Hello kids and welcome to another week. Thanks one and all for your brilliant comments on the holiday plan. I think I will take my trainers as a fall back, but the pool is now out in front in terms of main point of exercise..... well that and shopping of course..... It's been another mad week as we enter the final countdown to the holiday frenzy. I have bought 6 bottles of sun lotion.....yes 6. I will need to be out there night and day to get through that lot. Work has been fairly manic as well, with lots of telly news and voiceovers. And to top it off, we went to a marvellous weekend wedding in the Cotswolds. I like to think I tore up the dance floor.......again the reality might be slightly different.

But I managed to keep up with The Open by listening to it mostly on Radio 5 Live. Honestly their golf coverage is fantastic. If you haven't tried it, I would thoroughly recommend it. Loads of brilliant broadcasters just sitting around and chewing the fat about all sorts of things while the golf unfolded. Top notch. Have a listen when the Ryder Cup comes round in the autumn. And once again, my theory about the British bottlers as I shall now call them, held true. Rory McIllroy, Lee Westwood, Paul Casey...... the list goes on. Could have, should have, didn't. Oh dear.

Now with the prospect of sheer unadulterated bikini panic setting in, I have been hitting the gym in a big way, oh and running as well. But I also spotted something this week which took me wistfully back to my schooldays and all those brilliant Enid Blyton-esque books about lashings of ginger beer and dorms and girls with attitude called Aggie. I am of course talking about Lacrosse.....Yes honestly. Now Lacrosse is one of those sports that I always desperately wanted to play, but never had the chance. I was a hockey nut and had the obligatory pigtails and frightening demeanour, but I never got the chance to have a go at Lacrosse because it just wasn’t available in my part of Cornwall all those years ago.

I fear now I would be too old and slow to give it a go, but if you are a younger fitter model, I would urge you to have a try…..and possibly get a gum shield….. you know…. just in case. The reason I’m banging on about it is because the World Championships are taking place in Manchester this week. It's hard to track down current figures, but from my undercover detective work around 2000 people play the sport in the UK, which seems on the low side to be honest. But if you are interested, check out the English Lacrosse Association. I found tons of clubs right on my doorstep, so I may yet go and have a nose because it looks like the most brilliant game. Right I am off to buy more sun holiday accoutrements and perhaps another bottle of sun lotion…. Just in case…. Toodle pip.

Tags: The Open Championship, Rory McIlroy, Paul Casey, Lee Westwood, Lacrosse, Lacrosse World Championships 2010

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Hello, hello and welcome to another week which has already started. Thearle’s big dilemma this week, apart from managing negative feelings about an octopus who is better at predicting the scores of football matches than I am, is what to do to keep fit on my upcoming summer hols. Six of us are heading off to Majorca at the end of the month for a week and I am torn between taking my running gear, which will add further weight to a monstrously full suitcase, or just packing lots of swimming cosies and having a week of intensive pool activity.

Last year I took my running gear to Crete and managed one run first thing in the morning, before returning to the villa and promptly throwing up..... Now my suspicion then was that it was a tummy bug and nothing to do with the running. But I must confess I was scarred somewhat by the experience. I did attempt another outing later in the week and was chased by dogs, so all in all, the fantasy of running by the sea and the reality, didn’t really match up too well. My sister and her husband, who are joining us on this Mediterranean jaunt, are planning on running most days which is great motivationally, but practically useless, as they run much quicker than I do.

So I am seriously pondering some swimming instead, not just pottering around in the shallow end I hasten to add, but proper lengths and everything. But I thought I would throw it out into health and fitness land, because I never feel quite as tired after a swim as I do after a 4-mile run (or interval session like the one I completed yesterday). I don’t want to feel like a lazy bones and it is a holiday when all is said and done, but I feel so aerobically fit at the moment, I am reluctant to surrender any of it. So any thoughts my friends gratefully received.

My other dilemma currently, blimey I am bombarding you, is running shoes. I realised yesterday as a faint throbbing in my achilles returned, that I have had the same running shoes (two pairs of them in fact) for approximately 5 years...... Gosh the shame of even writing that is overwhelming. So clearly I need to purchase new ones. I just wondered if anyone had any particular recommendations? I will of course do it properly and suffer the ritual humiliation of having to jog red-faced around my nearest store with a complete stranger inspecting my running gait. But if I could look remotely knowledgeable, that would be a cracking start. Right I am off to buy camping gear......I really am. Yes get me. Outdoor Annie. Oh and you can also follow me on Twitter now as well - @SueThearle. I have no idea how it works, but apparently the young people like using it....... Toodle pip.....

Tags: Paul the octopus, running shoes, running gait, World Cup Final, achilles tendon, camping

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