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Xmas

Been busy, but still time to do a smal piece to a piece of music about xmas.
 I hope everyone had a good xmas and I wish all a happy new year. Its good just to do your own thing and keep trying to develop.

Angry Teddy idea 2

For this idea I took out the backgruond the background are just the colours he goes in and out of.

Teddy Bear Angry /insane

 

For this project I wanted to make the bear walk with a funny limp, lunges along he is not right.

He growls, his eyes are going from side to side, he stomps up the street, hides behind trees , blends in to a wall, becomes the wall, finds another old bear left in the dark street, picks it up and he is that bear.

 

The colours of the background relect his unstable state of mind.

Run training

As I head towards Xmas and that wonderful time of the year when you tend to eat too much, I did a great 10 miles on Saturday, it really was a good run and the weather was great, sunny but not hot and not really cold.

Sunday Spin class was excellent, if not hard, but the trainer reputation is one for hard work so it was expected. I felt really good after it.

This week than sees an evening session of lower body strength work and a core session on Wednesday.
So I think training is going ok.

Chesing Dreams Music by Adele

This is the start of the dream of a young girl, looking to the future.

Gym Training

This weekend saw me back in the gym getting in the training, with core and versa on Saturday. Versa is getting easier even the training session Steve puts me through on the Tuesday was not really very hard.

Spin on Friday I have not done for a bit and Steve does not do an easy class so yes it was punishing trying to get back in to it, but good. Yesterday was an 8.5 mile run, this is the longest run I have done in a few months and oh boy could I feel it towards the end. Its getting back in to that mental frame of mind as well as doing the long runs.

Life

New animation based on trying to find work - Music bt Adela

To My daughter - Music by Abba Slipping through my fingures

Finished

To My daughter - Music by Abba Slipping through my fingures

Finished

Domestic abuse Music by Kelly Clarkson

Finished.

Angry Bears ( Examples)

 Old Man Done in watercolours and chalk

Sketch of a wolf dog

The dogs gead(Watercolours and chalk)

Domestic abuse

Gradually pulling together the final animation and cleaning up. Last few seconds to think about ending.

Domestic abuse Music by Kelly Clarkson

In the last scene she is glad he has gone and she can move on, this is reflecting in her thinking . The images behind the tears.  I am nearly at the end just the chorus to add of the end and then clean up .

Marathon Training - 18 weeks to go

Training is slow, completed a heart rate bike session  the other day set by trainer , it always amazes me how as you get tierd how you have to adjust the speeds and strength levels down just to keep the  heart rate in the working zones.

These sessions are always long and yes boring but if you switch your mind in to gear they are good thinking times and the time then soon goes.

The Sunday spin class was packed, so had to opt for an all over gym session working upper. lower and core with Versa and bike intervals of 2mins each, and than a sprint three times three minutes vesra session.

So two different workouts done over the weekend. Still had too, have not yet seen trainer to confess to the chocloate biscuits I ate on Saturday, have not had choclote biscuits in over two years and Oh boy they where nice. Will take him the wrappers.  Ha Ha..

To My daughter - Music bty ABBA

To my daughter Draft animation put together, now looking to clean up and phase out ending.

Life drawing turnin to something else

 From life drawing at the Blue Plant

Do not destroy our environment you destrony us

The pony

In a snow globe

Fro a childrens book on mice

Domestic abuse animation Stronger by Kelly Clarkson

In between working and running the work I am doing on the abuse animation is on going, I am going to go bacvk in to the last part and edited some ideas, I want her to know he has gone as she sees her past life going and the furture although tough brighter. This next part is the instrumental before we hit the chorus again.

My race

This year has been one of injuries , but I managed to stay injury free to build my self back up to do the 10 K Wirral race.

It was a very cold but a lovely autumn day, the sun was high in the sky and the leaves in the park where a golden brown. I was full of nerves I did not sleep well that night I was more scared of this race than of doing the full marathon last year, I think because we had done so well in training last year I was ready for the big day. But training this year had not gone as well, it had been full of injuries, yet we had made it. We worked in the last 6 weeks to build me back up to strength, well at least run in this race. Extra sessions with my PT, he had pulled the stops out.


The start of the race was in a park, very muddy from all the rain we had this year, my friend grumbled that her trainers where getting dirty. It was busy  ten thousand people, some doing the full marathon, the rest of us the 10 K. We where late so not much time for warming up after going to the ladies. We climbed over the barriers that penned us all in and moved to the back I am slow, very slow so I prefer to be at the back so as not to get mowed down by the good runners. Moving to the side I tried to stretch out my legs the way Steve had taught me, it  was so cold I was worried my calf would not like to start off this run so cold. But its hard to stretch among ten thousand other people all crammed in between two barriers.

The important person started to speak, who he was or what he said we where too far at the back to hear. People started clapping , cheering we joined in laughing what are we cheering about. I guess we are starting. Slowly people started too move forwards at a slow walk at first than faster until there it was the start line and we break in to a jog , we are off.

The cold air hit my lungs as I started to breath hard , making it harder to breath, a man pointed and I looked down my shoe had undone, moving to the side I stopped to tie them back up. A tiger want by and some soldiers with kit bags, core its hard enough to get yourself around never mind with kit bags. Well done to them.  A lady pushing another in a wheel chair, fireman collecting for a good course.

So we run on, but its up hill now, goodness I trained on the flat and this is all hills one after another, another lady chats to me who put the hills in she groaned. I wanted to stop could not get my breath seems like we been running for ever and yet only two miles done. The cold weather effecting my lungs when I was younger I had both asthma and bronchitis and could never run, my trainer has done wonders with me. But this cold weather was making it difficult to breath, still stopping was not in the scheme of things, I only needed to think of my trainers disgusted face and this spares me on he can be quite tough at times, besides my bag is at the other end if I want my things I have got too finish.

