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.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

RED BULL STEEPLE CHASE

Firstly can I welcome all you 1st timers to my little blog, if you want a bit of a feel of what to expect from the next couple of months then check out the "Past Challenges" Tab at the top of the page, it'll put a smile on your face if nothing else, if you know know me in "real life" or off of Twitter (@TEAMB_O_B) you'll know that I'm a bit of accident waiting to happen so challenges never quite go to plan!

Anyway back to the job in hand... Apologies for the lack of posts, (excuses out of the way first) without boring you I have been drowned in paperwork to get my business re opened *cough* & errr decorating, (end of excuses). So why am I asking you read my blog I hear you ask? Well I'm back to my mad ways & have a couple of challenges coming up you may be interested in supporting me with.

I received a free copy of runners world in a race pack & saw this advert:


Only 250 lucky runners! A Race over the hills of the Peak District across fields, through forests, fields while taking in some of the fantastic views on offer before taking on final hill of the Peak District! WOW!!! The only way of describing how this made me fell upon reading is like being a kid in a sweat shop wanting the golden ticket for Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Never in a month of Sundays did I think I'd win a place but posted off my "I should be chosen because (in 100 words) form" & in true Charlie & the Chocolate Factory style a few weeks after I got a knock on the door by the Postman & handed a parcel.


Oh crap! I'd been chosen!!! I was one of the 250!!! I will not lie to you I'm very excited yet very nervous. This will be a knock out race, the back (slowest) 20% of the running field will be knocked out at each checkpoint. only 30 men & 10 women will finish the whole race. Looking at the starting line up there are some MACHINES racing this. Runners who have been fell running for years & people who run Ultra Marathons on a regular basis. Than as per usual there is little old me who's been running only a year & has upped his miles & pushed himself to complete bigger & harder challenges far too soon. BRING IT ON!!! That's how I like it, I like being the under dog, the one out of his depth, it puts hairs on ya chest.

I've been training on & off since the Arthur's Seat 12hr Challenge, I've picked up the odd niggle, Lost my running Mojo then re found it again with the help from Twitter friends & a "real life" friend & new running buddy @rustyw5 who has just started running, (I wish I could take credit for how fast he's coming on) but with all that aside I also managed to set new PB's in 5k & Half Marathon so I cant grumble. This however is new territory, I've raced Trial Races & trained over the Moors but all of these have been flat. I have only ever ran in hills like these during RelayGB but all routes were on roads & during a training session with @mrafletch, @m8dk, @mikew30, & a couple of Mikes family. This run was a recky for the HighPeak40 Ultra The guys ran 20 miles of while I had to drop back after 10 then pull out at 14miles due to stomach & leg cramps, the hills killled me off, all that I want is not to get knocked out after the first checkpoint. I will never finish the race as it expected to be won in 2hr 15mins, 21 miles over 1400 meter climbs through the Hills in 2hr 15mins!!! I on the other hand  would struggle to run 21 miles on the road in under 4 hours so you can see what I'm up against. My aim is to go hell for leather up the 1st hill & put everything into making the 1st checkpoint. After the 1st checkpoint I'll hopefully be putting Red Bulls theory to the wind & crossing my fingers that it does give me bloody wings as my legs will be in bits by then.

Oh did I mention it was on the 7th OCTOBER (that's this Sunday) ???

;o)


I have other challenges coming up including an attempt at an Ultra Marathon (50 Miles) & the London Marathon but will post seperate blogs in the near future about these.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post & dont forget I'm doing all this for a good cause so dig deep or at least share my post with your friends.

MARTIN

3 comments:

  1. Good stuff Martin, looked like a VERY tough challenge this one. I look forward to reading your race report!

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  2. Thank you very much for your kind words, ill try to get the race report up today while the pain is still fresh ;o)

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  3. It’s hard to find knowledgeable people Childcare Seven Hills but you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks for sharing this with others.

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