My Family

There can be no doubt that my family have worked extremely hard to support Myeloma UK and have all achieved a great deal. All seven finished the Manchester 10k and I am especially proud of my wife Carole who finished ahead of many other runners far younger than herself. I am also proud of all family for giving so much to make this a memorable day. The money raised by many supporters is now past the £3000 mark and this is a fantastic achievement. To all of you who supported my family I thank you most sincerely. Myeloma is a terrible form of cancer and the money raised will help towards finding an eventual cure. This cannot come too soon as from personal experience I can say that it is very unpleasant.

The Day After

Yesterday was fantastic, I surprised myself with the distance I could run and the time I completed it in - 1hr 14mins 39sec. I am now wondering what I could have done had I been able to continue training.... maybe do it again next year and see :-)

The rest of the family did brilliantly and should be proud of themselves as should Geoff having to put up with having his photo taken with us sweaty lot after the race.

Thank you all for your generous donations which have helped us beat our target

What a family

What a fantastic family we have.
They have all tremendously well and I cannot express how proud I am of them all;both Liz and Kath surpassed themselves,Liz did'nt really expect to be able to run at all yet she finished in under one hour fifteen minutes and Kath has some significant health problems which have hampered her training significantly nevertheless she also finished the race in a very commendable time.Ian surpassed himself as I always knew that he would,; Alan has just got on with his training programme and said very little however I always knew that he would do the family proud and he has never let us down.James was a safe bet from the outset he was totally focussed on his goal of 45 minutes this morning and achieved his personal best of 44.15,knowing James he will now focus on improving even further for next year.Last but not least is my darling daughter who completed the 10k for her dad;she has never pretended to look forward to today however she has always said that she would complete the course and she did so in heavy rain and a respectable one hour 42 minutes.
Geoff and I have family to be truly proud of they are always extremely supportive to us both and there are times I know where we forget that they need support too.It is comforting for me to know that they all have each other.
Today has been yet another extremely emotional day for me as I knew that it would be,Geoff has been extemely unwell this weekend and I can only hope that things will improve.
Before I sign off for the final time I would like to thank you all once again for your generosity in helping us to fight this dreadful disease.

We did it!!

Thank you everyone for your generosity. The amount that we have raised is overwhelming :o)

I walked the 10K as planned (I did have a few short jogging spurts but not many!). I finished in 1:42:07 which I am happy with. At first I expected to finish in 2 hours and then I decided on 1:45 so I was slightly ahead of my target. I ranked 26674 overall and 6643 for my age group and gender.

I didn't feel tired after it but my legs where achey so definately needed a stop! I was disappointed that it rained - I hate being out in the rain at the best of times - so my last 3Km was miserable but it was worth it.

Definately 1 that I can tick off my "things to do before I die list" but not one that I would willingly repeat!!

Congratulations to my family, everyone did fab and should be really proud of themselves xx

Home and dry

We're all back home now enjoying a post run chili and cakes.

Here's a photo of us all post run with Dad :-)

Done and done

Well that's it done, the weather's held up to now, it was a good run, went off a bit fast and had to dig deep for the last 3k but I think I hit my target.

Phones Dad for a quick chat, phoned Jess to wish her luck, managed to see the pink start now waiting for E.

Thank you for your generosity, it's even more amazing in tough economic times.

We'll upload our times later, as I write everyone else should be running!

The Big Day

James, Liz and Carole have left to travel to Manchester for the event. Lets hope the rain stays off until they have at least started and at best finished. Having looked at the Just Giving Donation page the target has been exceeded. 2600 raised on behalf of Myeloma UK. What can I say? A marvelous achievement which makes me proud of my family. I am sure that when the money is in the confers of Myeloma UK it will be put to very good use.

All that is left to say is good luck to James, Liz, Carole, Ian, Kathy, Jessica and Alan and let us hope that they all exceed their hopes for a good time.