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Barney Davies vs Edinburgh Marathon
Page creator: Barney Davies
Event: Edinburgh Marathon 2008
Event Date: 25th May 2008
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Howdy!

As some of you may know, I'm attempting to run the Edinburgh Marathon on Sunday the 25th of May. Yikes. 

What seemed like a good idea when slightly drunk a few months ago is now less than one month away. Crumbs. Either way, it's too late to drop out now. 

The training has been physically and mentally demanding to say the least. It's nobbled my butter legs and the less said about the state of my toes the better! However, I'm determined to do it. Testament to my dedication, I will have been 100% alcohol-free for five weeks before the big day. Just so long as I'm not overtaken by Jimmy Savile on the way round...

I'm also running it for a very good cause. As some of you may know, my Mum was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and is currently having treatment. As such I will be running to raise money for Breakthrough breast cancer. It's pretty hard to find anyone who hasn't been personally affected by breast cancer in one way or another and any money you could give would be fantastic. For more details on Breakthrough and the excellent work they do please go to http://www.breakthrough.org.uk/

I am enormously grateful for anything you can afford to donate. This should be pretty easy through Just Giving. It's also safe from electronic vagabonds and Breakthrough will receive your money straight away. A minor bonus of being a UK taxpayer is that an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

Many thanks in advance for your support, I really appreciate it.

