Hey folks.. Just wanted to let you know that I’ve officially now entered the BUPA Great South Run on behalf of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. A running event that’s held in Portsmouth, UK in October where you can choose to do either the 5 or 10 mile race. I have decided to do the whole 10 mile hog. I don’t do things by halfs.
So yeah, I’m very happy to of entered for the Trust. Have always wanted to do something for them in the 4 or 5 years I’ve known them and seeing that i’ve been running since July 2011, it seemed to fit in perfectly as a good goal to achieve for 2012 and all the more, I’ve left myself plenty of time to train up.
It’s a long time untill the event, but I feel I the length of time is needed as I have allot of things I need to overcome first. So while I’ve already been doing a lot of running prior to this decision, this weekend I did my first road run (usually run a long quiet cycle path) and covered roughly 10.6 miles within 20hrs. 5.3 miles each day. The aim now is to increase the Saturday run by roughly a mile every other weekend. It’ll be tricky because I’ll have my son along with me some weekends and he only has little legs but I’m hoping to get to the 10 mile barrier within a few months so that by October, I should find it fairly easy to cover the 10 miles. (that’s what he says now!)
Not allot to say other than that. I have a Donation page already up, if you would like to support me and the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.
Some may say I’m a bit crazy. They might be right. But i like to take part in what is, a great cause.