Three miles we get water but its at the top of that hill, is that why they put it there to spare us up the hill and now the hills do kick in one after another you get to the top get your breath back and then up another you go. The spectator's cheering us on well done, keep going. This is what keeps you going.

Than at last down hill towards the finish 6 miles I thought here is the finish line, Oh no its not there, another woman groans I though 10K was 6 miles no its not the finish line is over there. Could we cheat and nip across the field what a bad thought. Most not cry they moved the finish line, got to keep going think of trainer's disapproving face if I do not and keep on going. A man joined me running alongside me come on nearly there he says, others who have finished with medals around their necks walk past smiling they had a right to smile they had finished, oh if only I was just a bit faster, I hate being so slow, most learn to go faster. Nearly there they shout.

There it is there is the line and at least 10 K has been done I fall over the finish line and grin at the young boy who gives me a medal finished I can stop running.

So I have the medal and the T shirt and I can text my trainer and say DONE.

Stronger By Kelly Clarkson

Carrying on with the work on the abuse animation, I kept to the idea of running as it is the exercise that this girl has chsen now she is free.

To My Daughter

This piece moves on , I am nearl at the end and than go back and clean it up I send this to these poor people who lost their daughter in wales, that poor little girl . My best wishes andd heart goes out to the mother.Interview done today waiting results

To my daughter- Music by ABBA

I am still working on to my daughter, here we read together thinking of the things we did or did not do. As i pull this animation together it is fun to think of the things we did. In terms of the animaton as I relook at it there are some clean up jobs to do.

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

Work goes on with the abuse animation

To My Daughter Music by Abba

The fun we had on an adventure in the lakes when I had to learn to fish and then climb a tree.

Gym Training

Since Kellie want back to school and me at University and working towards the 10K race in October I have been pretty busy, and OH job hunting and working on own business.

This week I have really worked hard since last Wednesday and so glad I am now to rest in training for the next two days. The run on wednesday was good and my legs seems to be holding and getting stronger.
I asked for a hard PT and I got it, I do not think I have ever until that day said to him I can not. It was a good session but it was hard, make no doubts on that well to me it was. I wanted to do better.

Friday I really focused in spin and closed out the rest of the class to focus on what I had to do, it kind of linked in to the training we did the day before about getting in to the zone, focusing.

Yesterday I tried a new spin class, the instructor had as working in keeping a steady rate through out the class, a bit like marathon distance training, but at a lower level. It was a nice class.

Today was just running again yes I can do the distance and the foot seems to be holding, but I feel like we are so close to the race and that really now I would like to do another run in the week to work on improving the run if this seems right.

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

The strength comes in the not ever going up no matter how awgul the situation. But the trust does go. But keeping going and peace can be found.

Gym Training

Its been a bit of an odd week for training, I was fed up on Tuesday but as Steve says and he was right, my training is Ad hoc due to the children being off and I can not focus or put together a propery training programme. But still I have done well to keep it going.

I want running from home yesterday it was a good 6 mile run and I ran well, but I find I tend not to warm up or stretch off as well as I do when I run from the gym, so today I paid for it with my hip playing up. I was out at 6am in the morning, and I missed the rain hard to do this year you usually get caught. By 7.30 I had showered and finished with exercise for that day. Only 6 more weeks or 5 training weeks until the 10K race.

Spin was a good class I enjoyed it but oh boy did my hip play up and its my own silly fault for not stretching off as well as I do when I run from the gym. I have fun in spin as I tend to go off in my own little world and look up and whilst I am busy peddling along in the rolling hills or down rivacre vally in to Eastham Village the rest of the class have sat back down in to their saddles or in some cases got out of thier saddles.

My Daughter

Carry on with the work my daughter, She is a little girlgrowing up but I think six weeks hol is too long already she is feeling low his week. Sitting on her DS did not really helping as it broke it and buying a new one is not something that can happen at the moment.

Stronger Kelly clarkson Abuse

The girl is free and now she stands on the hill wind blowing, I wanted to show the difference from the girls fear at being beaten yet again by her abusier and her strength now she is free.

To My Daughter Slipping through fingures ABBA

Waking in the morning I wanted to show having fun at the breakfast table and than her sleepy in the morning just wakeing up. i want to see Brave this week with my daughter from the trailers I was not looking forward to this. But it is a very good movie, A most for mother and daughter to see together. Its about the relationship between a mother and daughter and what brings them together.

The other point from an Art History point is it takes the idea of Tangled a step forward by Disney the Hero is the Female a strong female gone are the Disney pretty Princess but A real girl. Tangled was the first real girl, but still we had the prince of sorts. Here the Princess id the Protegenist, she holds the story together and it is the Mother and daughter that in the end save the day. The mother and daughter are both strong characters. Its a great story and made daughter cried at the end.  

|To My daughter ABBA

Kelly and I at the breakfast table we have fun sometimes.

Gym Training

Last weeks training Steve focused on leg strength development, not something we have done since my last ankle injury in March, so oh boy did I have sore legs,  by Wednesday night I was so so stiff, you would think after all the training and leg work stuff we did last year it would be near impossible for me to get stiff but well yes he got my legs.

The weekend was focused on upper body and versa. Tomorrow I hope to run 6 and that gradully build my speed and ability to do 6 ready for the Wirral 10K in 7 weeks time. If I complete that this year it will be an acchievemet considering the year of injuries I have had. Think last year I was running every week on one day at least 18 to 20 miles once a week , now I am struggleing to run 6.

I am looking forward to the paraolympics.

Seagulls

In this piece of music animation I have worked o the seagul flying that in its self was interesting .

