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For those of you who've enquired about taking up a YouthNet place, that would be fantastic :d . The one thing I'll point out now is that we ask you to try and raise £499 in sponsorship/fundraising in order to take up one of our places as this is a really vital way of us raising the funds to keep TheSite.org running (no pun intended). So if you're up for the challenge, we'd love to have you on the team! If you're all based in London, you could even get together to put on some events like I mentioned before - it's loads easier to fundraise as a group.
Also, though, the £499 is just a target - i know that a lot of people get put off when we say that figure but we've found that by giving runners a high figure to aim for, they do tend to hit it! But, we won't be asking you to pay the extra if you don't get that high....we DEFINITELY don't want you losing money by agreeing to do such an awesome thing for us
You can read more and sign up here http://youthnet.org/getinvolved/challengeevents/RoyalParksHalfMarathon
It's what you might call an "aspirational" target.... :thumb: but as I said, we won't make anyone cough up if they don't hit it.
Well Mum's up for doing it. She's put my trainers in the post as a prompt to get started.... I was all up for it this morning but I've hit another uncertain patch because motivating myself is really hard. I don't have anyone here to run with, etc.
Having said that, I know it made me feel so much better when I used to run regularly.
i will be running alone too to train
Mum has a good one for her iPhone that tells you how to do your intervals by voice through your headphones but the only one I can find for the BlackBerry isn't compatible with my phone. Boo.
http://alternativeto.net/software/runkeeper-pro/?license=free&platform=blackberry
Think I found something that will do it.
http://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/856694-long-distance-running-advice-how-to-avoid-sole-destroying-injuries
these articles were in the paper this morning i was reading on the bus, so thought i would share.
good luck all you guys doing something so inspirational
Ooooh I'm nervous!
I just checked Randomboy's e-mails - no news either.
Then I tried to mark it as unread so he didn't know I'd been messing but I marked his entire inbox as unread... think he might notice!
I didn't
I am seriously considering doing it for YouthNet because (and I promise I'm not just saying this) I don't think any other charity has had such a significant impact on the last ten years of my life and I've seen them do such a range of good.
The other option is to see if the hospice at home charity who treated my Grandad are entering it but they're very local so I guess they won't be.
ETA: if they do, they're not advertising it.
Youthnet are a wonderful charity and do a lot of good work. Would be a good choice x
Yeah... I just need to bite the bullet and do it I suppose. Someone pointed out that £500 is only 50 people sponsoring me £10 and that should be do-able...
Went for my first run yesterday which was (using the technical term) crap. So I have a way to go but there are training guides that reckon you can go from 0-marathon in 12 weeks so I should be able to do half in about 24 weeks right?
I've not done more than 5k ever.
ive just got this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Running-Book-Completing-Techniques/dp/1598695061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299319493&sr=8-1
looks quite good
did you get a place?
Franki, did you?