting half way along the road and having to head back anyway was just too much, so off I went back up the hill I had just flown down a few minutes before.....soul destroying! I wasn't a happy cyclist!! back up the big buggery hills to Gifford, by this time I was cold and wet and couldn't feel my fingers or my toes.  Cheered up a bit for the last 5 miles as it was mostly down hill, with just the one 17% gradient to drag myself up! So a total of only 27 miles ( a fewer than I hoped) but many more hills than planned so all good training.
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1 comment:

  1. JaneyM2 April 2012 at 16:43

    Oh Tracey, I was thinking about you when I was walking with my fleece on and waterproof jacket hood up! My hands were freezing and the mist was really thick down where I was. I was sure you would be freezing. But still you did it and won!! Ventoux, easy peasy ;)

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