Stronger Kelly Clarkson

Continue of the domestic abuse animation based on Kelly clarkson music, the girl is pushed down the staires, she climbs back and goes on to do climbing, all sports can give you that improved self esteem that you lose during this type of relation, if it be running, sailing, climbing. I used climbing here as it moves on well from the staires and I do love climbing although have not done much just recently.

Gym training - running

Gym training is going well, but still struggling with the ankle. I was suppose to do a 3 mile run for Nike yesterday but this was a round a track and I am the slowest person to run in the world, when you run around the roads no one knows if you are last but on a track they can see.

Added to this I have only just started running again after suffering injuries this year and so not really up to running against others, so with my friend who also is not in to track running we want for a 5 mile run, that was good and I am glad we did. I want to try to do the wirral 6 miles and that is where I want to put my focus , my training.

I watched Mo running his race on Saturday so amazing, watching the closing ceremony yesterday for the olympics brought tears to the eyes we have some amazing sportspeople and if there is something you can learn from them is that it takes a lot of hard work and determination but you can achieve your dreams. I know even though I am not a sportperson that last year to run the Liverpool full marathon took a lot of work by myself amd my Personal Trainer but I did acchieve that goal.  The hard thing to do is what do you do next when you have been so focused on that goal and than you have done it. This year its been a lot harder as the injuries have prevented any further running in marathons, but we have worked towards new goals. Steve has steered the training towards developing strength and this is working.

To my daughter - ABBA

This is the story to my daughter, the next part I am working on is the chorus, for this as it speaks of her slipping through my fingures I have continued with the time we want fishing together, we had fun, actually we where awful at it and when the man laughing at us told us if we caught a fisg to kill it by hitting it we where both horrified. We are both animal lovers so the fish want back in to the sea, in fact we are selves caught nothing that day, but we had fun.

Gym Training

The other day I got back up to running 5 miles, I ran the best 5 miles I have done in training for a bit not only did my ankle not play up but I did a good time for me.

Training has gone very well, perhapes I am inspired by the Olypmics I did not think I would be, but I love the Cycling and the rowing, the gymnastics and the runners. Its interesting the way the BBC have set this out as they look in to the training and how much work is done to get to the standarded to be in the Olypmics, the tears, the highs , the lows.

I have in the last week done a very good training week but yesterday in PT I was tierd and my performance dropped, but  even so I worked hard and oh boy do my abs hurt today. So great that it is rest day today. I am hopping that I can finish the year which has been full of injuries with the ability to do a really good 10 k in the Wirral/ Liverpool marathon at the end of this year.  

Sea Gull

I have been working on and off on this lookng at making the bird fly and studing the birds in our garden. This is a music animation

Blue Dolphin

This is a little stroy about a girl whos dolphin comea alive. I enjoyed working on the cat, we have a cat in our road and he is know as the bad cat by the child, he attacks and eat all other animals.

To My daughter - Music by ABBA

This is carrying on with the ABBa to my daughter, we are having some time together this year, and it reminds me of just how she is growing up. We have done the visit to the sea and in this part I wanted to show our short seaside watching the skyline trip.

Stronger Kelly Clarkson

Added on the shadow person against the victum, as abuse can come to all I wanted to make the person doing the abuse a shadow of a person. This is an animation more about the come back that no matter what if you are strong you will find away.

Gym training

Its been some time since I last wrote about gym training, I have been going to the gym. Started running again, and managed 3 small 3 mile runs, but by number 3 my ankle was being to course trouble again.

I have been finishing off my PT with Steve, we actually been working quite hard, in fact very hard yesterday. I am not sure if he was inspired by the Olymipics or what but oh my goodness, yesterday 2 mins flat out on the versa with a 2 min rest in between 4 times at the end was a killer. For te first time ever I had to sit in the changing room and get my breath. Oh boy I had worked. We had not worked at this level since the training for the Liverpool marathon.

I have been watching the Olymipics, well bits and pieces found the opening ceremony interesting. Well done to all our sportsmen and women.

I am going to I think carry on with Mr Steve, what made me think this was when I want to have a chat with a lady who is helping me to find a job, she made me realise how far I had come in the last three years not just by doing the university course and getting my degree, but in what I had accheived with Steve, the weight loss the marathons, but more important the confidence.

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

The Development of stronger work on thesong itself, after domestic abuse there is life. In the next stage I worked on Kelly sings you had the best of me. I used here the young woman full of trust and hope, but it turns sour she changes in happy grows larger, puts on weight the marks appear on her face, until finally the mirror breaks. Abuse can be for all walks of life, rich, poor, male, female, child and is not only hitting but the mental abuse this does not show itself, only maybe in weight gains.

To My Daughter

Continuing the work on the animation music  video to my daughter, I wated to show the woman thinking of the funn the evening sunlight between herself and her daughter a thought a good memory.

Amber Treasure by Richard Denning

A comment from the author and publish on the Amber Ttreasure animation.

Looking at doing a Kindle 8 version of the Amber Treasure with some animations and maybe audio (perhaps the recording I did of the book) and maybe some video about weapons and back ground. Here is a You tube video of a bit of the concept with some animation by student artist Alison Herr who approached me as part of her degree work. Now starting to learn HOW to format Kindle 8 which is WAY more complex than plain kindle. BUt its basically like coding web pages which I do have some knowledge of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vmXet2spdg&feature=youtu.be

I am working on the next book

Slipping through my fingures music by ABBA

I started this to my daughter, moving on from scene 1. I like to use the black and organge in the womans thoughs as she sits quietly thinking of her daughter.

Stronger - Music by Kelly clarkson

Stronger is about life, the understanding of what it is to be abused but then come back, there is life after. This is the beginning, the woman is running she has moved on from the old life is fitter stronger and a real fighter in life. So many woman fit this bill and it is not about running its about being stronger.

