Bristol Half Marathon complete!! 1 hour 41 mins 4 secs

Thanks to everyone who has sponsored so far!

Updated on Aug 31st 2010 at 4:12 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app

I will be running the Bristol half marathon on Sunday 5th September. Wish me luck!

Updated on Apr 25th 2010 at 09:00 AM using the JustGiving iPhone app

Unfortuantely I was unable to race today due to my ankle injury - I will be doing the next Half Marathon I physically can!

Updated on Apr 20th 2010 at 11:31 PM using the JustGiving iPhone app

Been to the minor injuries unit - nothing broken, just pretty bad ligament damage. Anyone got any morphine for race day??

Updated on Apr 19th 2010 at 11:57 AM using the JustGiving iPhone app

*** Major update! - wrecked my ankle at footy on saturday - resting it but it's not looking good! Fingers crossed please people! ***

********** Thanks to everyone who's donated so far to reach my £200 target!. I had no idea you'd reach it so quickly so as added incentive I've upped my target to £400 now ;-) Thanks again to everyone **********

 

Having never run in any sort of race before I thought a nice easy 13 miles round sunny, flat Sheffield might be a good start - yeah right!

 

'Why?' I hear you ask, well...

In August last year my girlfriend (Hel Reynolds) lost her dad (Peter) to leukaemia.

Peter lived with myelodysplastic syndrome (known as 'pre-leukaemia') for 6 years before it developed into full leukaemia. Having being diagnosed with leukaemia in May and given 6 months to live, he passed away in August.

So I'm raising money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research to help the charity stop blood cancers from affecting more families.

 

About the charity...

Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research is the only UK charity solely dedicated to research into blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

- Anyone, at any age, can be diagnosed with a blood cancer

- Blood cancers are the main cause of cancer death in under 35s

- 24,500 people are diagnosed with a cancer of the blood every year in the uk

- Leukaemia is the most common form of cancer in children in the UK

Survival rates are increasing, treatments are improving but they spend more than £20,000,000 on research every year.

 

It's for a really worthwhile cause, so please dig deep and donate now.

I'll try to keep this updated with how my training is going and what sort of time I'm looking at running it in.

 

Many Thanks

Andy

 

Total donated offline - £30

 

Running blog type thing....

Sunday 1st March

New trainers - now its serious...

Sunday 7th March

Injured my foot - doc's on Tuesday - stupid new trainers....

Tuesday 9th March

Doc's say "No running for at least 10 days" :-(

Sunday 21st March

First run back after injury, foot feels ok...

Tuesday 23rd March

Nice easy 3 miles, foot still not hurting...

Thursday 25th March

Steady 4 miles, foot still fine! Time to step it back up...

Sunday 28th March

10.8 hilly miles complete and not an achy foot in sight! Woohoo! - 1hr 30mins

Friday 2nd April

12.1 hilly miles under the belt. Getting close to the distance now. Anyone spotting a theme to these runs..... - 1hr 40mins

 

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