Ian’s 2009 Charity Challenge
Climbing high and running a long long way for The Stroke Association
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Sherwood Pines 10k
In: Running
12 Oct 2009It seems such a long time ago I ran this race, being late July (the 19th), it was! So firstly my apologies for the long delay in posting about the race (and Mont Blanc/GNR/Leics Half, they’res coming straight after this), I’ve been trying to buy a house, cope with lots on at work, lots of [...]
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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
Hinckley Half Marathon
In: Running
16 May 2009It was as if I’d blinked after the Belvoir Half Marathon, and then found myself waiting to run the Hinckley Half Marathon on the 10th May. Between the races I’d started to wall climb and spent two weekends in Wales walking in Snowdonia, as well as the usual 2-3 runs a week. So it was [...]
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Belvoir Half Marathon
In: Running
23 Apr 2009After Morocco, I’d taken a week off training, mainly due to the volume of work I came back to. This actually suited me really well, my legs had a decent rest and I found time to go buy some new trainers after some gait analysis at the fantastic Leicester Running Shop.
The gap also gave me [...]
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Brighton Half Marathon
In: Running
25 Feb 2009So on Sunday 22nd of February I finally got going with this year’s running, which was great given the amount of organising that’s gone on before!
I’d chosen Brighton to be first race of the year having seen it a couple of years ago and thought then what a really nice race it would be, being [...]
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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 [...]