There are some times in life when you sit and think "why on earth did I say 'yes' to that?" and this is most definitely one of them!

Nicky (Business Development Manager) and I are both going on holiday this year - for me it will be the first "proper" holiday of my adult life - and we both want to lose some weight and get a bit fitter.

So, the discussion wandered onto the materials that are available from the British Heart Foundation and I fished out some training plans that I had printed from the website a while ago.  It was one of those moments where you can see the direction that the conversation is travelling, and you start thinking "why did I say that?!"

Within minutes we had challenged each other to do the 5k run for beginners training plan for six weeks, which will also help us with our fitness for our Aspire Channel Swim which starts in September.

So, starting next week we're going to be jogging in our local country park, starting off 3 days a week at 10 minutes per day, increasing to 4 days a week at 25 minutes in the last week.

We will be using SportyPal to monitor our progress over the weeks so you can keep up to date with how we're doing!