Christmas

The term has ended and Christmas is upon us, quite quickly it seems too!  Doesn't seem long ago that I was enjoying the summer sun and revelling in the idea of going back to uni for the last year.

And this also means that the run is getting ever closer and now that I have completed my refereeing fitness test, with a very pleasing result, I need to start training big time.  The plan, is still slightly unknown but a lot of running for lots of time will need to be done.  I think a good way to kick off the start of training is a good cross country run with my Dad and his work colleagues on their Christmas run outing this coming Wednesday!

Christmas will be a tough period to juggle family, friends, running and of course the dirty R word of revision but it can be done with some determination and probably a lot of Red Bull (or stimulant drink of choice).

I can also use this time away from the pressures of uni life to gather a few ideas for fund raising and put them into action in the new year so be sure to look out for bake sales, pub quizzes and lots of other inventive (hopefully) ideas to help me along my way to achieving a good amount of the Alzheimer's charity.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year and I'm sure you will see me jogging around at some point!

Robbie

Official

Well it's official, I am running for the Alzheimer's charity, which means I'm going to have to do it.  The starting date is chosen as Monday 21st May 2012 so put that in your diaries!
I will be doing the majority of my fund raising in the new year once my exams are out of the way so watch this space for bake sales, pub quizzes and lots of other exciting things I can think of!


Other ideas I have had will be that you can keep a track of where I am through mobile apps like Foursquare and the like so those who like to know I'm doing it properly can check up on me!

Accommodation to book next, then it will be set in stone.

Endurance training to commence after my refereeing fitness test!

Ideally I would love to have a support team.  It's going to be tough going.

Robbie

The idea is born!

So, what started off as a hypothetical joke between friends has now turned into something very real, exciting and challenging.  After being a little fed up over the summer of not going on holiday anywhere I suggested I should just 'run off' to France.  After an incubation period in my brain, I came to the conclusion that it would be a brilliant idea. (N.B. no alcohol had been consumed in this thought process)

Then came the deliberation and after careful thought and help from family and friends I decided that that might be a little too much, as blisters / dead feet would not be very good when I can't say 'I have very sore feet, please take me home' in French.

I wasn't to be deterred!  Thanks to my Dad I decided to run a section of the Cornish Coastal path which is split in a guidebook into many different walks.  So the plan is to run 150 miles from Bude to Penzance over 5 days.  I will average about a marathon or more a day and then plan to sleep for a good while when I get to Penzance!

I will be running for charity, nothing yet has been set in stone with the charity but I have decided to run for the Alzheimer's charity.

Dates are to be finalised once I know some specifics relating to my university course but next May is the plan!

Training is to commence soon and if anyone wants to help motivate me then that would be very much welcome!

I wanted to do something different this year and I think this is sufficiently different :) madness maybe, but I'm looking forward to the challenge!

Robbie