running for change

Welcome (a bit about what we are doing and why…)

Posted by Helen on Jun 14, 2008 under donations | No Comment

So there I was, sat on the sofa at my mum’s house last September/October minding my own business (first time for everything ), when my big sister (Gillian) said that she was wanting to run the Great North Run (a half-marathon) to raise money for Leukaemia Research - she’d already run a 10k earlier in the year to raise money for them as mum has CLL (a form of leukaemia) - when for some unknown reason I said “I’ll do it with you!”.
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just in case anyone’s still reading this……

Posted by Helen on Apr 27, 2009 under running | No Comment

We are still alive

Since October we’ve both had some good running, and rather a few too many niggles and injuries. However, we managed to both get it together for a 10k race last week (Darent Valley 10k). Unfortunately as a result of something (maybe it was the water ‘down south’ that did it, maybe just watching the London marathon yesterday, or maybe a big knock to the head) it now appears I’m doing a marathon in 6 months time…. - one of these days I really will learn some self-control as due to getting rather frustrated with the London marathon registration system for the ballot for next years race, I ended up entering the Snowdonia marathon this October. (I actually entered myself 4 times, but that’s another story altogether!)

Looks like I need to get back into training…..

(Oh and for anyone who stil has the faintest hope that there is some small part of my brain that is still sane, I’m doing a triathlon in 8 weeks time, a very short one, but a triathlon all the same)

Final Total

Posted by runningforchange on Oct 22, 2008 under Uncategorized | No Comment

Gillian and I have now gone through all the donations and chased up most of the money. The (pretty much) finalized total is now on the right, slightly lower than before as a few donations had been duplicated in the process of updating the total along the way!