<p>&nbsp;</p> <h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font: normal normal normal 17px/24px Georgia, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Two marathons in two cities a week apart, two tired legs.</strong></h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong><em>News</em></strong></span></p> <p><a title="Paris Marathon" href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/post/4531105045/paris-marathon-2011-a-french-farce" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">Update: Read my Paris marathon report here, one down, one to go.</span></a></p> <p><span style="color: #808080;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #808080;">Keep track of the latest updates from my training blog at <a title="Blog" href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/">http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/</a> and see how progress is going!</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"><strong>Who?<br /></strong></span>First of all thank you in advance if I've asked and you have sponsored me before</strong>, it's a challenging time to be donating money at the moment and I appreciate whatever you can give. If you can't quite make a donation at the moment then please consider helping out with a <a title="Guest blogging form" href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/submit">guest post on the blog</a>, lending an hour of your time to some of my <a href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/events/">fund-raising events</a> or just spreading&nbsp;the word. To encourage you to donate my employer has generously offered to provide <strong>free technical services</strong> to those who personally donate more than &pound;100, <a href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/events">find out about this here</a>. If you've arrived at this page and don't know me then find out a bit more below.</p> <h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font: normal normal normal 17px/24px Georgia, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><br /><strong>What?</strong><br />My first foray back into running began in&nbsp;<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #111111; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #8c8c8c; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" title="10k London 2008" href="http://www.justgiving.com/haydn2008">2008 with a 10k,</a>&nbsp;progressing to my&nbsp;<a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #111111; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #8c8c8c; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" title="Paris Marathon 2010" href="http://www.justgiving.com/haydn2010">first marathon in Paris 2010</a>. Both times I managed to raise quite a bit of money for charity. Now with partner in crime Jack I will be attempting the challenge of the <strong>Paris and then the London Marathon on 10th and 17th of April 2011, a double marathon you say?!</strong></h4> <h4 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font: normal normal normal 17px/24px Georgia, serif; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Why?</strong></h4> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">My&nbsp;fund-raising&nbsp;has been driven by personal losses of loved ones variously to dementia and cancer but it is also driven by a wider desire to help those&nbsp;vulnerable members of our society who do not benefit from the kind of support and generosity that I receive in life. This is why I am running for the <a style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: #111111; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #8c8c8c; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" title="RHN" href="http://www.rhn.org.uk/">Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability</a>&nbsp;who do amazing work with people affected by neurological diseases or damage to the brain. The people in care homes, hospitals and specialist organisations up and down the country are too easily forgotten and hopefully this running folly will help that situation a tiny bit.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Please check out the <a title="Blog" href="http://runpaydayrun.tumblr.com/">blog</a>, <a href="mailto:runpaydayrun@gmail.com">get in contact</a> and donate whatever you can.</p> <p>Thank you,</p> <p>Haydn</p> <p>x</p> <p>--</p> <p>Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving &ndash; they&rsquo;ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they&rsquo;ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it&rsquo;s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</p> <p><strong>So please hit donate now!</strong></p>