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Flora London Marathon 26th April 2009, a bit of a run around our capital. I entered the ballot for the 2009 race the day after I completed the 2008 event. My aim this year is to break 4 hours, knocking over an hour off my 2008 time. I will be taking the whole year to train for the event and this time I'm going to apply some science. My current running technique is total garbage and extremely inefficient, so by doing various drills and with the use of video the aim is to change the way I actually run, maximise the efficiency and increase speed. You'll be able to monitor my progress on these pages with the aid of my Nike+ tracking system, I'll do a monthly report with what training I have done and how my average pace has changed. |
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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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