Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Monday, 11 May 2009

Like a nun possessed


Sorry posts have been quite slow recently. I've been a busy doing assorted things that I may get round to writing about at some point. But one thing that wasn't slow was me last weekend on the Barnardo's Nun Run.




It was only four miles and I came in 378th out of 1000 runners, clocking a time of 00:50:40. Marie got the exact same time (we did spend much of the race with the balloons tied to the back of our habits tangled together and I was pushing her round the course rest of the time) but was ranked 377th but I'm not bitter or anything.




50 minutes isn't exactly a record-breaking time for 4 miles (nun costume or not) but it wasn't too bad considering there wasn't a roped-off course. We were running through underpasses, over bridges and along the Southbank weaving through herds of bewildered tourists.

My sponsorship total is rising slowly but since it was really a just a bit of fun, I haven't been asking too many people. It's not like I ran the marathon, grew a ridiculous 'tache or anything. If you do want to give some money to the Barnardo's kids, please do at: https://www.bmycharity.com/V2/Timsinthehabit

There are quite a lot of photos of the run on t'interweb but the official photography was done by Perfect-Timing Photography (which you should be able to see once they've sorted their bandwidth issues). I haven't managed to spot myself yet but if you see runner number 66, that's me. Marie was 68.

Friday, 24 April 2009

Jog on

Marie and I finally decided it was time to start training for our big run. No, not the one this weekend, but one the week after. Dressed as nuns. But it's for Barnardo's.

Running is boring. I wish it was something more like this:




http://www.onwards.tv/

Incidently, if anyone wants to sponsor me in The Nuns Run, please do so here: www.bmycharity.com/Timsinthehabit. Thanks