SEPTEMBER 2013 celloutlines
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‘KEEP ON RUNNING!’ My eight year old son recently took part in ‘Race At Your Place’ at school, raising money for cancer research. All the pupils in the school were challenged to run a certain number of laps around the school field. For my son’s age group, this was four laps, which was approximately 2K. Always competitive, my son was keen to run the fastest and the longest, and there was no way that he was going to stop running and walk! The afternoon arrived, the parents turned up to offer their support and, dressed in his red top with a lemur tail (?), my son began to run. We cheered from the sidelines, shouting our encouragement… ‘You can do it!’ ‘Keep going!’ ‘You’re looking good!’ ‘Well done’! We took photos and handed out drinks of water. And we counted the laps… 1, 2, 3, 4… 18, 19, 20… 29, 30… Eventually the teachers called time and my little boy had run 32 laps, approx 8K! (And well done to all the children on a grand total of £4000 raised for this worthwhile cause!) Buoyed by his success, my son is now in training for the London Marathon, although I think that may be a few years away yet!
Talking of the London Marathon, my brother did actually run it this year. Although we couldn’t be there to support him in London, we followed his progress on the live marathon tracker, watching the little red dot that represented months of hard work slowly edge its way around the map. As the miles wore on we began to feel the pain. We knew he had set a goal of running all 26 miles in under 4 hours, and so we were willing him on – albeit from a distance – ‘Come on Tim, don’t stop running, you can do it, keep going!’ Read his blog of his marathon experience below: My alarm clock went off at 5:15am, which was less than ideal after only one hour of sleep! Yes, the nerves had got the better of me and kept me awake almost all night. But it was no good worrying about the lack of sleep now, there was the small matter of 26.2 miles to attend to… After a quick bowl of porridge we were on the coach heading to the start line at Greenwich Park, the runners chatting amongst themselves with talk of Mo Farah, training injuries, fund raising and dream finish times. continued over u
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