Sightsavers are an international charity with a spare place in the Mumbai Marathon on 15 Jan 2012 and Skywards miles to offer a runner and their friend or partner free flights to Mumbai. They are running a free prize draw in November targeting people already training for a marathon and fit enough to take part. The URL to link is: www.sightsavers.org/RunMumbai
If you have any questions about the competition or suggestions on how to promote it further please contact Beth Gardner bgardner@sightsavers.org
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Survival of the fittest 10k - last call!?!
Hi all,
Anyone interested in doing the ''survival of the fittest'' 10k next Saturday? Its at Battersea power station and has a lot of challenges, so not your usual 10k jog!
http://www.mhsurvival.co.uk/page31.asp
I have a promo code if you're interested! Only one start time-slot remaining so be quick!
Cheers
Fiona
Anyone interested in doing the ''survival of the fittest'' 10k next Saturday? Its at Battersea power station and has a lot of challenges, so not your usual 10k jog!
http://www.mhsurvival.co.uk/page31.asp
I have a promo code if you're interested! Only one start time-slot remaining so be quick!
Cheers
Fiona
Monday, October 10, 2011
Survival of the fittest & Budapest almost-marathon!
Hi all,
I may have sneakily (& rather naughtily) run the Budapest 30km section of the marathon a few weeks ago! Here is a pic of me at heroes square just near to the much sought after finish line! What a beautiful city to run in! The weather was hot (a balmy 32 degrees) and it was lovely to run along the banks of the Danube river and admire the Hungarian architecture! I was supposed to be resting a foot that has had a bout of Plantar Fascia recently, but I couldn't resist the temptation and have to say resting it for a few months beforehand has helped and it seems to be doing okay so far! Touch wood - and yes, I am tapping my head!
On the recruitment front, anyone interested in Battersea's survival of the fittest 10km on 12th Nov?
I just entered the 2pm wave and would love to have some keen punters to run/obstacle/struggle through the muddy cargo nets with!
See you at training!
Fi
Friday, October 7, 2011
Windsor Half Marathon 2011
I've run the Windsor Half a few times now, drawn into it as there's an inter-company challenge race for the Construction Industry. I threw in a speculative entry in February and forgot about it
In August - having been doing nothing more than Tuesday and Thursday training sessions all year - I thought I'd better do something about the forthcoming distance and set about a couple of 8mile weekend runs in rather unspectacular times. I resigned myself to forfeiting my entry...until everyone down the track on the Thursday before the race bullied me into running!
So, with insufficient training, but with positive vibes from the club and lots of upbeat music in my iPod I set off!
In August - having been doing nothing more than Tuesday and Thursday training sessions all year - I thought I'd better do something about the forthcoming distance and set about a couple of 8mile weekend runs in rather unspectacular times. I resigned myself to forfeiting my entry...until everyone down the track on the Thursday before the race bullied me into running!
So, with insufficient training, but with positive vibes from the club and lots of upbeat music in my iPod I set off!
If the photo uploads properly, that's me one mile in with most of the first hill behind me. I knew there was a bigger hill at 8miles and another at 10 - but hills just seemed to keep coming this year - far more than I remembered! But each time I just cranked up the music and kept pushing - Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Unfinished Sympathy and Numb by Linkin Park seemed to keep me going when I really needed it.
The course is a small loop followed by a larger loop - all within Windsor Great Park and always seems to be a great weekend for weather, so there's lots of supporters out and about. The final mile is dead-straight with Windsor Castle in the distance, but has a habit of catching people out. You come round the corner at the top of the hill and see the finish and people start sprinting...but then you go into a dip and lose sight of the finish and it seems the longest mile ever!
But the crowds get deeper towards the finish line and everyone is cheering and the commentator is calling out as many names and numbers as possible and it all helps to get you over the line. And in my case - a new PB of 1:33:11 :-)
I wouldn't entirely recommend my method of preparing for a Half - putting a few more miles in the legs before the race would be sensible! But if I can do that time off Tuesday's and Thursday's only then Jon is obviously doing something right with his training regime.
So, my 1:30 target is still out there. Now I need to find another half to target it on, and prepare properly for a change....
Martin
Rat Race 2011
Date: Sunday 25th September
Time: 9-5pm, 8am rendezvous
Location: London (Tower Bridge, Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf, Arsenal, Stoke Newington, St John's Wood, Mile End and Kennington)
One a rather pleasant late September morning myself, Fiona and her friend also handily called Fiona(meaming I only had to shout one name for the two of them to respond) embarked on cycle tour of London with varous challenges along the way. Over the course of the day we covered 11.2km on foot, 53km on bike, 1km in a kayak and a 20m swim! - why you may ask? Because it is fun and we got to do things that you can't do otherwise.
