Sports Relief – 21st March 2010

Sport Relief at Forest Green Rovers

Hannah Smith, Fitness Instructor and Cotswold Allrunners have joined forced to organise the Stroud & Nailsworth contingent of the National Charity Event, Sport Relief.

For details of the event please visit our Sport Relief page which contains all the information you need to enter and about the venue

Sport Relief is back, and this time it’s from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st March. The whole of the UK will come together to get active, raise cash and change lives.

It has a unique history of dedicated people doing extraordinary things to make a difference – from David Walliams’ swim across the English Channel, to Eddie Izzard’s amazing marathon a day around the UK.

And that’s not to mention

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Mary is addicted to running

Hi, I am Mary Holba and 100th Cotswold Allrunners member.

So where did it all begin.  Well, I didn’t start running until I was 43 years of age.  Yes, I’d done other things of course, hiking, cycling, tennis and gym work! 

Then one day I found myself sitting in a café with a friend who was in the recovery stages of a long illness and she asked me if I would train with her for the Stroud Half Marathon, it was January and the half marathon seemed too long off to worry about so I agreed.

   Motivation  

To my surprise my friend kept me on a training schedule and I soon realised she was serious.

Unfortunately she did not run the Stroud Half Marathon due to an injury sustained whilst training so I ran it alone but by then the damage was done!

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Longleat 10K – 7th February 2010

February 7th seemed a perfect morning to be chased by Lions around the Longleat Estate. The six annual running of this event saw just over 800 compete, which included 8 Cotswold Allrunners travel to Longleat Safari Park, NR Warminster in Wiltshire. This annual event is organised by 209 Events in the private estate of Longleat. A notable performance was came from Briony who had awful toothache and due to painkiller felt very ill on the journey to her first ever race. Luckily amateur athletes are tested for high level of ibuprofen and antibiotics.

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London Marathon from helper to runner

Cotswold Allrunners member, Angie Ayling, is running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon in aid of the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre, Higys Heroes.

Angie had been one of the great baggage lorry helpers, which get your kit back to you at the end of the marathon.  Rest assured they are armed with vision, that spots your racing number from a great distance and by the time you reach one of the 90 Kit Lorries, where the familiar sight of your own possessions to be handed back to you is quite wonderful.

 Inspiration is ….. 
 “Giving an 80 year London Marathon 
 finishers their running kit back at the finish line” 

As with such any big event, and certainly with the London Marathon, the 3rd largest participant sporting event in the world, the atmosphere grabs you and gives you a massive adrenaline rush.  This was case with Angie Ayling of Cotswold Allrunners as she helped on a baggage lorry at the finish line in 1999 & 2000, seeing people aged 80 and over coming to collect their kit bags from her.

“This got my mind thinking, I wonder if I could do it”

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Kate’s ultimate challenge to date

Cotswold Allrunner, Kate McEvoy, a practice nurse in Stroud has made the biggest decision of her life, well other than giving birth to her little stars, Ewan and Lara, by joining the Higgy’s Heroes Team at the Virgin 2010 London Marathon.  After the Stroud Half Marathon 2008, her coach asked her about future running goals, the answer was ‘London Marathon 2010‘.

   After a tough year in my personal life, the marathon seems an obvious progression  

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