The backgrounds I love to do.

A scene from 2nd scene to ABBA nimation

Mother and child drafting apart as she grows up, a feeling that she is growing.

Iages from animation

 Stronger what it feels like the fear

 Image for seagull background

 My daughter goes to school

Music Animation - Music by Abba

I was watching the movie ABBa, and then my daughter, she is growing up so fast. This animation is too her and to all mothers and daughters as you watch them grow up have so many planes but time seems not to be there. This is scene 1.

Gym Training - Took my foot for a road test

A couple of days ago I want to buy new trainers, when I showed the chap what I wanted , my old trainers. He wanted to know where I had brought them. From this shop I replied, the sales man told me he had no ladies shoes in the style I needed so sold me a pair of mens.

Well he should not, he said. It turns out that with the style of shoe sold me last time, the way they are made for men and women are different due to the differances in the pelvic and leg area of men and women, the way a womans heal lands is different from a mans when running. So the shoe implants are placed in a different place. No wonder I had so many injuries. Now I have a ladies pair of trainers just right for me I hope. No I can feel the support is good now.

My PT session the other day was really good we worked hard on upper body, Steve says we need to focus on a few exercises and build strength up on these. I am back doing deadlifts. Its funny it was in my mind to ask him if we could go back to them now I am not running. How minds think a like some times.

Yesterday was rest day and today I worked shoulders, core and then decided to take my foot for a road test. I want very slowly, but covered three miles. My upper body and core feel very strong. Pleased about this not yet ready to run with my friend I have to take it slowly I can feel this in my body. Will not run again for a few days than do another slow three miles. I needed to do this with all the worries about getting a job, keeping a roof over our heads, nothing going right and everything I try going against me, I am bottling this up and I knew I needed to go out and run. Running is where I think. Its where I can come up with ideas. You have no mobiles, no distractions just you the pavement, fresh air and the road. 

Mirror Sitting

The time goes on and so does the story of th woman from dance to romance.

Gym training

Saturday was a good day for training, my new programme is doing well, and I am certainly feeling the stronger upper body. But I had to laugh going in to that male ish part of the gym I struggled to take the safety ends off the weights, well the damsel was rescued, and the man took the ends of the safety catches off. I guess I failed at the first hurdle so too speak. But still managed to get 10 reps out on 20 or 30 what ever the weight is now, Mr PT knows.

Well he did I finished PTs well handed my paperwork in yesterday he has done a good job, I lost the weight, ran some marathons inclusding a full, but now the time has come due to my busy scedule spelt that wrong to go it a lone. I am a big girl now in terms of the gym, well not but I have learnt and I am sure I will be fine. He will I hope be pleased at his first scuccess and prode that I am going it alone, well at least trying.

Diet is doing fine and I am sure I will do this too.

No training today and tomorrow busy.

Background to sea gulls

The Blue Dolphin

The start of a new idea the story of a Blue Dophin. The start the bad white cat sits on the lawn waiting. 

Gym Training

Really happy with new programme, did a good session in the gym today. Getting stronger too, Halo can do 10 at 10 now 5 at 15. Chester press 10 reps at 5, first time good. It was mainly an upper body day with core thrown in, followed my programme. What I am doing makes more sence at the moment.  

Versa was good too, most of been on form or just ready and rested.

Diet is going well still too, I was watching yesterday on the news of how a very lovely girl killed herself because of weight, starving herself to be slim and then hung herself. This was followed by a special report on another channel of children dying from starvation, they have no food.

Its sad and yet at two ends of the perspectrum we have people dieing over food, one side we have food but media and our own lifestyles, other people expectations of us, can make us go to extremes to be slim. The other they just do not have the food.    

Diet but no gym rest day.

No Gym today, diet going well. I think if you build the diet in to your life style and your pocket ie foods you can afford you will do this. For the most part I find that fruit and veg and chicken drumsticks are not expensive at all and therefore one can do this.

I think that when we get a diet from any source we need to look at how we can really do this with out it being a five minute wonder, which can be the case in most diets. My steady success has been in the changes that have been made over the year and a half I have trained with Steve, from not eating at all , drinking loads of coffee and even writing one day I have just eaten popcorn at the pictures to now eating eggs and tomatoes fruit for breakfast, a snack of fruit, chicken salad for lunch, carrott and cucmber sticks for afternoon and a dinner with veg. Not bad really, still have the odd ice cream here and there.  

WDCS - Dolphin Final

With final admendments, done for the WDCS on pollution in our seas. I have learnt a lot during this project, not just on animation but on the pollution that goes on in our seas. For each project like this a lot of research has to be done. All so the WDCS worked with me and helped with great. I owe them a great big thank you.

Gym Training

The weekend saw a day of core and a day of lower body, my ankle is slowly getting better and so I introduced the lower body work and some versa. Versa I was slower due to the ankle but that I guess is only to be expected. The advice of my trainer saw me able to do more exercises than I would of, reducing the weight on the leg press, I was able to do this with out any problems when I would not of tried. It was funny I had a laugh as my freind who is a long time exerciser tried to teach me to do a plank on a ball, the ball kept rolling away and we kept laughing, well exercise is soooo serious, no it should be fun, but we did get some looks.

Yesterday was rest and today was a new programme and clirfication of what I am doing in the gym, as I said before my motivation has hit an all time low. I have lost the weight, yes I size 30 to a size 12 to 14 depending on where you shop. A lady stopped me in the streets on Friday she goes to the DL she told me that she had been watching my trainer working with me, you are half the woman your where when you started, you have both done so well.  Its funny you think no body notices , you are in your own little bubble, but so many people are watching.

