Day 2
A 6am start with clear bright skies and jogging up the hill with lots of racing and interval training is about the opposite to how I spend my Saturday mornings- the only time I'd ever be up this early is if I hadn't been to bed yet!. Yawning I chase after the other girls, placing on heavy foot in front of the other. Breakfast is a meagre bowl of muesli and then we're loaded onto a coach. After a 30 minute snooze I wake up to find we've arrived- and gleaming out the window is the sparkling Devon sea, with sandy dunes aplenty and seagulls cawing overhead.
We spend the next two hours strenuously circuit training and rope pulling, and I'm particularly appalling at the tug of war challenge, getting all girly and not wanting to break a nail. Next we take a seriously looong hike along the coastline, but thought he view is beautiful my hip flexors are really starting to ache- we've hardly begun and already I'm feeling tired and sore!
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In an attempt to look super svelte at the multiple weddings I'm attending this summer I'm heading down to Devon to try out the Ultimate BootCamp Weekend- think four days of enforced exercise, controlled diets and 5am wake up calls. My kit list request 4 pairs of trainer -2 outdoor, 1 indoor and 1 walking boot and a total of nine tops, so I guess I'm going to be worked pretty hard., This is the diary of my experience.
Day 1
I arrive in the wilds of Devon after a 3 hour train ride to meet four similarly nervous looking women at the train station. Two men wearing army gear introduce themselves and load up our bags in the minibus and drive us to the secret location - a country estate with 52 hectares of grassland and Enid Blyton style cottages, washed in white. The beds have Cath Kidston coverlets and everything is very quaint and adorable, with a notable lack of anything processed or chocolaty- it feels more like a vacation than an attempt to knock my body into shape.
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Day three of my bright eye challenge (technically day four, but Wednesday's sick day doesn't count) and I was still feeling a bit under the weather so I decided to go for something really simple - if only because it gave me a few more minutes in bed (yes, that also explains the hair in the pic below). I made the mistake of wearing a red and black dress which didn't give me much choice when it came to colour, so I decided to say 'screw it' and go for bright, bold blue liner...
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Apologies for going MIA for a day right at the beginning of my bright eyes trial, sadly day 3 was spent in bed ill, so I'm a little behind on my reports. That means going back to Tuesday, day two of my trial, when I gave a trickier colour a go, pink. Obviously it's a hard one to get right without looking like you're suffering from hayfever or recovering from a crying fit, but I thought it was worth a go, so I mixed my pink with a bit of green for a blended stripe...
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First things first. I know in the poll you guys voted that the next challenge faced by the team should be a week of no makeup. but I'm leaving that one to Zara. My skin is a real mess at the moment, and I need my mineral foundation!
So it was up to me to try out one of the other top voted choices, and I opted for bright eyes, because I've been lazy about eye makeup for ages now, and it was a good excuse for me to try some new things. With no further ado, I bring you day one of bright eyes, and my attempt at something in teal and turquoise...
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