Charity Chosen and Last Weeks Progress

Charity Choice

From the start of this journey i decided i was going to raise money for a Charity, as it's the first time i am doing this distance.

I have done similar previously raising money when i did Wolverhampton Marathon in 2009 and also raising money when i did London Triathlon (my first Olympic distance) back in 2010.

Previously i have raised money for the Cardiomyopathy association. this is a small charity that does work with people with Cadiomyopathy, a heart problem that sadly killed a close friend a few years ago. So it was a Charity close to me.

This year for the Ironman I have decided to change the charity i raise for, mainly to spread the generous money I receive off people to other needy causes.

I thought about depression charities, after recently a school friend committed suicide and I have also known a lot of people go through depression, which is still a very much misunderstood condition.

But in the end I have decided, i will raise the most money for a local charity. In fact i have chosen a charity that is very local to me (about half a mile down the road). I have chosen to raise sponsorship for Compton Hospice.

Compton Hospice is a local hospice that covers a lot of the local area, including Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, South Staffordshire and East Shropshire. There purpose is to make a difference to people’s lives when their illness is no longer curable. They do this by treating people, not conditions, whether their needs are physical, psychological, social or spiritual.

(Information taken directly from the Compton Hospice website http://www.compton-hospice.org.uk/)

There will be a link to a Justgiving.com web page soon when I have created it, that I will be posting in each blog. I am hoping to raise as close to £1000 as possible. previously for other charities I have raised £800ish and with this being a much bigger undertaking I hope to raise more this time.


Weekly progress

I am trying to make convince myself to write this weekly progress more regularly, as at the end of the day this is what the blog is about. Hopefully i will find some stuff that's interesting to write about! ha ha.

Last week went well again! Long Bike and Long Run are the main focus for most my training up to the Ironman and they went well this weekend. 3 hours 5 minutes on the turbo trainer got me to 90km on Saturday morning (the half way mark for the bike) and i felt pretty good after to.

Then Sunday morning I ran for 1 hours 50mins, exactly 15 miles which according to the McMillan run calculator, that would give me a 3:23 marathon time!! Which is a great surprise and taken with a pinch of salt at the moment. Obviously I will not be aiming for that time after the Bike and Run... but it might be useful later on in the year (watch this space)

So overall I did 16 hours this week, easily my biggest week so far... hoping to keep up the consistency of the last 3 weeks and keep getting stronger, fitter and further.