So where are we going, well not long marathons that is over,  I do not think my ankle would take it. Leaner and fitter yes, and when the rest of my life is like a leaking boat I plog one hole and another leaks, everything up in the air, battling to get my animation business off the ground, trying to find a job so I can look after my daughter, this is the one thing that is stable. I have a new programme and can not wait to get started, once I have started I think I will be ok, I am on my way. It relates to what he is doing with me.

Diet well other than on Saturday I ate ice cream that is going ok. I guess you have to slip here and there we are only human. But now I have the fruit, chiken, veg in place and even the carrot, the answer I cook them and eat them the following day. Sorry can not do raw. Cumcumber too are ok.

Fairy at the bottom of the garden

As I work on this idea, it comes from a book and old film fairies at the bottom of my garden idea.  This is just the Purple fairy moving to meet her friends, working on her flying and wings. the work

Development of the The Mirror Sitting

As the girls hair grows as time moves on, we see more development of the young girls life, this time she dances.

Gym Training

Again its been a week since I last posted, its difficult with the ankle injury and of course no longer entering any runs, I have little or no motivation, I am keeping on going, I ve done my own programmes but this does not really help, I wish deep in my heart that my trainer would do me a new hard programe based on what we talked about on Thursday just to give me that motivation push and freshen things up. I have lost the weight and run the marathon, may be I should climb the moutain, I am an out door girl and I used to climb. I love the out dors and the wildlife.

I am geting to the point now that I can do by myself and understand what I am doing, as my PT car broke down on Tuesday I felt quite prode of myself at being able to put and do an upper body programme all by myself and then for him to say good that is all I would of done, not sure if he was just being nice. But on thinking about it really I have learnt under his training therefore I am highly likely to put together his routes.

Thursday PT was good, hard as my arms where already tierd from the Tuesday session, it was very intensive on the upper body and today my shoulder ache a bit. But it was a good session he is a very good trainer. Spin today was good but I felt so unfit, I struggled its amazing how fast your fittnes level drops. But the ankle held and felt better and tomorrow I am going to introduce Versa in to my programme of core.  See I am doing all my own training. Do I need a PT, this question was put to me by another PT, there seems to be quite a bit of , not sure what I am trying to say here, but some how I seem to of got involved in it with out really knowing and I thinking may be if I drop PT they will leave me alone.   I just want to go to the gym and train and get what I can out of it.

  

Water Hole stalking horses

So the dance eson the Elehant, lion and zebra all make there way to the water hole

3 new images

Fairies in my garden

Girlk and a blue dolphin

the Mirror sitting

Gym training

Well today I did not want to train, is hard when you have no goal, or what seems to be no goal, I do not fully understand what my trainer is talking about when he says we are working fo tone, strength, what ever.
My diet is going well I am plodding on with this carrott stick. No wonder we all give up , a carrott stick is so uninspiring. I keep looking at my rabbitt who eyes my carrot with hungry eyes and say Oh Bradley how could you. I guess I will never be a rabbit.

I worked core, it was humid in the gym so this was made harder, Still managed to do a bit, a long with talking. Had some interest ideas on the reason we women do not eat during the day, take the kids to school, than busy rushing around all day, we see the clock hits 1 and realise we will picking up the kids and then its tea time and we are doing the family meal so now surrounded by cooking food we start to eat, because oh boy we are hungery.

Other ideas the calorie count we are doing so well storing up our calories during the day so we can go mad at night. These are just a few thoughs my friends have come up with, but mostly we all just do it but when we think about it we do not know really why and we know its not right.

Well I do not do it now have not since I started training with Mr PT, he has done well when I think about it how he has managed to re educate me, slowly over time to change my eating habits.

Final post on marathon training

Yesterday I had phsio on my ankle it is my achillies tendon that has gone again, it is quite bad. I seem to have developed a weakness here. with personal issues I have decided that I will not be running any marathons this year. I want to concentrate on getting my ankle better and gaining full health and fitness.

Also I need to concentrate on gettuing a job and getting my animation business off the ground. I hope that I may still do the animation video for Rainbows, I would like dearly to help gain them promotion for the work they do, as it is very much needed, but running I do not think I can do .

Yesterday I worked with Mr PT on upper body strength, I know the importance of this I can feel it, its funny how as women we tend only to do lower body training, but upper body is equally important.
Diet too I am focus on getting this right and making the small but needed improvments, I do feel better for it, I have cut back on the fruit and started eating more veg. I was talking to my physio about the idea that so many women have of not eating duing the day at all, where it came from I can not remember any one ever saying do not eat to lose weight, it just came but where from. It does not work so why do we do it.  It was quite a deep conversation. But neither of us had an answer.

Eating raw carrott yek, I have to say I did not really get to grips with this, who would be a rabbit, I ended up cooking it and eating it that way. I do enjoy the natural yougert thought this is good. 

Marathon training

My ankle has gone yet again, this is not a good year for me, first my tendon in Jan, than my hamstring, now my ankle again.

Yesterday I spoke with trainer, so we are back again to training in the gym, I do not mind, its pouring with rain the weather is awful so its nice to get back in to the gym.

Yesterday as my ankle was very sore and I was limping around, we talked diet, I was saying that it is so much easier to develop and change the diet the way we have, slowly and natural making small changes here and there, so I can stick to it because I can and it is with in food budget. Now we have added more small changes to what I eat, targetting the in between foods such as celery, strawberries, natural yougerts etc. 

No one ever lost weight by not eating I have heard so many mothers in the school playground saying they do not eat all day but then at night. I have found what I am doing is better and I feel better, the idea that you will gain weight by eating is some how a commom theme among us, and yet if you really eat the right foods you will not gain weight.

I am resting my ankle today and concentrating on trying to find work.

