John and Sarah's Marathon Fundraising
Event: Flora London Marathon 2006 on 23/04/2006
Team Members: John Earl, Sarah Taylor
£1,419.00 raised of £1,200.00 target
38 donations
My Target:
£1,200.00
£1,419.00 raised so far
How to make a donation
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My story
Welcome to our fundraising page for the Flora London Marathon. Neither of us has run a marathon before so this is something of an adventure. We started running regularly in mid-July when both of us were feeling a bit unfit.
We've just run the London Marathon!!! John got 3:13:37 and Sarah got 4:03:35. We were both about 3 1/2 minutes off our targets but are very pleased to have achieved such good times in our first marathon. We'll be sending you an email with some more details later on...
Update 14/02/06 - John injured his achilles during a 20-miler 9 days ago but together with rest and daily strength exercises is getting going again with a couple very short runs so far this week. Sarah fought in the Oxford-Cambridge Taekwondo Varsity Match on Sunday in Oxford and beat an Oxford black belt (though sadly Oxford won overall) -- so now has more time for running training!
Update 13/03/06 - Sold cakes and brownies (mmmm) at cycling cuppers over the weekend, netting a bit more cash. John is back running now (though lower mileage than before), and Sarah fought in BSTF nationals yesterday so she's back running too... but with Silverstone coming up in a week we may be in for a shock!
Update 19/03/06 - We ran Silverstone half marathon today (13.1 miles). Sarah finished in 1:57:18 (averaging 8:57 per mile). John finished in 1:29:49 (averaging 6:51 per mile). It was very windy and the headwind was nasty but we were both happy with our results given the inconsistency of training over the last month or so!
Update 27/03/06 - This week we've each done over 40 miles, so things are pretty much back on track. Sarah ran 22 miles on Saturday and I ran the 18 miles to Ely on Sunday, so we're both doing longer ones again as well!
Update 9/04/06 - Ran the Reading Half today, and it went quite well! Sarah ran 1:48 (9 minutes faster than 3 weeks ago) and John finished in 1:26 (3 minutes' improvement). It's amazing clocking those splits, so much faster than you ever do in training!
This is definitely value for sponsorship money. You just have to sponsor us for this one race, and we'll run the Silverstone Half Marathon (19 March), the Reading Half Marathon (9 April), the London Marathon (23 April) and the Edinburgh Marathon (11 June). For some reason we thought this was a good idea. We are fundraising together and train together when our training plans permit and Sarah's not too busy at Taekwondo kicking ass.
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Thanks for your support!
John and Sarah
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Donations 38
Donation by Anonymous on 26/04/06
£25.00
+ £7.05 Gift Aid
Well done! Very impressed with your London times, and looking forward to running Edinburgh together!
Donation by Becca Downing on 24/04/06
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Oops...almost forgot.... Good luck and see you in Edinburgh....
Donation by bron and graham on 20/04/06
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Good luck to you both!
Donation by Amelia on 17/04/06
£10.00
All the best, you two crazy fit people!
Donation by Matt on 12/04/06
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Your blisters clearly aren't as impressive as Blackburn's. Maybe you're not running fast enough...
Donation by Rich Dewire on 07/04/06
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good luck
Donation by Steve G on 01/04/06
£5.00
+ £1.41 Gift Aid
Go John and Sarah! You guys are AWESOME! ;)
Donation by Emily Murphy on 29/03/06
£20.00
"So long and thanks for all the cakes"
Donation by Mark Holt on 26/03/06
£10.00
Good luck!
Donation by Anne on 23/03/06
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
good luck sarah =)
Donation by Ying on 22/03/06
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Best of luck to you both! I'll be on the sidelines and wiill keep an eye out for you!
Donation by Aly Pitts on 14/03/06
£20.00
Donation by Andy on 13/03/06
£30.00
+ £8.46 Gift Aid
Donation by Dan on 12/03/06
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Donation by Peter Leek on 12/03/06
£10.00
Donation by Ira & Tami Kaufman on 02/03/06
£25.00
This is on behalf of Elsie Kaufman
Donation by I kaufman on 26/02/06
£100.00
Take plenty of water along
Donation by Grandpa Earl on 24/02/06
£50.00
Donation by RUSS BUTTERWORTH on 11/02/06
£25.00
+ £7.05 Gift Aid
Good luck!
Donation by Claire Postlethwaite on 10/02/06
£15.00
Enjoy!
Donation by John Were on 09/02/06
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Good Luck Sarah!
Donation by Matt Bourne on 08/02/06
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Best of luck! Sounds tiring...
Donation by Tzo Tze on 07/02/06
£100.00
+ £28.21 Gift Aid
Good luck guys!
Donation by Tom Morley on 06/02/06
£10.00
Miss Gibbs would be proud!!
Donation by Helen Pascoe on 06/02/06
£5.00
+ £1.41 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations£996.40
- Offline donations£422.60
- Text donations£0.00
- Total raised£1,419.00
- Gift Aid£126.64
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