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    Simply Paul Guest

    Thumbs up A new Begging Bowl thread - Great North Run, Sept 18th

    Following on from the 'Vertical Rush' race up Tower42 earlier this month, for which 'cachers were instrumental in helping me smash my £150 target for Shelter and getting me across the line a mere 1.3 seconds ahead of my 7 minute target, I've been on the lookout for a new challenge to keep me motivated at the gym...

    Readers of my geocaching.com profile will already know I've just learned I've been accepted at the last minute to run 13.1miles/21.1Km for The British Heart Foundation on September the 18th. The televised Great North Run is the world's biggest Half Marathon and I'll be joined by 55,999 other runners (if the website is to be btaken literally) to run between Newcastle to South Shields. I lost my father to a heart attack in 2005, at the too-young age of 64, making The British Heart Foundation a charity close to my... heart.

    I've paid £30 to take part but if I fail to hit the £500 minimum target, I'll have to make up the difference myself(!) so I'm going to be fundraising just as hard as I'll be training. To 'keep things interesting' I'm setting myself the target of completing the course in under 2 hours; a bit under 7mph for 120 minutes...

    Any help kind fellow geocachers can give me to keep, via my Just Giving page at www.justgiving.com/HawayTheLad, would be massively appreciated, as it has been for past fundraising races I've taken part in; The Three Peaks Challenge in 2009, Sports Relief 6 Miles and 48.1mile Round Jersey run/walk/hobble in 2010 and the Vertical Rush event this year, as above.

    After the run and some walk-by caching to stretch my legs out I hope to be relaxing in a near-by pub for a Cache Event: GC-TBC After The Pain! - I'll add a link when I'm able. If you happen to be in or around Newcastle, Gateshead or South Shields on Sept 18th, it'd be great to see you there. With or without any spare change
    Last edited by Simply Paul; 15th March 2011 at 05:27 PM.

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