I said I could

April 11th, 2009 No Comments »

I managed my target of 10 runs in 4 weeks with a few days to spare. I think I’ll set myself the same target but continue increasing my running time. In 4 weeks time I should have done the 5km… let’s see if I can manage that target!


15 months, 20 runs, 40 miles

March 20th, 2009 3 Comments »

Yeah yeah I know… it was a good plan and all that buying the Nike+ trainers, iPod nano, and sports kit, but he’ll never use it you all said. Well, ner ner, I used it. A bit anyway. It’s more than one run per month anyway, so that’s got to be good value! I’ve managed three runs this week anyway and two last week so that helped get my average up. In order to make sure I keep up the training I’ve set myself some special Nike+ running goals. The first is to make sure that I keep up the running, so I must achieve 10 runs over the next 4 weeks.. 2 of those I have managed already. My second goal is to manage 3 miles per run in April – once I get this goal I’ll increase it, but my main aim is to build stamina so distance is just a byproduct. I’m running for 25 minutes a time at the moment which I’ll increase to 30 minutes in April.. hopefully that will give me the 3 mile target (The Nike+ site won’t let me put 3.1 miles in which is 5km so I will just have to beat the target!). Anyway, you can track my progess here:

We were on the telly!

March 24th, 2008 No Comments »

Yes it’s true.. we made it on to national television last weekend when Poppy ran her Sport Relief mile. I managed to record it and have placed it in our video album: Click here to watch - it’s only about 30 seconds or so. We are 22 seconds in to the video – keep your eye out or you’ll miss us!

Poppy's Mile: Update!!!

March 16th, 2008 3 Comments »

Poppy has made it to the BBC web site.. check out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/content/image_galleries/sport_relief_cov_2008_gallery.shtml?28

Poppy from the BBC!

Poppy's Mile

March 16th, 2008 No Comments »

She made it! A total time of 29 minutes and 28 seconds and she ran / walked all the way. I tracked it using my Nike+ / ipod and at Poppy’s pace it’s not 100% accurate, but it’s a good indication anyway. Here’s us at the finish line:

Poppy and Oliver - Sport Relief 2008

And here is her race breakdown:

Poppys Sport Relief Mile - 2008