My story

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26 March 2012 - I am pleased to say that I have completed 1,101km in the last 12 months and achieved a massive personal best time of under 49 minutes for a 10k race yesterday.  Even more brilliant is that I have gone through the £1,500 fundraising mark.

There are a few people still wanting to sponsor me so I'll wrap up the grand total in one month's time!

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26 February 2012 - As I complete my eleventh month of running I've reached a million metres, or 1,000km.  I'm now pushing to reach 1,100km by the end of the challenge on March 25th at the Carterton 10k.  Please give generously to help me achieve the revised fundraising target of £1,100.

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11 December 2011 - this morning I completed my 800th kilometre and raised my 813th pound - that's 3 months & 16 days ahead of schedule, so now my sights move to £1000 and 1000km, or as I like to refer to it: one million metres!

Remember - every pound I raise will be doubled by my company!

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My company, the Stewart Milne Group, has selected Maggie's Cancer Centres as their charity of the year and, as a charity close to my heart, I have set myself a personal challenge to help with the fundraising.

 

I have run on and off for a few years having completed the Great North Run and some 10k races but never really kept going in between so I have set myself the goal of covering 800km in a year - the distance between Maggie's Oxford (my local centre) and Maggie's Aberdeen (the centre local to my company's head office) - via road races, training and the treadmill.

 

My initial target is to raise £800 - £1 for every kilometre of the journey. And as part of our company fundraising every pound I raise will be doubled by Stewart Milne, so please be as generous as you can.

 

Any donation you can make is gratefully received and appreciated by myself and Maggie's.

 

I'll drop updates here but for more regular updates please follow me on twitter: @running_dan_w or check out my blog here

 

13 June 2011 - I have now covered 25% of my challenge distance: 201 of the 800km!

 

01 June 2011 - found another way to motivate me to cover the distance: Juneathon, a challenge to run (or exercise) every day in June

 

27 May 2011 - 133/800km covered

 

19 May 2011 - with the help of 3 long runs in Central Park whilst on holiday (I have a very understanding wife!) I've reached 110/800km (that means I'd just be leaving the M42 to join the M6 at Birmingham)

 

27 April 2011 - 53/800km covered (that would put me just north of Banbury on the M40!)

 

27 March 2011 - the challenge begins with the Carterton 10k

 

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My Teams

My company

Stewart Milne
Stewart Milne

My charity

Maggie's Centres

Maggie's Centres

Charity Registration No. SC024414

People with cancer need places like these. Located in the grounds of major NHS cancer hospitals, Maggie's Centres are places that can give the extra emotional, practical and social support that people with cancer need. Please visit www.maggiescentres.org for more information.

Donations 78

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Well done Dan, please find my payment of previous promise. Better late than never eh? Alex

Donation by alex goodfellow on 07/08/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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Thanks to Alan Shatford for his kind donation, posting on his behalf.

Donation by Alan Shatford on 16/07/12

£20.00

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Thanks to Paul Maycock for his tenner, posting on his behalf.

Donation by From Paul Maycock on 16/07/12

£10.00

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Here's £10 that escaped the big pay-in to the bank!

Donation by Dan Wymer on 16/07/12

£10.00

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There you go Dan, that should take you over the £2000 mark!

Donation by Maggie Scullion on 28/06/12

£45.00

+ £11.25 Gift Aid

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Donation by Tamsin Buchanan on 27/06/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

Donation by Paul Smollett on 21/06/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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W00t w00t running!

Donation by Peter Hark on 18/05/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

Donation by Carolanne Dieleman on 03/05/12

£30.00

+ £7.50 Gift Aid

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well done Dan - excellent running!!

Donation by @JimmyMT on 19/04/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Remember: Run like you stole something...

Donation by @mel_bucks on 18/04/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Congratulations on your achievements. Best wishes Paul Harwood

Donation by Karen Harwood on 12/04/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Superb effort Dan, Well Done!

Donation by Philip Reid on 11/04/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan. Best wishes Rita and Dave x

Donation by Anonymous on 10/04/12

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Great work Dan. Bet you're knackered now ;-) All the best from both of us X

Donation by Alice & Simon Webster on 02/04/12

£30.00

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What a man, whata man, what a mighty good maaaaann! Well done mate. Sorry we couldn't make it on Sunday. Hope to see you soon xxx

Donation by Hayley Wright on 28/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Well done for all you've done for Maggies! Was great to see you and the other runners at the finish line and join in the celebrations afterwards!

Donation by Suzy Imeson on 26/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Brilliant end to your amazing year of fundraising! So pleased to witness the sprint finish to get your PB. Great day for all family and friends.

Donation by The Wife's Mum and Dad on 26/03/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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Huge well done Dan on your amazing achievement. So glad we were with you to see you smash the 50min PB. Big love the Sills xx

Donation by Gem & Rich Sills on 26/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan. That is a fantastic achievement. What will you do next????!!

Donation by Elizabeth Reynolds on 26/03/12

£11.01

+ £2.75 Gift Aid

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Congratulations Dan...

Donation by Alison Scott on 26/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Dan Fantastic achievement....very well done.

Donation by Gary Milne, SMHCS on 26/03/12

£35.00

+ £8.75 Gift Aid

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Very well done Dan!! For such a worthy cause. And congrats on your pb! Love Steve, Karen and Abi x

Donation by Anonymous on 25/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done on all the hard work for a great cause, you (& your wife) are amazing. We are looking forward to watching you complete the last lap! xx

Donation by Kate, Mark, Niamh, Sebastian Sutton on 24/03/12

£30.00

+ £7.50 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan. You are inspirational!

Donation by Eric & Lyn on 23/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations$2,447.13
  • Offline donations$655.61
  • Text donations$0.00
  • Total raised$3,102.74
  • Gift Aid$535.55

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