My first marathon by JessL

• Lackluster legs (boo!), 12 miles (hooray!) and my plan to entice sponsors with a bottle of bubbly

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  Jan2620101 p.m.

  Up until now my main concern has been making it round those 26.2 miles but suddenly a new worry has kicked in… sponsorship money!  So my sponsorship quest has now officially started!  

   

  I'm raising money for St John Ambulance who I chose as most of the staff are volunteers and also because they helped in the London bombings in 2005.  I'm trying to entice sponsors by offering a bottle of champagne to the person who guesses my finish time the closest .  And I'm even also featuring in my staff newsletter (eek, how embarrassing!) to hopefully persuade some of my colleagues!

   

  Last week I was quite busy so my two weekday runs ended up on consecutive days (not ideal).  And even less ideal was the fact that the second of these was supposed to be speed work!   Needless to say but my legs were feeling rather lackluster so I only managed a sorry attempt that was a bit disappointing.  It's never a good sign when you have to hold on the sides of the treadmill to finish your run!

   

  But by the weekend things were looking up and I managed a whole 12 miles on Sunday!  I kept pretty steadily to a 12 minute mile (2 hours 25 mins in total) and although my legs are a bit achy they don't feel too bad at all.   This coming weekend I'm going to do a shorter run to give myself a bit of a break- pheew

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  • Kendlef 'brilliant work. i did my 12 mile run in 2hr 25 too, but my 13 took me a lot longer - not quite sure how that figures :) great idea for sponsorship. i really need to pull my finger out with my sponsorship too. i have the offer of cake to the highest sponsorship :) enjoy your shorter run at the weekend, iv got 14 miles planne for friday and looking forward to a chilled weekend :D' added 26th Jan 2010

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  • Firefly123 'Sounds like a good idea for sponsorship money. That was a good 12 mile run. Well done.' added 26th Jan 2010

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  • antcoleman 'Sounds like your trainings well on course with that 12 miler. Keep up the good work and good luck with the fund raising.' added 26th Jan 2010

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  • squa25 'Nice12m run. Well done. Good thinking on the sponsorship. I've done nowt so far this year but I have a cunning plan. Haha ' added 26th Jan 2010

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  • garyb 'Hi Jess, well done on the fundrasing idea, think that will certainly help rake in the pennies. Well done on the 12 miles as well, awespme stuff...' added 27th Jan 2010

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