Mission Statement

Welcome my little blog, my name is Martin Hookway and this blog is a way for me to log my personal thoughts & views as I am attempting to complete personal & physical challenges each year with other like minded people.

The next Challenge's:

LONDON MARATHON (21st April 2013)
EDINBURGH MARATHON (26th May 2013)
YORKSHIRE MARATHON (20th Oct 2013)

THE ADIDAS THUNDER RUN 24 hour Race
#PROJECT100in24 (27th to 28th July)

I will be running as usual with GPS with Runkeeper & tweeting as I run on @TEAMB_O_B as long as I have phone coverage so all your support will be gratefully received.

I am currently funraising for Rainbow Trust so please dig deep if you can to help this amazing charity.

Rainbow Trust is a Children’s Charity that provides emotional and practical support to
families when their child has a life threatening or terminal illness; immediate
help is available for families 24 hours a day. Support is offered from diagnosis
through treatment and, should a family become bereaved, we continue to support
them for as long as they need us. They help family members cope with the present
and prepare them for the future.
So please dig deep & help this great charity, just think £10 is a meal at KFC so by donating £10 you will not only be helping yourself but you'll also be helping others ;o)

Cheers for taking the time to read my blog, its greatly apreciated, fingers crossed it will bring a smile to your face. My challenges never quite go to plan... ENJOY.

Friday 3 June 2011

TRAINING STARTS (ISH)

Training has officially started, albeit a little unorthodox. I started with getting my backside into the gym and booking myself into The Selby Great Charity Ride, a 40 mile ride with 1000+ riders of all ages & abilities.  This was set to be a casual training ride, BUT in true Team BOB style I'd double booked it with my & my cousins birthday weekend. Copious amounts of booze over 2 days of solid drinking is not the best prep for a charity ride to say the least! As promised though I dragged my self away from the party at midnight and walked home. The alarm went off at silly o'clock in the morning & I dragged my backside out of bed, donned the Lycra and set of riding the 17 miles to get to the start point. Meeting up with a friend we made our way to packed  start line. HANGING would be a very good descriptive word sum up the scene. I could have charged alcoholics to lick my face!!!  



Riding with a hangover is not cool kids!

Needless to say I never kept up with the intended pace & was dropped by the push to get to the lead pack after only 8 miles. A very windy day with plenty of open space took it toll but after a hard but enjoyable ride my hangover had gone.

The Great Selby Charity Ride

It was a very well organised ride that enabled riders of all ages & abilities to ride together without any segregation or problems, well apart from one incident when a young lad decided to swerve his bike side to side just as we went around him missing us by inches. To be honest the only real problem was after finishing the ride I had another 17 miles to ride home (into a gruelling head wind) and that HURT!!! Lesson learnt???

A very hard windy ride home
That week I was talked into entering a race, a running race! I had not run since school competitively, an I had certainly not run 10K EVER! I had 9 days to train so I donned a pair of running shoes & set out over the Moors for my first 5K, IT KILLED ME!!! too much too soon? I think so.

Lowering my miles to start with I continued to run, slowly building them up to 7K. The race night came and we set off, lining up with club athletes I felt like a fish out of water & I was worried id pushed myself too far up the starting line.

I dropped to the side to let the "more competent" runners by. Before I know it a timing car pushed its way through the crowd & the start gun went off. Standing on everyone around me I soon got myself some space to run & surprising to me I was overtaking people, I was worried that I'd set off too fast but felt comfortable so kept the pace. To my shock I continued to pass people and even had a bit of energy at the end to sprint the last 200m. A pleasing time for my first 10K I thought (1.49) then the official timing marshal tapped me on the shoulder "1.48 dead young man well done" it must have taken me 1 WHOLE min to cross the line, AN I was called a young man, RESULT I thought! I hung around for my mate Ian who had talked me into this run, so glad I did as I got this pic of him crossing the line, oh & yes the wheelchair runner was running the race too, not quite sure where along the course they started as they did not start from the start line with everyone else, but is was a welcome light hearted moment as I passed them at about the 7K mark.

Ian's in the red
Askern 10K route
A very enjoyable night that resulted in me booking my place to the next meet at Ferry Bridge 10K which I run this Sunday 6th June. Again not he best prep for it as I have been all go with setting up the Kids Club & after a stressful week my Brother (now also on twitter @adamhookway ) has turned up with beer in hand, this weekend looks like another "leaning curve".


Have a great Weekend

Martin


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