Beautiful weird and wonderful training days

What a weekend.

Me and Darren have finally got our training truly under way. We're looking to up our training to three or four days a week, and quite happily it's by choice. Now normal training running road or trail and then a bit in the gym a few press ups and maybe a swim (not darren he'd rather drown. Then there are things you can do that still class as training although you dont realise until afterwards, when your body aches in lots of weird and wonderful places. Our weird and wonderful weird training session started out as a gift from my missus. It was one of those extreme adventure vouchers.. it read along the lines pick one of these and enjoy!!!! I chose an ice climbing session at an indoor centre place called Ellis Brigham. I thought I'd take Darren along for the trip.

We ended up in London It wasn't the worst of drives we where booked in for two o'clock and just hit the outskirts of that great city by twelve thirty, and then we hit traffic, we started to get a bit twitchy after it took nearly thirty minutes to get about three miles. We decided to ditch the car strangely we ended up parking in mayfair just off the corner of hyde park. Our lovelly little Megan aprked next to the Ferrari's and top of the range Audi's was a very strange sight. Darren a hater of all confined spaces was most pleased to be shuffled on to the tube across london. Thirty short minutes later we arrived at Covent Garden. We arrived with about twenty minutes to spare. The instructors Sam and Martin where on hand to show us what ice axe went where and how your crampon stuck in here and there, one whole hour later me and Darren where strangely slightly knackered. But a few kind words from our Instructors made us feel somewhat better. Thanks to the guys we'll be going back again next summer. It'll be a good bar for us to see how our fitness has improved....

So a big up to Martin & Sam at Ellis Brigham a fantastic afternoon

- Bryn
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