The Smiley Milers JOGLE: Who are we?

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Who are we?

We are the smiley milers and this is our very first blog. You should hopefully get contributions at various intervals from myself (Damian), Jen, Dave, Steve, Laura and John. We will be sharing the route with you on the right menu, telling you a bit about ourselves, giving useful links, updating you on our training plan and most of all updating you during our ride. First things first, we are riding circa 1000 miles for cancer research with the aim of also raising £10,000. Please visit our fund raising page via the link on the right. Please don't be shy to contribute either :)

7 comments:

The Smiley Milers said...: Who on EARTH would agree to do such a thing? I'm on strike from training until th weather gets better...... it may be a while by the looks of things!!; 30 April 2008 at 21:31
The Smiley Milers said...: Dave and I did 50 today and we're feeling a little tired.... how the ell we're going to do 30 more than that for 13 consecutive days I don't know! Jen; 6 May 2008 at 21:23
The Smiley Milers said...: From the Wise One - just in case we get famous after this event, we ought to start thinking about possible fund raising methods. We ought to start collecting our slightly soiled lycra (ssl) for auction one day in the future. Many a woman would give £££££s for steve redgraves once-dampened-pants (Dave); 6 May 2008 at 22:02
The Smiley Milers said...: Jen and i did the "to work and back" thing today again - 50 miles total,with a slight detour to get fish from Waitrose!! Despite a rest yesterday I'm knackered? we have to do 83 miles on the first day!! Mmmm got a bit to do between now and then. steve keeps knocking out the 25 milers at least once a day (started doing it at 6.30am)!! His bloody bed can't be that comfy, thats all I can say.; 6 May 2008 at 22:08
The Smiley Milers said...: wait...Jon and I never signed up to sit in a Van with sweaty lycra maturing for two weeks!!
...And yes, we have been training as well. I have been doing at least 50 miles a day, Monday to Friday come rain or shine! ...We're getting quite good at driving now actually.; 20 May 2008 at 09:16
Cactusnic said...: Hello Smiley Milers! Good luck with your JOGLE. I shall follow you with interest.

I too am doing a JOGLE with some mates. We are at www.jogle.eu; 31 May 2008 at 04:37
Blogsmile said...: It's great to read your daily blog - very upbeat. We're following you on the map. You've all done very well (In the style of young Mr Grace!); 22 July 2008 at 09:43

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Steven: The mere fact that Steven has left this in MY capable hands (his wife!!) to write probably says more than any words I could find to describe him.

He is the 'Birthday Twin' of David (although he has asked me to point out that despite how he looks he is in fact 14 years younger than David!) and likes to do 'stuff like this' to keep him on his toes, in actual fact I think he goes through 'mini crises' every decade (in the 90's he ran the Nottingham Marathon, bare minimum of training before and has never since ran again) and now this...although I can safely say the training has been going v well (particularly for me as I can Ebay/ Facebook for as long as I like!).

I'd like to tell you what he does for a living but I haven't got a bloomin' clue (and to be honest I don't think he does either...), he 'prices' stuff so far as we know.

Like David he is a TOTAL fidget ar*e and this will give me a little peace and quiet for a couple of weeks as well as raising shedloads for charity-bonus side effect really!

He went to 6th form with Damian (and his wife and myself where we all met and fell in lurve...yeuch!) and Jen, although he has dumped her (calls her 'my mates wife!') in favour of David.

Steve's main goal, apart from completing the cycling of course, is to find a place where he can drink beer every night.....

NUFF SAID!
Adios and Bon Chance!!!

Damian - Breaks all things IT

David: is a lean, mean, exercising machine. Why would you want to sit and relax in your living room when there is....well..... SOMETHING to do that would expend some energy?! He last made this journey as part of a relay team – running the length of the country. The JOGLE on cycles is on Dave’s wish list of ‘things to do before I’m 50’ and as this milestone age occurs in October 2008, it means it’s now or never. In other words, this is all his fault. David is a Building Surveyor by day but really longs to do something away from the construction industry as he’s ‘been doing this since he was five when his dad bought him a wheelbarrow for his birthday, and he considered himself lucky.. blah blah blah blah.’ He shies away from crowds and hates being centre of attention ..... the way he hijacks the local karaoke evenings whilst dressed up as a woman illustrates this fact clearly!

Jen: is married to the lean, mean exercising machine, but isn’t as lean, or mean and doesn’t exercise half as much! However, she does hate to be left out ..... of anything ..... at any time, and would rather eat her own cycling helmet than watch Dave do it without her! It’s the same sort of philosophy as she uses when he goes to the pub – if he thinks he’s going without her, he’s got another think coming! Jen is a Quantity Surveyor (counts bricks) and is also desperate to get away from the profession, but anyone who knows what a QS does, needs no explanation of why this is the case! Jen is using the JOGLE training as an excuse to do her most favourite thing (apart from spending time with Dave, of course) – eating crisps or any form of potato!

Laura: 24 Year old Website Marketer. Don’t ask her what one of these is, after 8 months she is still unsure of why she was offered the job. A lover of Animals and nature with a tendency to get a bit mixed up with fantasy and reality, she lives with Jon and their Cat Ted. Seeing this as a great opportunity to behave like a child again, she is always doing something slightly unusual in her spare time, whether it is painting, writing a book, playing video games, making curtains or ‘gardening’ (digging up stuff).

Laura gets very enthusiastic about everything that she does … even if she doesn’t go about it in the most conventional way. Don’t leave her alone for too long though, she won’t always admit when she is unable to do something she was very sure she could and will just find a ‘different’ way. (Putting up a fence with a hammer, saw, spade, 3 rotting posts, some rocks she dug up and a ‘not so keen’ eye for a straight line? – somebody stop her quick before she hurts herself!).

Jon: 24 Years old Metal Turner and Machinist. Jon machines large pieces of metal so that they can be used in pipe work for Gas and Water. As a lover of cars he spends some of his spare time cleaning, polishing and driving his own and is certainly not afraid to exercise his knowledge of engineering if there is a car that needs a new …anything putting in!

Jon’s enjoys playing tricks on people - especially when they are too blonde to notice straight away (not mentioning any names – Laura) so beware - if you see him with a manic grin on his face for apparently no reason, it’s a lie when he say’s he is ‘just happy to see you’ – he is up to something.

Jon’s choice of career and his practical nature are actually quite brave considering his an unusual knack of hurting himself. He is never normally without some kind of bruise, gash, burn or loose fingernail and his new craze is ‘tweezering’ splinters of metal from his fingers…nice!

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