Fashion illustration

ature

Fire

In  the eyes

Jadorie - Perfumne

Celtic

Nature and woman

Fumes

Water colour and chalk

The old man , reminds me of a sea faring, done in water colour and chalk

The dog watercolor and chalk

Turtle animation - start of

i have rewoked the start of the turtleanimatn but want to rework even further the scenes at the moment feel a bit disjointed.

Mirror Sitting

A music animation thi has ben redevoped and worked on,alot to do with movment of background, changes in time.

WaterHole by stalking horses

Inspirede by my love of animals and the fact I onced dance, my love for music.

Marathon training 6/6/2012

Two days rest, which where great watching the Queen we do this  pomp stuff so very well. Repotted the plants, lettuce, tomatoes sunflowers, herbs.

Started the new food plan, As I said its just making small changes, I was looking bacl at other diet advise Steve has given me over the time training, it seems like I have moved slowly in developing and changing what I eat and this is possible better than actually a full blown we have to change everything. That way I make the changes and stick to them in my own time.

10 miles ran today it was very tough, I struggled to do this. Both motivation I wanted to stop and my fittness. Still its a good feeling I have done it and that is it until next week.

Marathon run 2 June 2012

Yesterday I completed the gym core, it was a good session all though not hard. I found I was working quietly and peacefully. Did the 8 times with a count of 10 abs exercise, sames with Planks. This is very intensive and Steve does have a name for it but I am not sure what. I followed this with side planks, other ab exercises, ball bridge, in between doing the versa and finally as all ways stretchs.

Added in balance work that was not that good, funny how your balance can be effected day by day.

Today is lower body work lots of squats will do that 10 squats 10 lunges, the circuit squats and lunges with cowbells and dropping medicine ball etc. That inside thigh machine and leg press. With of course the dear old versa, bike.

Than its rest day tomorrow and Tuesday.

I started the food plan, when I looked at it I though I am not far off , my eating since I started with Steve has changed quite a lot, and its not far off, I do not want to go mad I am not a top sportswoman just a little housewife, perhapes a very silly one, or stupid not sure. What ever just ordinary  so I do not want to go mad, just make chahges that will help me and I can keep up, any way I want to see how it makes me feel, healthier, good that is what is important. This morning I started these changes, I had egg not thee but two, and tomatoes and wholemeal. I feel quite light and good. Snack I have yougert and grapes. The cottage cheese and wholemeal toast is nice. The beef, and chicken and veg I already do.





 

Marathon training log June 2

I have not really written anything on my log as I have been ill with a chest infection, that has set me back a bit. I could not run the Manchester 10 k this was a big disappointment as I was to meet the team of the rainbow childrens charity who I am running for.

The other day was really my first big training run since the Liverpool half marathon, it was raining but better than running in the heat and I cover 8.5 miles and got lost on the way following the diversions for the cars as the pavement was closed, not really knowing where I was going , hence the extra .5 of a mile. My next run will be on Wednesday and is 10 miles. So here I go I am not the fastest runner in the world, rather the slowest so it,s like a day trip as the miles are added on. I most get a Tee shirt from the Rainbow group as I spend so long on the open road its good promtion and raising awrness for them.

I have been very demotivated in my training in the gym, I seem to be doing the same thing over and over again by myself and I know I need to start to get in to shape, i have learnt that the body adaptes so constant change is needed. I have written out three programmes myself and I hope I will be ok.

So this week its core today, lower body strentgh on Sunday, rest Monday and Tues and run Wednesday. gym Thursday and so on.

Core will be a good helping of my PT 8 repeated exercise with a count of 20 for rest. This is pretty intense. Added to a balance regium and versa. All done in an inteveral. Mostly I have too admit that when I say I have written out my programm I have actually barrowed my PT exercises and anyway when I do see him I can say see I do them better. Not sure what he would think of my programms but I reackon I made a good attempt.

Yesterday was spin that was a killer, some women talk in this class I am not sure how I am always sweaty and out of breath and look like something the cat dragged in afterwords, well actually before too, just worse afterwords. They most be very fit I am guessing. I have lost a lot of weight this week surprising.

I had a big chat with my PT and I am doing a longside this some muscle stregth , buliding exercise , but its all in the diet so I have a new diet which I am starting today. I am not sure when we start the exercise part that is with Mr PT and I have no PT book next week. Very excited about this. But lets not lose sight of the real issue I am doing this for children.

Training Log - Marathon

I have not written in this much as I have been ill, chest infection knocked me right back.
But yesterday I ran 8 .5 miles, I was really pleased it was a good run. I have just told the ladies at the club so now it is about what I most do the two back to back marathons.

Animation BOOk - Fairies in my forest

A book about a little girl who has fairies in the forest at the bottom of the gareden

Thank you to all my tutors

Atd of my thrid year I would like to thank all my tutors for their support and help and advice.  To Nick for being their all through out our 3 years, for Ashley and Matthew for their great support and help in the final years work of animation. To Lewis for his help and support in the History of animatiom.

I have learnt a lot thank you

E- BOOK - Robert Denning The Amber Treasure

E- Book for Kindle or other electronic devices, web books, an historical book.

a Mirror Sitting by Anne Rex Carter

Working on a theme of the skys moving, the development of time idea with owls, stonehendge and people moving in and out of time.

Water Hole

Start of a water hole dance animation about animals around a water hole

Mirror Sitting

 The Fairies in my garden story book background

Blue dolphin

The wild life waterhole animation backgrouns

Continuing the work on Mirror sitting I have completey changed the beginning. It is a continuaion with the work I am doing on background animation. If anything I would say this tutor has a real big influence on how I look at backgrounds. I watched the other day happy feet and the old Disney Hercules, it is interested to see the development but the handdrawn disney are wonderful

Marathon Training - 20/5/2012

Have not really done any training due to my cold, its hit me hard with a facxe full of cold sores. Still Saturday I did a good session even managed to do a little circuit by myself, core.

