October challenge cancelled

Hello everyone

Here I am again announcing a cancellation of a War on Cancer challenge. It's been a particularly tough year this year on the fundraising front. People have told me they think the October indoor climb challenge sounded great fun, was something different and something we could all get our teeth into, however this didn't translate into names signing up. So due to lack of firm interest I have no choice but to cancel the event, it would be unfair of me to leave it much later to make this decision when we have an adventure company waiting to make firm plans. So apologies to our great friends Lost Earth Adventures who were going to be running this event for us.

We at WoC have faced much disappointment this year and have had to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down. We hope that the last couple of events we are planning this year will give us a little boost. Regardless of everything that's occurred this year, we are still enthusiastically planning away and coming up with more events for next year.

It has without a doubt been hard after spending the best part of six months working on the Zumba for the venue to have to change, that was a lot of work by only a few of us on top of working full-time and spending the best of up to fifteen hours a week on the Zumba also. We will be picking this up again in the new year where we will launch our Zumba  campaign again and know the owners of the new venue want to be involved with us and the event. Our determination is to come back with an even bigger and better event than was planned this year.  But for this year most of our efforts have been unrewarded.

As you have no doubt seen the new website has in fact not been launched at the end of September as I announced mid July. I actually can't give you a new date, I'm not even sure of it myself, I will say though that I wouldn't pass on the date even if I did know it as I've already made this announcement twice this year. Whenever it takes place I hope you like it and will interact with me more and let me know what you think of it. We can't improve or give you what you want if you don't tell us what you'd like. So my sincere apologies once more for the launch failure.

I will be having a WoC meeting with our two ambassadors this coming week so will give you more details for the last two events to take place this year. I will try post something straight after our meeting.

On a personal note I am looking to step up my stamina and endurance training for Mount.Kilimanjaro next March but endeavouring to take up a mixture of boxercise and cage fighting training.....boy I'm looking forward to hitting the hell out of the bag believe me, it's going to be great for the frustration levels!! I will also have my own personal trainer Mr Paul Myers - thank you Paul for this and I apologise now for the frustration you are sure to suffer at my slow improvements!!

Myself and Bec's one of WoC's most loyal family member have got a couple of great hill walks in, we were back in the Dales in recent weeks, we climbed Yorkshire's highest peak Whernside and then in the last week or so we climbed Ingleborough. Bec's also in preparation for Mount.Kilimanjaro has got herself a new programme at the gym for her leg endurance to work on stretching out the muscles to hopefully prevent cramp issues when climbing Kili....I need one of those myself!

I must say I as well as climbing Whernside with Bec's actually went back and climbed it again four days later with my pal Donna. I felt great. I had a tougher climb when we did Ingleborough, I was struggling with breathlessness and a stupid cough I'd had for around five weeks. My chest was burning on the climb up. I actually had an appointment with the Doctor that week where it turned out I had a chest infection and laryingitis - that solved the mystery of why it was such a tough climb!

Until next time

Tracy