Tag: tree-athlon
Goal Set Met
Saturday 20 September 2008, 4:57 pm
Today, Joanne and I ran the Tree-Athlon, a 5k in Battersea Park.
My goal for the run was to run in in 30 minutes. I came in at 30:01, but giving all the faffing about at the starting line — it was at least 30 seconds before there was room enough to run — I’m [...]
Give Us Your Money (for the trees)
Monday 25 August 2008, 8:38 pm
Joanne and I are going to be running again in the Trees for Cities Tree-Althlon.
You may remember that we did it last year and actually managed to finish, despite the fact that neither of us had ever run before.
We’re going to do it again. We’re going to run to raise money to support Trees [...]
I have a tree!
Thursday 1 November 2007, 7:05 am
About a month and a half ago, we did the Tree-althlon 5k. Thanks to everyone who supported us by donating some money. The money we brought in allowed us to gift a tree to somebody. Joanne decided to gift it to me (have I mentioned I like trees?).
Last night, I came home [...]
We did it!
Saturday 15 September 2007, 11:41 am
We ran the 5k. Well, most of it. We ran around 4.25k with .75k of walking towards the middle of the course. Not too bad for a couple of people that were having trouble running more than a minute just a few months ago.
Thanks too everyone who sponosored us. [...]
T-shirt Love and Podrunning
Thursday 6 September 2007, 11:43 pm
My brother Mike (a.k.a. Mambrino) has launched a new blog. The new blog is to help him commit to several life-style changes. The goal is to get fighting fit again. He’s tied this into his love of T-shirts, and I’ve been having some fun recommending T-shirts that would make ideal gifts for [...]
