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Dear All,

Many many thanks for your support and more importantly your money! Nearly there!

In under 4 weeks time I will (hopefully) be running the New York Marathon, before settling into well earned retirement from any form of exercise... ever again.

You can see from the list below if you have already sponsored me or not.

If you have promised money via a CAF cheque or one of those tedious 'performance related' arrangements where I have to actually complete the events in the times promised - well I have tried to capture those in the attached file. To be honest I have lost track a bit through the year of who has paid what.. so I will leave it up to your consciences. . . and of course if you feel the need to sponsor me again.. well that would be jolly well appreciated.

James

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17th JUNE 2008

Dear All,

Having completed the Caledonian Challenge on Saturday, I am now 2/3rds of the way through (or 80.2 out of 106.4 miles...) my year of ridiculous endurance events.

I can easily say that of the three, I will never do the Caledonian challenge again. We started at 8AM Saturday morning and finished (with 4 brief stops to refuel along the way) 15 hours and 10 minutes later - having run, walked or jogged the 54 miles between Fort William and Loch Lomond.

In that time I ate 12 mars bars and 4 tuna sandwiches and swallowed approx. 10 litres of water, 6 cans of redbull and about 150 midges. Whilst viewing some of the most stunning scenery in the UK, I also managed to achieve unheralded levels of self pity and misery along the way... Do not ever let yourself be talked into doing this event....

Anyway, the link below is to prove I did it!!

http://siera.sportident.co.uk/caledonianchallenge/competitor.php?id=267E

Those of you who have sponsored me so far - thanks for your support. If you haven't yet, the link is below, and anything you can spare would be gratefully received!!

Many thanks

James

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17th APRIL 2008

Just to let you all know, I made it through the rain and pain last Sunday in 3 hours and 33 minutes.. so well ahead of my hoped for time of 3.50 or so..

The only damage is my toes which look like they might go the way of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' feet, and the time it took me to overtake a man wearing a Borat swimming costume - which has left me deeply mentally scarred. That apart it was a (mostly) enjoyable day.

Many thanks again for your support,

James

P.s. 8 weeks to stage 2 and the Caledonian Challenge...

Marathon 'split' times for truly tragic....

5 km	0:24:24
10 km	0:48:32
15 km	1:12:19
20 km	1:36:57
half	1:42:10
25 km	2:01:08
30 km	2:26:05
35 km	2:52:09
40 km	3:20:45
finish	3:33:44

TOTAL
Position (overall)	5304
Position (gender)	4770
Position (age group)	973
Finish time	3:33:44

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9th APRIL 2008

Well we are 4 days away now and the forecast is for "heavy showers", but on the up side...

I am injury free - achieved chiefly through not having the time to do any real training.

I am at a decent 'running weight' - mainly acheived through a bout of food poisoning last week.

So, thank you to all of you who have sponsored me so far, but just in case you had forgotten or haven't quite got around to it yet, here's the link again.

www.justgiving.com/jamescardew

Many many thanks again,

James

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WHAT WAS I THINKING OF?!?!?!

In a moment of weakness I have somehow managed to sign up to run the 2008 London Marathon for the charity Sense.

However, as I ran the 2006 London Marathon, I figured that in order to encourage you to part with your hard-earned dosh and sponsor me again, I need to to do something a bit more challenging. So I decided to do 2 marathons... and a 54 mile run up and down the Scottish Highlands as well.

So here you go... I'll be doing..

13th April - 2008 London Marathon

13-14th June - Caledonian Challenge

2nd November - 2008 New York Marathon

The plan is to try to do the two marathons in under 4 hours each (last time I did 4.04) and survive the Caledonian 'Challenge' (or staying out all saturday night in Scotland withought being head-butted) and complete the course in under 15 hours.

Surely all that pain has got to be worth a total target of £5k!! I am running both marathons for Sense who do lots of worthy work with deafblind people and their families (see details left) ..So please sponsor me now!

Many thanks for your support.

James

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