2010 Abersoch 10km ~ 51 minutes 52 Seconds! :-)

Second time at the Abersoch 10km event for me, this year the course changed slightly starting in the town rather than on the beach. Also had the company of Karen, Jenny and Dom and sunshine rather than the wind and rain of last year which made for an all round much better day!

 

The run was as tough as ever (perhaps more so in the warmth of the sun!) running up out of Abersoch through Sarnbach and then tracking around Abersoch Bay and up a gruelling hard core track to the highest point at Porth Tocyn with views out towards Bardsey Island before heading back through Sarnbach and the last mile along the beach to finish under the Yacht Club.

 

A truly stunning route and a pleasing time (seven seconds off last years time ;-) !

2010 Great Manchester Run ~ 49 minutes and 33 seconds

What a fantastic Day and an honour to represent the Isaiah Trust for the fourth year running!

Met up with the guys from the IT team before hand (L-R Chris, Rob, Karl, myself and Karen)

And ran much of the way round with them. Finished in a respectable 49 minutes and 33 seconds... Pleased to manage to get under 50 mins again!

Karen blasted her 'under an hour' target finishing in 52 mins and 04 seconds (and this is only the second time she's run this distance)!
Met up with Rachael (the other member of our work's IT team) at the end along with the rest of the girls...

All told have raised £290 on my own donation page and another £1,153 with the IT team I work with :-)

Karen has raised £630 so all in all a great fund raising experience for a very worthwhile cause! Thanks everyone for your support and generosity!

Rounded off the day with a BBQ and well earned beers back at ours afterwards!

D :-)

2009 RNLI Reindeer Run 10km @ Knowsley ~ 50mins 50secs

A great family day out today at the RNLI Reindeer runs at Knowsley Safari Park despite the cold, wet, windy and muddy conditions!

<- I finished the 10km in 50 minutes and 50 seconds

And the girls finished the 5km in
37 mins 02 seconds ->







<- and 39 mins respectively!



Rounded off the runs with mulled wine, hot chocolate and mince pies courtesy of the RNLI... Very civilised!

D :-)

2009 Great North Run ~ 2hours 6mins (£1,359 raised for the RNLI)

Finished the Great North Run today in two hours six minutes and nine seconds!

Not a fantastic time but quite pleased given the extent of my Hamstring tear that I nursed through the run (this morning I thought I might not be able to make it! Topped up on Ibuprofen and Syndol an hour before the race)

Some images from the big day to share with you... The crowd at the start in the middle of Queen's " we will rock you"... a spine tingling moment!

 

Team Lifeboat at the RNLI post race reception at South Shields Sailing club



Lucie "Supporting the Lifeboats" :-)






My most loyal supporters! xx
Thanks Again everyone for the support and helping to raise another £1,359 for the RNLI!!!

D

2009 Abersoch 10k ~ 51mins 59secs

What a fantastic event! The torrential rain that was in for the day broke for a couple of hours before the start to just after the finish. The couple of miles along the beach weren't as bad as expected but the hills... They were sooo tough!

The views of St Tudwals Islands, Bardsey Island and the lanes en route were spectacular. The management and Marshalls great. The beach groynes (sea breaks), stiles, tracks and lanes made for a bit of steeple chase but added to the uniqueness of the run

I'm really pleased with the time of 51 minutes and 59 seconds considering the course. The few hundred people that took part made for a much more interesting race than the Great Run thousands.

 

D :-)

2009 Great Manchester 10km ~ 48mins 31secs! (£625 raised for the Isaiah Trust)

What a fantastic day! I'd optimistically hoped to get under 50 minutes but ran a new personal best of 48 minutes 31 seconds which I'm chuffed to bits with (beat my time from last year by 4 minutes)! I came 3,707th out of around 33,000 runners :-)

You can see my full results here - http://www.nike.com/europerunning/grs/index.jsp?runner=736749&rid=122

The girls were in full voice in support and it was great meeting up with the rest of the team afterwards who all ran well!
 Also met up with my brother Kev & his wife Bev who ran the run for the first time and had a family beer with them afterwards to round off a great afternoon!

My aim for this run (as well as getting a good time and have fun doing so!) was to raise much needed funds for the Isaiah Trust, thanks for helping me to raise another £625 towards their life changing work! 

D :-) 

2008 Great North Run for the RNLI ~ 1hour 58mins 4secs ~ £2,291 raised for the RNLI

The RNLI Crew ~ L-R Andy Gunby, Neil McGill, Chas Myers

This is the run that kicks off my RNLI fundraising, and what a kick start!
The atmosphere was amazing and although it was a lot tougher than I expected I managed to come in under my two hour target time of 1 hour 58 minutes, finishing 11,617th out of 52,000 runners... Which I'm really pleased with :-)

You can see my full results here:-
http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/emea/v1/race/index.html?datapath=/nikeplus/emea/v1/race/race_run/en/great_northern_run/&lang=en#/graph?user=10159
I'm even more pleased, in fact overwhelmed by your generosity! I'd ambitiously hoped to raise £1,000 for the RNLI but as you can see from the results above we've more than doubled it! Thank you so so much!!!
All funds raised will be going to the Abersoch lifeboat station to help maintain its presence... I trust you feel as I do that this is your money well placed!
Thanks again!