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Welcome to my training blog to take us all through from late December 2007 to the 2008 Flora London Marathon on April 13th. If my training goes according to plan I will have covered over 310+ miles of distance, many races including half marathons and burnt a cake-factory's worth of energy as I aim to defeat a previous PB time of 3:45.

I am raising money for the PDSA (the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) which has supported "sick animals for needy people" for the last 90+ years. Think of all those puppies and rabbits who make friends with the infirm and lonely !! 

Speaking of which, the jury is still out on whether I'll be running with bunny suit last seen in High Elms Country Park in December (see pictures!)  look forward to your support and encouragement!

Best, Stephen

www.justgiving.com/chasethebunny

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Running all over the "world"

Hi all

So it's been a while since the last post but I have been active. This week and for the next two weeks I am working out and about the UK on various site visits, so I have had to tweak my training around going to various gyms and combatting the inclement weather - i.e. it's cold "oop north". So on Tuesday this week I went to an LA Fitness gym in Leeds; and yesterday I went to a gym in Soli-hull to do a work-out. In theory I could have planned running routes based on the local geography on google maps and through the recommendations of "locals" but in the end, I'm not too too fussed becuase I know that I've been doing things to my "core" almost daily and that I've been doing all those long runs at the weekend?

Oh well about that - I was supposed to run 16 miles on Sunday but actually did 0 miles. Well - I figure that if you rigidly stick to the programme then it becomes something of a fear thing and therefore you won't do any of it. Therefore, I am happy to do whatever I'm supposed to this Sunday - probably a gruseome 18 miles!!!!  But I will take it in my stride and around other events - i.e. on Saturday I'm doing the Larkfield Aquathon (http://www.orprunners.com/event_larkfieldaquathon.html) which will be a good bit of cross training and hopefully get me encouraged to kick-start some swimming x-training.

The sponsorship is going well and I will send another e-mail round to the world as we approach the approx 1/2 way point between, er, well between two points. Think of those infirm animals that bring joy to the lives of the eldery and those living alone. I've almost got tears in my eyes as we speak!

 

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