This sporting life Neil Amner (1984)
Peter Littlefield (1992)
Neil was runner-up in this year’s Britain’s Fittest Director 2011, a competition run by The Telegraph ‘to find the business people in the best shape to grow their business and meet the challenges of the next 12 months’.
In April 2011 Peter became a Partner at Top 100 UK law firm Turcan Connell. Peter specialises in private client law and provides succession, estate and tax planning advice to families, entrepreneurs and landowners. Although he now lives in Edinburgh with his wife Yvonne and two children, he continues to maintain strong links to Glasgow and was recently part of a team of cyclists from Turcan Connell that raised over £150,000 to help towards the building of the new Marie Curie Hospice at Stobhill.
From The Telegraph... A partner at Biggart Baillie, Neil said he finds time by ‘making time’ for his fitness. For instance, when his firm’s partners meet for their board meeting in Edinburgh, he sends a suit to the office by internal mail the day before the meeting and then cycles the 100 mile round trip. He said his top tip is to carry a gym bag when travelling for work, citing one Paris conference where he went out for a 10,000m morning run and covered eight of the 10 most popular tourist attractions. ‘It works anywhere in the world. How many business people fly somewhere and only see the inside of the conference hotel?’ Having survived his first Highland Warrior half iron man in September last year, Mr Amner is now training for the full iron man ‘Challenge Barcelona’ in October and has planned out a series of event challenges during the spring and summer to build up his stamina and confidence. ‘You can apply that sequential approach to business,’ he said, pointing to the danger of going to networking events without a clear plan who to meet and how the introduction could develop into a valuable relationship. Congratulations Neil. He does, however, claim that this is just proof that one shouldn’t believe everything you read in the press!
Stuart Hardie (1964) Stuart wrote to update us on his progress with the run from John o’ Groats to Land’s End which we featured in Etcetera No 13. At the beginning of the year it was decided that, although training was going well, I was not sufficiently well on with fund raising to progress over Easter 2011 as planned. The team and I are now scheduled to leave John o’ Groats on 20 September arriving at Land’s End on 29 October… 40 marathons in 40 days!
Robert McAlpine (2009)
Peter Littlefield
three months to go before we set off and we have raised a further £150,000 in pounds, promises and pledges. 400 invitations have gone out to rugby clubs by-passed on the trip South - including a letter to Accies - inviting them to join me for one day of the run. Any money the club raises by way of sponsorship the club keeps. We are now on target to raise a significant sum for a number of charities but for Wooden Spoon, the children’s charity of rugby, in particular. The route has changed quite dramatically as the UK police forces wanted me off-road as much as possible. We now are off road from Inverness to south of Lanark by way of the Great Glen Way, the West Highland Way and the Clyde Walkway - right past The Academy. The English canals and tow paths get me off road from south of Kendal down as far as the Severn. Follow Stuart’s progress at www.jogtole.co.uk
Since leaving The Academy – after serving as Head Boy in his final year – Robert has built on his earlier Scotland Under-17 and Under-18 team success. Last year he was selected for the IRB JWC in Argentina where he earned three caps and earlier this year he became a vital part of the 2011 Scotland under-20 Six Nations Championship squad. In June Robert won a further five caps at the IRB Junior World Championships in Italy in matches against South Africa, England, Ireland, Tonga and Argentina. Robert’s great-uncle, Angus Cameron, played for Scotland and the British Lions, and another great-uncle, Donald Cameron, was also a Scotland cap.
Robert McAlpine
Vicki Jackson (1998) I have recently overturned a lifetime’s avoidance of exercise (doubt any of the PE department knew I went to the school!) and completed the Edinburgh Marathon 2011, raising £1200 for Bliss. On the back of this, I have been given a place with Bliss to run the London 2012 Marathon, which will follow the proposed route for the Olympic marathon!
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