Afte a quick challenge on foot (1000 runners in black t-shirts running around central London, bemusing tourists), we cycled to the isle of dogs where we hopped off our bikes to do a spot of orienteering followed by a cold 20m swim in the Thames (in all our race gear - which was lovely as it helped cool us down as we were already working up quite a sweat).
It was then back on our bikes to cycle (whilst getting slightly confused with the directions) to our next water experience kayaking by the Excel centre. From there we cycled to Arsenal and arond the stadium and onwards to Stoke Newington where we had to travese a climbing wall.
Time: 9-5pm, 8am rendezvous
Location: London (Tower Bridge, Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf, Arsenal, Stoke Newington, St John's Wood, Mile End and Kennington)
One a rather pleasant late September morning myself, Fiona and her friend also handily called Fiona(meaming I only had to shout one name for the two of them to respond) embarked on cycle tour of London with varous challenges along the way. Over the course of the day we covered 11.2km on foot, 53km on bike, 1km in a kayak and a 20m swim! - why you may ask? Because it is fun and we got to do things that you can't do otherwise.
Afte a quick challenge on foot (1000 runners in black t-shirts running around central London, bemusing tourists), we cycled to the isle of dogs where we hopped off our bikes to do a spot of orienteering followed by a cold 20m swim in the Thames (in all our race gear - which was lovely as it helped cool us down as we were already working up quite a sweat).
It was then back on our bikes to cycle (whilst getting slightly confused with the directions) to our next water experience kayaking by the Excel centre. From there we cycled to Arsenal and arond the stadium and onwards to Stoke Newington where we had to travese a climbing wall.
From Stoke Newington it was a hop and a skip to Lord's and the highlight of the day - abseiling down the side of the cricket ground (last year it was the Oval - so if you are a cricket fan this is the race to do).
If that wasn't enought it was on to Mile End for a little spot of circuit training in the park before heading off to Kennington and the Imperial War Museum where I got to clamber over one of the cannons!
Luckily for us that was the last stop of the day before we cycled off to the finish line crossing it 8hrs and 1 second after we started! It was a fanatastic day, and I would recommend it to anyone. For more of their crazy events check out http://www.ratrace.com/events.aspx
Friday, August 12, 2011
London City Orienteering 2011
If you fancy a bit of brain use and variety to your running..... direct your attention to www.cityrace.org for this years City of London Orienteering Race on Saturday 10th September. This is navigation while running through the streets, alleys and estates of central London.
At your alloted start time you collect your detailed map (1cm represents 50m) and navigate to each of the 20 or so checkpoints shown as fast as possible and back to the finish - taking whichever route you think will be fastest/easiest. A range of courses are on offer for different abilities, including Mens Open approx 8.7km, Womens Open 7km, Newcomers 4km - although dependant on your navigation skills that could be significantly more!
The mapper has written about the race area on his blog at http://blog.oobrien.com/2011/05/12/city-of-london-race-2011-preview/
If you're interested give me a shout on Tuesday or Thursday and I'll give you a few pointers!
Martin
At your alloted start time you collect your detailed map (1cm represents 50m) and navigate to each of the 20 or so checkpoints shown as fast as possible and back to the finish - taking whichever route you think will be fastest/easiest. A range of courses are on offer for different abilities, including Mens Open approx 8.7km, Womens Open 7km, Newcomers 4km - although dependant on your navigation skills that could be significantly more!
The mapper has written about the race area on his blog at http://blog.oobrien.com/2011/05/12/city-of-london-race-2011-preview/
If you're interested give me a shout on Tuesday or Thursday and I'll give you a few pointers!
Martin
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Injury and training research request
Dear Runners
I am currently studying for a MSc in Advanced Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, from Teesside University. To fulfill part of my course I am conducting research into “The Relationship Mental Toughness has with Coping with Injury and Rehabilitation Adherence in Runners” the study aims to look at any gender, age group and participation level differences.
I am looking for runners over 18 years old and any experience level, distance/terrain etc. the runner needs to have sustained an injury, which led them to miss training or competition for at least 3 days. I would be extremely grateful if you could forward this on to any of your members, also if you were able to post the link on your website/any social networking pages (i.e. Facebook). https://www.surveymonkey.com/
The survey will take approx. 10-15mins to complete, if you have any further questions about this research or would like to see the results when it is completed, please do not hesitate to contact me on d4071185@tees.ac.uk Thanks in advance for your time, I am extremely grateful for any help you can give me. Pamela Andrews
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