Games Sporting Inspiration

Murdoch's surprising win over Jamieson shows us how it's done!

The Commonwealth Games has taken Glasgow and Scotland by storm and hopefully has inspired everyone to participate in sport.  I've been lucky to be off work so can take full advantage watching the fantastic athletes (on TV this week but at Hampden Park on Saturday!) who have trained for years go for gold.  Scotland, and all home nations, have done themselves proud.  Scotland should also be proud of what a fantastic spectacle they have put on for the world, well organised and making the city 'buzzing'.  From all the amazing swimmers including Erraid Davis, the 13 year old Scottish swimmer from Shetland winning bronze, Katie Archibald in her cycling wins, the Scottish gymnastics team finally picking up a prize and Eilidh Child's stunning silver medal victory in the hurdles. They are truly inspirational!  And it certainly has spurred me on!

And I've needed it.  I've put on a bit of weight over the summer and was toying with the idea of posting a photo of me on here looking my worse to motivate me to get on it, but I just couldn't bring myself to, it's too horrendous a picture and would scar you for life!  So it's upping the mileage again and back to working on my nutrition.  Since I've stopped posting what I'm eating, I've let it slip.  And slip.  So tried out a few healthy recipes and have made a list of foods to avoid midweek:

My Tuesday stirfry

• cheese
• peanut butter
• chocolate
• crisps (don't eat these anyway but it makes me think I'm doing good if they are on list!)
• biscuits
• fizzy juice (coke zero is weekend treat only)
• alcohol (hmmm I've already messed this one up with 2 drinks on Wednesday as we had the lovely Wilcocks clan up for dinner)

The winners of the ladies races!

The Commonwealth Games haven't been the only Games this week.... the Southend Highland Games and CRC mini Highland Games have given us a little taste of the competition that the athletes do.  Ouch!  Track running really isn't my forte, it was a chore.  I got absolutely demolished by Ashleigh and Maryann (2 15 year old junior running club members) at Southend and I didn't hold back, it was just painful!  However, it was good fun and I suppose good training.  More fun was the broom throwing, 3 legged race, sack races and even the high jump!  OK it was a bit embarrassing crashing through the rope at the start but hey, it's all a bit of fun and supporting local events.  At least my husband did a bit better and we even came home with prize money - result :-)

The real fun began at the games when the sacks and brooms came out!

 

The toon athletes with their prizes at Southend