Barney
Display Name Date Amount Tax Bonus  Comment
Sandra Leach 01/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well done - looking forward to meeting you ! 
Michelle and Moz 01/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Soz it's so late, well done mate 
Steve G 31/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Cash might improve my chances of you keeping our date... 
Gez 29/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 There was no way I was donating until I'd seen the evidence. Top job dude, well done! 
Joel 29/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Sorry its late! Well done me old tea pot! 
karen shaw 28/05/2008 £15.00 £4.23 well done in raising so much money for a great cause 
Hannah Doyle 28/05/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Nice one Barney!!! 
Chris Frayne 28/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Nice going fella.......respect you for going the distance 
Mum 27/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Just had to reach the total! So proud of you, Barn, well done! 
Mark and Jane 26/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Hope it went well - sorry we didn't manage to sponsor you before you actually ran the thing... 
Murphy 25/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 So did you survive?! 
Sadie Webb (Gill's Gran) 25/05/2008 £10.00 n/a Good luck Barney 
Pete Leek 24/05/2008 £20.00 n/a Good luck :-) 
Fiona (tookiemonster) 23/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good Luck Barney 
Gill 22/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Go for it Barney & good luck! 
Russ Davies 22/05/2008 £50.00 £14.10 Will be thinking of you Sunday, v. best of luck with feet, legs and mind. just think of those pints of Deuchars afterwards! 
Mike Hutchings 20/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well done Barney! - I'm (almost) sure it won't be quite as tough as you make it sound! 
Vivien Cheung 19/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Best of Luck, GO! 
Charles Canham 19/05/2008 £15.00 n/a It's been great working with you... 
Rich Hughes 19/05/2008 £20.00 n/a Best of Luck Barn, but why not give the East Anglia marathon a go first, eh? 
Cheryl Davies 19/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Go for it! Proud of you! 
Dan MacLean 17/05/2008 £26.22 £7.40 Pound per mile. This would be more expensive if you were a cabby!  
Ailsa and Jim 17/05/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Good luck, we'll bring some nappies just in case you do a Paula Radcliffe 
Paul Davies 16/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good luck with the race and the target. Keep taking the porridge 
Ed Turner 15/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 there's still space on the Karrimor in October as well... 
Jin Alfoldi 14/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Did you kill a man? 
The Throwers 13/05/2008 £30.00 £8.46 ...and an extra tenner if you do it in fancy dress 
Imogen White 13/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 good luck Barney 
Jack Rhodes 12/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 GOOD LUCK 
Jenny Francis 12/05/2008 £20.00 n/a I'm not sure which is more impresive...running a marathon or going five weeks without a bevy. We'll have a drink state-side in your honor! Good luck! 
Maire Davies 12/05/2008 £30.00 £8.46 I would have run with you, if you had only asked.... 
Lois 12/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good Luck! All marathon runners are nutters you do know that don't you? Hill go down as well as up so ignore Benjamin Davies - he he!  
Physiol Ecology Group at Cambs 12/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 About time you got off your arse.....  
James Kenney 12/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Good Luck Barney! Gill - not long to go now! Which of you is finding it the toughest? 
Caroline and Andy 12/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 What a brilliant thing to do - go for it! X 
Paddy 11/05/2008 £10.00 n/a Good luck - in the spirit of reciprocity, I expect payment @ 40p/m for every mile you don't complete! 
Rachel & Ricky 11/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Well worth it to see Gill trying to stay off the drink! Good luck... 
Helen Sanderson 09/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Good luck 
Alison Barker 09/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Good luck 
Benjamin Davies 09/05/2008 £50.00 £14.10 Barney, you are aware Edinburgh is built on a hill! 
Lindsay 07/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Good luck- but don't make disappearing over the horizon too much of a habit. 
Jenny G 07/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Hope you don't get any blisters on your barnacles! 
Charlie 07/05/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Good on ya!  
Gemma 06/05/2008 £15.00 £4.23 Cor blimey Barney! Try to steer clear of the deep fried mars bars on the way round! Good luck! 
Ceri and Chris 06/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Hope it all goes well on the day Barney - good luck with the training and with the race 
Sarah and John Constable 06/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64  
Vicki 05/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 "Baby I was born to run" as the Boss says. Go for it, Barns!  
Nige 03/05/2008 £26.00 £7.33 oh, he crazy  
Wendy Arntsen 02/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 For yours and Gill's challeges. Good luck Barney! 
Joseph 02/05/2008 £25.00 £7.05 Give those butter legs a pounding! Hope it goes well, and good luck with the rest of the training. 
Sue Cliffe (JAPPL) 02/05/2008 £15.00 £4.23 Hi Barney, excellent - what a dark horse! And why Edinburgh? Just a random idea or......? 
Arjun 02/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well done Barney. I'm glad you are doing this instead of Nige - he would have tripped over a kerb and broke his ankle! 
Mum and Jim 02/05/2008 £35.00 £9.87 Thank you, Barn, for every woman who's had treatment and for every woman who will. 
Liz 02/05/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Wow! Best of luck! You know how impressed I am. Will be thinking of you on the day. 
micehell racey 01/05/2008 £5.00 £1.41 my earlier comment did not mean you've got to laugh at cancer. I feel like alan partridge  
Nik Moran 01/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 you've certainly come a long way from those Jebus Green pre-swim runs... Do it, Barns!!! 
micehell racey 01/05/2008 £20.00 £5.64 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, crumbs I feel bad but you've got to see the funny side eh? ha ha ha GD LK!! 
Cain 01/05/2008 £15.00 £4.23 Try not to pass out at the end this time. Good Luck. 
C Furlong 01/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good Luck 
Dominic 01/05/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Run Forest Run. 
Fran Edwards 01/05/2008 £26.20 £7.39 I'll double it if Gill survives without a drink right up to when you cross the finish line! 
karen devine 01/05/2008 £10.00 £2.82 good luck 
Richard English 01/05/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Vaseline - check! Nipple protectors - check! Shaky legs - check! Enjoy the race, sir! 
megacitymatt 01/05/2008 £26.00 £7.33 peg it barn! 
Jennie 01/05/2008 £20.00 n/a Good luck!  
The Webb's in Kent 01/05/2008 £26.20 £7.39 Good luck, the 0.2 is the hard part. 
Shona Smith 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good luck!  
The Webbs in Cornwall 30/04/2008 £40.00 £11.28 great challange, great cause, best of luck! 
Emma Kapitan 30/04/2008 £15.00 £4.23 maybe i could enter as well and then ring you up the night before to cancel because 'i 'm a drunk xx 
OllyF 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good luck! Don't metabolise anything too important... 
Fran 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 and a pint next time you're in Cambridge! 
Abby 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Brave or mad, not sure which... Seriously, best of luck - a great cause. 
Polly 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Go Gill, go! Your challenge is much harder than Barney's mere marathon! 
Kate T 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Go Barney Go! Hope Edinburgh is MUCH flatter than I remember it being... 
Sammy Harrington 30/04/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Best of luck Barney. It'll be hellish. Five weeks without a pint! Madness...... 
Alex 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Well done for taking the plunge old chap. Loving the buffed out jogging pic, did you have to hold that pose for long?  
Gill Webb 30/04/2008 £40.00 £11.28 I'll be the hooligan screaming from the side-lines. GOOD LUCK BUTTER LEGS! I'll be as relieved as you when the alcohol ban is over. xx  
wrighty 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82  
Ruth E 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Aren't there some hills in Edinburgh? Really impressed Barney - good luck xxx 
Ellie Dusic 30/04/2008 £10.00 n/a Good luck 
A Wells 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 G'wan the Davies. 
John Brod 30/04/2008 £5.00 n/a Do it in costume Barney! What about Heather Mills? 
Jenny and the tame orangutan 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Good luck Mears, I assume you'll be manufactuing your own shoes out of deer skin? 
Leah 30/04/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Run Butterlegs Run! 
Dan 30/04/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Give it one from me yeah? 
Laura Raven 30/04/2008 £5.00 £1.41 Hope it goes well and your toes survive to see another day L x 
benet 30/04/2008 £5.00 £1.41 allez narbles 
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