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Lincolnshire London Marathon Runners
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SUPPORT OUR LOCAL LONDON MARATHON RUNNERS
This is a special section for all those from the Lincolnshire area who are taking part in the London Marathon for charities. You can give your details and those of the charity you are running for and give any details/links re sponsorship and your charity.
This is an all free community service
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Posted on website 20th April 2007
Clare Natschowny
Hello,
Only 2 days and 11hours left until I run theLondon Marathon. Only 5 days until I finish!!! HaHa! I'm raising money for the Brain Research Trust and would really really welcome your support so I can reach my target.
Please take a moment to sponsor me. It's really easy - you can donate online by credit or debit card at the following address:
http://www.justgiving.com/snatch
All donations are secure and sent electronically to Brain Research Trust. If you are a UK taxpayer, Justgiving will add an automatic 28% bonus to your donation at no cost to you. Please join me in supporting Brain Research Trust and a fabulous cause!
Thanks and best wishes,
Clare xxx
Posted on website 13rd April 2007
TRACY WILL WEAR TUTU FOR LONDON MARATHON
Marathon runner Tracy Cotton in a yellow tutu with children from Lacey Gardens Junior School. Photo: Ian Holmes. | A TEACHER will be wearing a yellow tutu as she hits the streets of our capital city for the London Marathon on April 22.
Tracy Cotton, a teacher at Lacey Gardens Junior School, is running in memory of her sister, Samantha.
Samantha died of cot death when she was 13-weeks-old and would have been 25 this year.
Tracy, from Graye Drive, Louth, said her yellow tutu is the same colour as the logo of the charity she is running for, the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.
She hopes to raise more than £1,500 for the charity and is looking for people to sponsor her.
Tracy said: "I want to raise as much as I can. The school have been fantastic."
Children held a small cake sale for her last week, there was a Victorian Fair, and many local firms have also agreed to sponsor Tracy.
She said: "I'm very touched by people's generosity."
Some readers might have spotted Tracy in training for her run.
She said: "I did 18 miles last Sunday and for the last five I wore my tutu to see if it was OK to run in."
* To sponsor Tracy visit www.justgiving.com/tracycotton or call 07949 444813.
Posted on website 6 April 2007
David Munday
(Tel 07780 955 717) |
Our marathon details are as follows:
David (Tel 07780 955 717) and Kay Michelle Munday (Tel: 07717 638932) - husband and wife 'team.' from Market Rasen.
Dave will be running in hawaiian theme as he is unable to actually run the whole marathon due to injury substained in his enduro racing with the Banovallum Lincolnshire Motorcycle Club. He is still running 15 miles per week but it will be a walk run effort for the 26 mile slog.
Kay Michelle Munday (Tel: 07717 638932) |
Kay (known as Michelle to her friends) is running for the Make a Wish foundation.
Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening illnesses. Since being established in the UK in 1986, we have granted over 4,200 wishes.
Make-A-Wish has no cures to offer and all too often some of our endings are sad but, during desperate times when there seems to be no hope, Make-A-Wish steps in and provides positive and uplifting relief. Most of all, a wish granted brings a time of magic and joy for the special children and families we serve
If you would like to make a donation to the foundation for my Marathon run website for donations is: www.justgiving.com/helptomakeawish there is also a donation tin at Middle Rasen Post Office.
This is my 1st Marathon, I completed the Great North Run in 2 hours 11 Mintues last year. My favourite race is 10k of which I took part in 8 last year. I am running 5 days a week with one long run and 4 smaller runs although I'm now starting to taper to prepare for the big run. I always run in Orange and have had the odd shout of Tango Woman by regular passers by after being featured in the Rasen Mail last year.
Dave always beats me in races that they do together and the pictures below is of Dave coming through at the West Pinchbeck 10K 2007 beating me by 4 seconds.
Colin the cat may not be able to go on the London Marathon - he was born without any back paws - but Neil Kay, manager of the Market Rasen Co-op will be running for him.
Neil Kay |
Neil, a member of the Saxilby Road Runners, who has run three half marathons but no full one, is raising money for the Lincolnshire Trust for Cats with his run in April.
Apart from his birth defect, Colin is a purrfectly happy cat.
He is being sponsored by the Lincolnshire Co-op and Spectrum in Lincoln. Jain Kydd of the Trust said how grateful she was for his sponsorship. If you can sponsor him, just call 07766 31
FACED with training for the London Marathon whilst also running for election, there was only one thing for it - to combine the two.
Whilst putting in the legwork to hold onto his seat in West Lindsey’s May elections Gary Fenwick will be doubling up with his marathon preparations.
Gary Fenwick |
Gary has been overlooked for London six times and initially saw it as bad timing to be accepted for this year’s race which falls midway through his election campaign.
“With work, family life, councillor work and the elections I couldn’t see where I’d fit the marathon in as well, but I wasn’t going to turn it down after waiting so long so I will literally have to run around to fit get it all done.”
The Marathon is on April 22, 11 days before the May 3 poll. The election campaign will start in earnest two weeks before the big race.
“Fortunately the running will be tapering off then but I’ll be combining my training with leafleting out in the villages,” said Middle Rasen father of two Gary (46).
He is running for the NSPCC and hopes to come in under four hours - having done a marathon 25 years ago, aged 21, in three hours and 56 minutes.
“It would make a middle aged man very happy to beat a young man’s time,” he said.
Last week he ran the Sleaford half marathon in one hour, 45 minutes, and last September ran the Great North Run at a similar pace.
He is currently training five times a week with fellow Marathon entrants Brian Fox and Ian Mair and John Purkiss.
* To sponsor him go to www.justgiving.co.uk/nspcc/garyfenwick or call Gary on 01673 843597.
Posted on site 8th March 2007
Marathon duo in race to get funds
Following in her grandmother’s footsteps, Rachael Wood. ALF083. |
Marathon runner Mark Irving. ALF092. |
TWO local runners will tackle the London Marathon next month on April 22 - but they already have the mammoth task of raising funds for their chosen charities.
As well as training hard Rachael Wood, 18, from West Street, Alford, needs to raise £1,500 for Asthma UK; and Mark Irving, 40, from Tavern Way, Willoughby, is looking to find £1,800 for Get Kids Going.
Rachael is following in her grandmother’s footsteps. Jean Dale, who worked in the Tourist Information Centre in Alford Manor House, ran the marathon six years ago to raise money towards the refurbishment of the building.
Her granddaughter Rachael is in the sixth form at Alford Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School where she is studying PE, sociology and health and social care. She hopes to go to university next year and study sports studies.
Living on a diet containing lots of rice and pasta, Rachael, who has previously taken part in two half marathons, the Great North Run, is clocking up one 12 mile run and two four mile runs a week.
A father of two, Mark has always wanted to run the marathon in London and has been training since Christmas.
He is also covering 20 miles a week, fitted in between his job as a salesman for a printing company in Norwich and coaching the juniors at cricket on Sunday evenings in Alford Sports Hall.
He is running for the Get Kids Going charity, which provides mobility chairs for young people.
* Information: Both runners are looking for sponsorship. To sponsor Rachael, telephone 01507 463763; to sponsor Mark, telephone 01507 463172.
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