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 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, huge fundraising success! This is for a Cartoon town PB (want a refund if you don’t get under that publicised target time of 1hr50 mind...)

Donation by sarah hayton on 22/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Dan, you truly are an inspiration! The support you have shown your wife, friends and family is AMAZING! Well done, Love Sara

Donation by Sara Davison on 22/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Good luck next weekend Dan. Hope to see you afterwards if I make it back from Pakistan. Great work with all the fundraising whatever happens.

Donation by Chris Bold on 21/03/12

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Go Dan! Good luck this weekend with the big push!

Donation by Simon Brooks on 19/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Nice one Dan!

Donation by Stuart Riding on 19/03/12

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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Good on you Dan! You are a star!

Donation by Kim, Gary & Girls X on 14/03/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Not far to go now Dan. That's what I call determination. Congratulations on stopping at nothing! Will be thinking of you on the 25th

Donation by Ross and Marcelo Barba on 13/03/12

£10.00

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Well done mate!! You should be very proud of yourself!

Donation by Anonymous on 11/03/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Good on you Dan

Donation by Anonymous on 11/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation by Joanne Buckingham on 10/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan!

Donation by Juliet Godfrey on 10/03/12

£5.00

+ £1.25 Gift Aid

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Amazing Dan, well done! I will be thinking of you on the 25th! x

Donation by Rebecca Evans on 09/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan, how many km do you get from a pair of shoes?

Donation by Mike Barrett on 09/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done Dan, a marvelous achievement! x

Donation by Natalie Milsted on 09/03/12

£25.00

+ £6.25 Gift Aid

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On the home straight now! Congratulations on an inspirational achievement!!

Donation by Ben & Lucy on 09/03/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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Good work Dan excellent achievment

Donation by matthew kempton on 09/03/12

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Well done Dan, what a fabulous achievment, I take my hat off to you!! See you on the 25th XX

Donation by Karen Lumpkin on 08/03/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

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Well done fella a brilliant effort. See you on the 25th!

Donation by Steve Meredith on 08/03/12

£50.00

+ £12.50 Gift Aid

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All the best Dan!!

Donation by Craig Thornhill on 08/03/12

£51.00

+ £12.75 Gift Aid

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Run Forrest! Well done on what you have achieved so far. Ash & Ash x

Donation by Ashley Reynolds-Dunn on 08/03/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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Read about your fundraising in Vita magazine and wanted to contribute. Good luck - hope you reach your target.

Donation by Rachel Davies on 01/03/12

£20.00

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Well done mate. It's so easy to say you will do these things and then not. You have talked the talk, walked the walk and now run the run! Brilliant.

Donation by Paul Ashton-Bridges on 29/02/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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1,100 pennies for your new 1,100 kilometre target :-)

Donation by Tamsyn xxx on 20/02/12

£11.00

+ £2.75 Gift Aid

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Another instalment to keep the totals moving in the right direction, well done, nearly there!

Donation by Ken & Lyn Wymer on 31/01/12

£20.00

+ £5.00 Gift Aid

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A payday nudge towards £1000! Keep up the excellent work.

Donation by Cassie (@knittingpenguin) on 25/01/12

£10.00

+ £2.50 Gift Aid

Donation summary

  • * Online donations£1,605.01
  • Offline donations£430.00
  • Text donations£0.00
  • Total raised£2,035.01
  • Gift Aid£351.25

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