Random Ramblings...

Last Sunday I took part and completed my first half marathon, The 30th BUPA Great North Run as part of a team from TBWA\Manchester.  Everyone did really well with their respective runs and as I type we have raised £1,765.00 for Henshaws, Society for Blind People.  If you still want to donate, its not too late and every penny is really appreciated.

I managed to just sneak inside my target of sub 2 hours, with a time of 1 hour 58 minutes 09 seconds, finishing an overall postion of 10497 out of 54000 runners.  So only any hour behind Haile Gebrselassie!

Split times:
5k:  00:25:05
10k: 00:51:55
15k: 01:19:31
Finish: 01:58:09

http://go.nike.com/08l8h6ql

PS. Thanks to the lovely lady who gave me an ice pop at around the 11 mile mark, not sure I would have made it to the end without the sugar hit!

www.greatrun.org
www.henshaws.org.uk
www.justgiving.com/tbwa

So on Sunday 16th May I took part in my first long distance run, the BUPA Great Manchester 10k.  I'd prepared pretty well with plenty of training sessions and I managed to finish bang on my target of 50 minutes.  Although I'm pleased with this result I felt as I crossed the line I could have done shaved a further minute or two off my time after pacing myself a bit too much early on, but we'll put this down to experience and I'll be faster next time!

After being a bit slack with raising any sort of sponsorship I am pleased to confirm that I raised £150 (+ £42.31 gift aid) in just under a week for the Alzheimers Society

Useful links:
www.alzheimers.org.uk/
twitter.com/alzheimerssoc
www.greatrun.org
www.justgiving.com/BenTopliss