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Seaside 10K 21st October 2007, starting at Victoria Park, Southport. It's a road race (running), and I've never done one before. My best 10k to date is 1 hour 6 minutes and 36 seconds, which is diabolically slow and will almost certainly guarantee last place. So it remains to be seen whether I can come anything other than last. Admittedly most of the running I do is off-road, such as canal towpath or across fields with long grass, cow pats and stiles to negotiate. So for a road race maybe I could knock off five minutes, but that's still slow. To be fair though I only took up running recently, and have not run at all since I was about 15 years old. Mind you even then I was slow, and hated every minute of running we had to do round Sefton Park on a Wednesday afternoon. Did Not Start Unfortunately I sprained my ankle on Saturday, so was not fit to run on Sunday. I'm really annoyed with myself, because if I had worn the boots I had in the car rather than just shoes I would not have had a problem. However, if my ankle is up to it, then I will be running the Stra Cantù on Sunday 4th November, near Como in northern Italy. |
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2011 Grant's Philosophy Life is for living, and when my time is up my body will be completely worn out. To me there is no point in doing nothing, saving yourself for your old age in the hope that you may prolong your life, what an incredibly dull life that would be. I have a need to experience as much as possible as soon as I can. What a waste it would be if I waited until I was 65 and retired to start living my life, only to get knocked down by a bus or hit by a meteorite. I push myself mentally and physically as hard as I can, sometimes at the same time. I consider it to be very selfish to do events like these, if you are only doing it for yourself. In an ideal world, every challenge I do would be raising money for some charity or other. I don't think it's fair to keep asking the same private individuals to sponsor me over and over again. Major sports equipment and clothing manufacturers would benefit from sponsoring someone like me, an ordinary (well relatively) member of the public, to do these extraordinary challenges and give that money to charity. |
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