I was tierd though yesterday and so I did no training at all, just rested, this did me the power of good. I enjoy not going to the gym sometimes, it can get to be like a chore at times. I think tring to find a happy balance is important, even when training for a marathon.

Today I did a three mile run I was pleased with this as I am still not a 100 % and it felt like 26 not 3. Still it was a lovely day for a run , clear blue skies and quite warm. Is this our summer.

Run training log

As I have had a cold, I an recovering very slowly so just did a nimce slow training session, 20 mins on the bike and a little bit of core and balance.

It felt good, I took it easy.

I am not sure what I do tomorrow was suppose to be training with PT I think but he has not contacted me so I guess I will just take it easy again tomorrow.

Been thinking about my training plan for the 2 marathons, looking like Sunday upper body, Monday - Long run, Tuesday, - Lower body , Wednesday and Thursday - rest. Friday short run and stretch.

But we will see this can be flexible.

WDCS Dolphin

Amended time spans to allow for reading.

With character Water Hole and Blue Dolphin

 Girl with a blue dolphin- a little girl who s old blue dolphin holds a secret.

Water hole the Lion and the elephant come to drink

Marathon training log 15/5/2012

Should I call this a marathon training log, I have done nothing all weekend, really bad cold  and chest.
Its been great to actually stay at home and not train, but I still have a 10 K marathon to ru in Manachester this sunday for the Childrens Rainbow charity, the start up of the long hard work to the  double marathon.


I am looking to put fund raising on line this week.  http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/herrallison


http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/herrallison The Rainbow trust website.

Two New Backgrounds

Background to a piece of music called the water hole.

Background to a story of a little girl and her blue dolphin

Turtle Swim

Added extra feames, after speaking too tutor.

WDCs Dolphin

Amended logo at end, extended bubbles at noise, tidy up pollution. Re a lined sound.

Marathon training - Run

What a lovely day for a run today, we did 6 miles and I talked all the way, its nice to have someone to run with you.

I know I have got to start upping the miles, but it was a good 6 if not a bit slow. I am slow.

Still the birds where singing, lots of people walking their dogs and the trees look really wonderful with all their fresh green leaves. They got it wrong the weather man.

My friend is hoping to do the Manachester Bupa 10k with me, she is a great friend , great support even thought she tinks I am mad and looked at me when I told her, what on earth has got in too you.

Back in time for a foam roll oh yes mR PT I foam roll now and stretch.

Tomorrow is rest day and back in on Tuesday with Mr PT. I am ready for a PT session I work hard but not as hard as I am going to have too  and having one for upper and one for lower I think works well when training for a marathon, it got me through last time.

Marathon training

Todays was a core interval day, working between doing planks and sits up, with 2 meters versa climber and 5 min intervals on bike x 4. Than balance on the wobble thing and a circuit of balances and cowbell swings designed by my trainer.

It was a good work out but it was a bit embarrasing, properly spelt that wrong I split my new pants, Oh dear I whispered to my friend and left the gym some what quickly, so no stretching.

It can only happen to me, kind of thing.

My friend is going to do the Manchester 10 k with me, I have entered it for the charity Ranibow A childrens charity.
I am running my two back to back marathons for this charity. I think about this challenge and wonder what have I done. My friend just stared at me open mouth. OH was all she said trust you.

So I continue on my way to run these two.

Ran 3 miles this morning really feel good.  It was a nice run, the weather just right.
Charites are talking with me RNLI and Childrens charity, been asked too run the great north Manachester run as well for them.

Going to be possible working on  run animation

The Dream

I have updated and reworked the Dream, after chatting with Tutor it losed too soon before he ending and did not slowly blend out now it does.

Running Log

To day is rest day, worked on Dolphin animation and E book in college.
training was good yesterday but tough and I think that was partly because I was tierd, 6 days of hard training . You can tell I put the training programme together this week, no rest days.  As always my trainer is right my perforamance was slow due to it being the 6 day and rest.

But now for 2 days rest. My goal now is to run two full marathons back to back for chaity. This will be tough I am not a natural runner, nor built for running. I guess part of the training will be about how quickly I can recover to do the next marathon. Still I have a good trainer.

WDCS Dolphin redited

Animation edited work on speech bubbles, and text.

Chapter 19 e _ book

Front cover - E Book

E book Final chapters

Chapter 5

Lavender Swim Update

More frames added to make the swim of turtle slower.

Marathopn run

Yesterday I had PT on my legs, it was a nice training session, he worked my legs hard, still I was able to do 6 miles today. I enjoyed the run it was a great day and I had a good think One year ago I was over weight a size 30 and my abusive husband throw me and my daughter out.

From that date I have done a university degree I finish this June and
lost weight and ran two marathons, one full. I am currently looking at being unemployed inspite of my degree, and I am fighting to get a job. Rather than being down by this I have decided to put my running to some use.

My idea is with my trainer to run two (maybe three)half marathons backto back and finish with a full Marathon the Liverpool full being the final. I have the marathons and now I am looking for the charity.

Liverpool marathon running log

5 miles today, I was right my friend runs faster than me, thats why it feels harder for me to run with her, out of breath, its good for me to go with her from time to time instead of plodding around at my very dead, slow and stop pace. I do not run or jog but trot. Still as long as my batteries keep going I will I think.

It stopped raining why we ran so that was cool, its been not stop raining.  Than stretch class thats improved from last week. Tomorrow its intervals and core and upperbody.

