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Half Marathon Sponsor Page..

theoracle8 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:23:03 +0000

I have managed to set up a just giving page, I hope you will find it in you to donate and help me reach the target needed. The link is http://www.justgiving.com/Ben-Turnstill . Thankyou.

Slow start…

theoracle8 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:04:41 +0000

So a slow start to the week, with me not doing alot, although I have sorted my eating out very well already and am eating alot more healthier than I was (apart from Saturday last week!). The only real excercise I have done so far is playing a football match last night, which I enjoyed (and we won).

I have been accepted into the Great South Run which is in Portsmouth in October. The only way I could do this was by running for a charity and the only charity that had places open was Guide Dogs Uk. So I will be running this for them, and would appreciate any donations anyone could make so I can reach the target (I will have a link up soon). I have not yet heard back from Diabetes UK with regards to running next years London Marathon for them so I have just emailed them again and hope to hear soon.

Thats all for this week really, I plan to get busy and hopefully the next update will be better than this! Also if anyone wants to link me on their blog i’ll happily put them on my links too.

The Beginning (of the end?!)…

theoracle8 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:37:22 +0000

Well a little about me.. I am a 22 year old poker player who does nothing but sit down all day/night and eat far too much junk food.

I have noticed how unfit I have become lately through joining a 5 a side team with my brother, and I am out of breath after about 2 minutes! I used to play football to a high standard as a kid and run cross country’s for my school etc. I dont know what went wrong! Luckily, despite my best efforts, I have managed to not put much (if any!) weight on since leaving school. I still weigh somewhere around 11 stone and am just over 6ft tall.

I plan to start getting fit, and this was just going to be the 5 a side once a week, but as I become to realise that won’t be enough I new I needed to do something else. Well, I didn’t have to do anything else. My mum has signed me up to a half marathon in October and only told me today – I will be running it with her so I can’t let the side down and be the one wanting to give up!! On the back of this news I have got a bit carried away, and my thoughts were, if i’m going to get fit to do this I need to do it properly and if I just get back on the couch afterwards what would be the point in doing it. So today, I have applied for a place in the London Marathon.

The marathon is full up by now of course but there are still plenty of places left for charities. Obviously the 26.2 miles is hard enough in itself, but just to make it doubly hard i’m going to have to raise around £1500-£2000 for charity if I want to get in. I chose the charity Diabetes UK, the reason behind this was because a close friends son recently got diagnosed with diabetes, and the fact that he is only 21 years old himself is scary. I wish him all the best and hope that should I be selected to run for Diabetes UK that my charity work should help him and anyone else with Diabetes.

For those that know me, they will know that I am not the best of eaters. I am as fussy as they come. I don’t touch anything that may be remotely healthy for me but I know this will have to change for me to be able to even think about running the 26.2 miles – let alone the 13 miles in October. I plan to sort myself out some sort of healthy diet that I can manage while training.

That, for now, is it. I plan to use this blog to post my progress (if at all!) and also to try and raise as much money as I can for the charity!