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Probably too late, but I forgot to put my half marathon goal: 2hrs 15 probably realistic but 2 hours would be fab
Pick meeeee, pleease!!!
Joddy - if I was Catherine I'd stick to the frist 6 posts
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Name: Steve Partridge - age 47
Brief running history: Intermittent runner since the days of green flash and long socks. Usually run between 6 and 10 races per year nowadays and whilst I enjoy running - I havent joined a running club, (still self analysing that). Have ran mostly 10K races over the last few years , but this year stepped up to the half marathon ( because I needed to see if I could push myself to do it). Followed the RW beginners plan, and have ran 3 half marathons, so far this year , but havent yet got to my personal goal. Reason why we should train you: Its not that I dont think I can get round, its rather the challege of running closer to my limits and if I could get to my time target, I d seriouslty think of stepping up to a full marathon - which would be awesome. With family in the North East - the on the GNR day motivation should be there.
Half-marathon goal: 1:50 or less
Run History:I first ran outside a gym and without the aid of a treadmill in June 06, running the Race for Life, after a dear friend from work had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I throughly enjoyed the whoe experience and the bug set in. Unfortunately my friend Wendy died that September but I've continued to run. It hasn't been an easy road to run at times with set backs alone the way including personal ones with the death of my yongest brother, safety ones after being followed on a long Sunday run and ending up at the local police station, and at the moment health ones with trying to get to grips with an overactive thyroid, but still i plod on.
Reasons for help in training: I love my running but am struggling with motivation and a slight lack of confidence. I'd love to experience the of a true professional trainer encouraging and pushing me to achieve what I know I could with the right sort of help. I know I can do better but really could do with the extra boost, not just for me but ot make the last years struggle worth while and so I can hold my head high and say "Yes I did it" and feel good about it.
Goal: To complete a the GNR in 2 hours and actually improve a race time this year plus raise loads of money for BHF for my brother Alistair
RW I'd love this opportunity please really consider me !!!!!
Name : Anna Anderson
Run History : I have had 2 attempts at 10k's coming in around 1hr and respectivley, a couple of 5k's where I have come in 32 mins and 27mins and I am completing my first race for life on the 27th July 2008 where I would like to come in around 25mins.
Reasons for help in training : Well since I started running ( if you can call it that) 4 years ago I just don't seem to have progressed. I go out a couple of times a week and run for about 10 mins then have to walk. I go out, plod, come home and feel miserable that I don't seem to have progressed.
Frankly I find it incredible that I am competitive at work, I challenge others, I stick at my working goals and achieve results - yet my one little hobby just does not pack the same punch. I really really want to break through this complete barrier and stuck in this rutt period, with a goal with perpose, a mission and most of all with the push push push to keeping me going through this mental ( and phisycal ) wall that I seem to have built.
Goal - to complete the GNR with an utterly fantastic amount of pride for overcoming these obstacles and having found myself a new lease of physical and mental achievemnt.
Name: Sarah Lewis (self employed barrister, age 28)
Brief running history: Ran the London Marathon in 2006 (3 hrs 46 mins 20 secs); did the London Triathlon in 2007 (2 hrs 50 mins). Trained for the Cork Marathon in June of this year but pulled out about a month before due to lack of training in the latter stages of my training programme, but between October and end of March had been running 20 -30+ miles a week. Last race was the Kingston breakfast run in April - did 16 miles in 2 hours 10 minutes.
Generally enjoy keeping fit and great believer in cross-training for improving overall fitness and keeping training interesting. My main problem - lack of time and structure in my life in general (see below!)
Reason why we should train you: There is no real mystery as to why my training took a nose dive. Whilst I steadily trained in 2006 and 2007 as a law student, in April 2008 I finally completed my training and am now a practicing barrister. As such I am self-employed and work all over London and the south east, at different courts on a daily basis. One day I can be in Ipswich, the next Reading or Margate. I may find I have time to train in the morning; it depends how far I have to travel. Similarly I may have time to train in the afternoon as quite often I will be finished at lunchtime or soon after, but sometimes it will not be until the courts close at 5 and I have travelled back into town. What does disrupt my training the most is that I cannot guarantee fitting in an evening session as I receive my court papers for the next day at 6pm, which may require several hours of preparation.
I ask to be trained as at the moment I feel as if that as long as I am a practising barrister I will never be able to be very fit again. I'm sure that is not the case and that there are many people who have unpredictable jobs that cope very well but I ask to be steered so that I can be one of these people. RW I need salvation! I don't want my job to take over my life!
Half-marathon goal: To run having prepared thoroughly and trained hard. Target time: 1 hr 45 mins
(afternote: this is slightly late - my internet connection broke down - I hope this does not invalidate me)
I started running again in august 2007 in preparation for the FLM 2008 as a challenge for my 40th birthday and to eventually get back into running again after a 20 year break,I am now hooked again and boring my family to death,as i want to make up for all the lost years.I want to try to get back towards the fitness i had then or to see if this is possible at least.
My goals for this year are 10k sub 40mins,
half marathon sub 90 min.
marathon sub 3hr30 and ultimately sub 3hrs15mins
my current pb,s 10k in44mins,half marathon 1hr40,marathon 3hrs53mins all done around 12 hr shifts which split between days and nights,in the process of hopefully joining a local running club to help towards my goals
Maybe they were not expecting a high amount of entries. Here is the comment I was talking about:
Although saying that it could simply mean that the winners will be notified as soon as possible and everyone else will be informed in a couple of weeks.
In that case, we aint won. lol
Totally gutted... I guess it was a slim chance anyway, there were SO many great pitches in there... we all wanted it so badly, just glad i didn't have to choose, you'd have to wait a lot longer than a couple of weeks for me to decide who to pick!
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