Ian’s 2009 Charity Challenge
Climbing high and running a long long way for The Stroke Association
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Archive for June, 2009
Alps Preparation
In: General
28 Jun 2009Mont Blanc and my trip to the Alps is now really close! I’m a mixture of excitement and anxiety, it feels attainable but still a long way (up) and a lot of hard work away. Yet despite some hitches, the training, hours spent walking in the UK and kit purchases seem to be coming together [...]
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- Tags: alps, mont blanc, mountaineering
Potters ‘Arf Marathon
In: Running
16 Jun 2009Preparation was going fantastically a month before the race. I’d started to run regularly 4 times a week (5-7km before work) and had breezed a 15km route nearby with one particularly nasty hill, in just over 1hr 15mins. And then having some fun scrambling in Snowdonia on my own, I slipped down-climbing off a summit [...]
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- Tags: Half Marathon, Running, Stoke
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Updates on my 2009 activities running a long way and climbing high to raise money/awareness for The Stroke Association.
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- Jalal: Hi Ian I have decide to do the Toubkal on the 26th October , i am doing a 4 days trek. i may hav [...]
- Nimble Runner: Well done Ian, what a great first half of 2009. Was nice to meet you on Twitter and to (almost) ru [...]
- amy: Congratulations on your race! Sometimes enjoying the race is the piece we miss the most in our runn [...]
- Angela Higgins: Ah well done Ian. Fantastic effort. Good wee posting too :D The moral of the story... don't go c [...]
- Ian: Hi Jalal, The climb in winter was non technical and is possible even with minimal experience walk [...]