Monthly Archives: March 2013

Interrupted London Marathon Training!

Fundraising, ,

Today its exactly one month to go until the London Marathon – eek!  Sponsorship is going quite well, and I’m over the £1000 mark now with the next target to be £1500 but I’m hoping that I’ll get closer to £2000!  Various people have said that they will sponsor me but haven’t yet so I’m still hopeful 🙂

The biggest problem now though is various interruptions to my planning training regime – all very frustrating.  In recent weeks I’ve had niggles, wisdom tooth removed, bad cold, and now I’m off to Taiwan for a week!  It means that my training plan has become a bit hit & miss just at a time when I needed to get my longest walks in and keep my stamina up.

All of the above means that I’m only going to do one ‘longest’ walk )should be 7.25 hours which is about 45 mins less than I’m expecting to take on the day) rather than 2 and I’ll be missing stamina training (not expecting any opportunities to do training in Taiwan) at a time when I really can’t afford to miss anything.  All in all it makes me a bit worried about finishing the marathon, but I’m determined not to drop out at this stage.  I guess the worst that will happen on the day is that I keep on stopping so it takes me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I WILL FINISH!!

 

(As always, you can sponsor me at http://www.justgiving.com/Sturtridge-London-Marathon)

I’m doing the London Marathon for the HEAL Project in Zambia

Fundraising,
As its just over 6 weeks until I do the marathon, its time to mass email my friends and family in order to ask for sponsorship.  I’ve decided to post the email I’ve sent out here too so that I can link to it from Twitter and Facebook. Every little helps right?

Dear Family and Friends,

As most of you may know, I have been training since September for the London Marathon which I will be doing in just over 6 weeks time (eek!) on the 21st April.  Gemma thinks I am completely mad (I’m inclined to agree) especially as the state of my knees means that I will be walking the Marathon rather than running it, which will take me over 7 3/4 hours!!!  I might *just* finish in time to get a medal and an official time, but thats not why I’m doing it.

The reason that I’m doing this mad challenge is to raise money for the HEAL Project in Zambia (www.healprojectzambia.org.uk) which helps both children and adults affected by HIV/Aids.  The project helps to educate, feed and house them, and includes a house where 30 children with AIDs are cared for and given medication, a school with 350 children, and a vocational school for adults where they learn carpentry and sewing.  My cousin established the charity and my family helps to run it so we know that any money you donate will go directly to the project as there are no administration costs.
For example your donation could help like this:

£10 provides a bag of Meali Meal to feed 350 children at school for one week
£20 provides a bag of Rice to feed 350 children at school for one week

£50 provides a 90 Kg bag of beans to feed 350 children at school for a month
£70 provides 90 Kg of Capenta dried fish to feed 350 children at school for a month
£65 pays for a general worker at the school a month
£150 pays for one teacher for a month (there are 7 at the school)
£600 provides for food for both the house and school for a month.

For those that have already sponsored me – thank you, I’m very grateful!  If you have not yet sponsored me but would like to, please go to www.justgiving.com/Sturtridge-London-Marathon or contact me direct for a sponsorship form.  Please feel free to forward this email onto your friends and family as well as it all helps.  Your support means a lot to the Project and also to me – this weekend I will be walking 21.5 miles which will be quite tough so please help me make the hard training worthwhile!!!

Thank you in advance!

Caroline