I watched the two man who complete the Paris marathon than cycle from Paris to Calais, rowed across the channel and than cycle from Dover to  London and finished with the London Marathon, amazing all for charity. This man has cancer I think and does this for charity. So inspiring.

Dolphin with sound Text 2

Here we have given extra time for reading and re added the sound track.

E Books Slides

Background slides for two chapters of the E - Book, working on animation.

Dolphin

Now starting on clean up

Mirrorsitting

I wasting Happy Feet 2 I love the way they get the layers for the snow scene to make it look as if they are being pulled back , te dirent sky and snow blows, here I am continuing to work on backgrounds moving.

24/4/2012 Running log

Today it was a PT session with my trainer the same man that got me through weight loss and the last marathon. Upper body, quite a bit on shoulders and oh boy did those first exercises kill, I thought by set two there is no way I will do a set three. But  I did, then on to chest and more shoulders my thoughts where but my arms will not raise above my head. THEY DID.

It was a teaching session I didnot realise that we start to burn fat much quicker when doing weights first, than in just pure CV. This was followed by Intervals I am not good on the treadmil but try

The stretch class its a good balance of stretch which I need for my hamstrings at the moment and strength.

23/4/2012 Running LOg for Liverpool Marathon

6 miles completed, I feel good for doing it and pleased I did, my hamstring where pulling a bit but going at a slower pace and I got around.
 My hamstrings need stretching and strengthing, but so I can slowly build the miles up and my fittness.
Fitnness wise is was a good run. Anyway the hamstring issue I hope my trainer has the answer.

Running helps me think, today it was about the disapppointment of another job rejection, the job market is so poor with so many people going for just one job its so hard and I have little Kellie to consider. She is happy today they are doing painting in school and then she has street dance this evening. She is growing up for the first time yesterday she asked her hairdresser to style her hair, this is a change from my little tomboy up a tree can not be bother approach. Although when she got home she joined her friend up their favourite tree. So this afternoon it is work on the E_ BOOK animation for university.

Still no band come forward with a piece of music.

Training done Liverpool Marathon log

Well training done, use Mervin square hips , my balance and plank exercises have improved using this. Started a new exercise on balance, and more new exercises given by trainer. The turning plank is hard to do I look so funny, but by the 3rd set managed to do something that looked right, well it felt right ish. Not sure if I am doing the leg in to stomach whilst in plank right, it just seems so easy. My trainer feels that core should be done as an exercise session in its self and not as part of an upper body or lower body session. Then you can give it a good well , controlled work out. Well after all it is important after training as a dancer I can agree that a soggey center is no good, you whole being and being able to achieve movment is based around a good core.
The gym was busy today , busier than I have seen it for a bit on a Sunday, but found a spot and got on with it. 5 x 200 meters on versa. Treadmil intervals ish I just can not get over my thought that I might fall off.

Feel very good and enjoyed the training, I think my core is getting stronger. My friend said we did well in our run last Friday we can in faster than the other more advanced runners, we made a good time and they ran the same distance 5 miles. I am wondering if that was why I felt so sick, she is faster than me so if we are running faster. Well could be I will see when I go out tomorrow for 6 miles. But that is good news.

Watching the London Marathon, the unsung heros at the back raising money for chairty they are great.
This afternoon I will continue with the work on the Dolphin animation, you can see this on this blog it know has sound to it.
 

Log 22/4/2012

Today is my day for doing interval training my trainer tells me that this is a good way to burn calories and stress the body I think is what he means, surprise it.

I am doing core, planks and have some new exercises to practise, it has always been the way I work with him, learn new exercise and practise then till they are right. Then we move on.

So its core and some circuit work with cowbells and ball dropping and side lunges another circuit I learnt with my trainer with versa inbetween. Versa always kills but I can do 200 meters on it now per interval. about 5 x 200 meters and the great final the interval run .

I am not good on the treadmil, it makes me nervous I can not get over my fear that I am going to fall off. But I keep on trying.  thats only for 10 to 15 mins I hope. Walk for 1 min or 30 sec and then run at 7.0 will try to up this to 7.2 for 1 min to 30 secs. Than I good stretch.

This is my 2nd log for the liverpool marathon training. 

21 April 2012

In the training up to the Liverpool marathon I have decided to blog about it, well my training.

Last year I lost a lot of weight from a size 30 to a size 12, then trained with my PT for the Liverpool Marathon, yes I did it a full 26.2 miles. I am about to try to this again. I wish the people running the London marathon today good luck it is no more feat.

Today I am resting and working on my animation you can see these on this site, that is my dream to be an animator, but for the moment just to get a job so I can put a roof over my daughters head and food on the table.

Yesterday I ran 5 miles not even half of the 26.2 I will have to do, I am badly out of shape, the stretch class showed this too. I spoke with my trainer you will hear me speak of him often Move- Health or Steve or the boss or just MR PT. He has got me through all my weight loss and marathons and I think he has a job ahead of him, but I guess we will do it. So its rest day today.and work on my Dolphin animation.

I am looking to do a music animation but so far no artist has sent me any music or given me their ideas, funny really as they will get the credits etc. Promotion is the name of the game in both our industries.

Dolphin with sound added TEXt

 EDITED THE dolphin too slow the boots down so people can see , spent the morning with tutor looking at sound tracks and edited them in to the animation, different tracks for dolphins, guns, sonar , waves.

Dolphin work goes on

Slowed a few scenes down, cleaned up clouds in one scene, new comments from WDCSjust came in

Chapter !6

E _ Book Chapter 18

Mirror Sitting

Just Started work on the Mirror sitting changing ideas as I Go . Feature the Squirral .

Turtle Swim

Finished this Scene but need review swim

SCENE 3 - The Tutle swim

Carrying on with the work on the little tuttle, need to review his swim will do this with chat with tutor