Philip Conway
Phil & Fiona London Marathon 2010
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Phil & Fiona's Marathon Story
UPDATE: We both completed the marathon; Fiona in 4hrs 58 and Phil in 4hrs - and even managed to go out for a few drinks and dinner in the evening, although James may have been rather bored by us recalling the day's events!
Thanks to all our friends and family who supported us during our training, sponsored us with their hard earned cash and came along and supported us on the day. We are very grateful to you all, a huge thanks from both of us. Don't worry, we don't plan to do another one (any time soon).....
As many of our friends and family will know we started running fairly late in life but have found something we both really enjoy (sort of!). After moving to Monmouth we joined a local running club and have continued to run ever since, we ran the Cardiff Half Marathon a couple of times and flew to Vienna in April 2009 to complete the Vienna Half Marathon.
We both entered the London Marathon ballot in April 2009 but sadly neither of us got a place so were pleased to hear that our running club (Spirit of Monmouth RC) had one place allocated to them. After a nail bitting secret ballot draw Fiona was lucky enough to get a place. This spurred Phil on to approach The Shaw Trust to see if he could run for them and fortunately they were delighted to have him on board.
The Shaw Trust is a national charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people to prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently. They believe everyone has the right to work and have campaigned for over 25 years to turn their vision into a reality.
We are both very aware that you have many requests for charity donations and we appreciate that these are hard financial times. With this in mind, we really appreciate any donations and they will be very gratefully received both by us and The Shaw Trust.
March Update: We are now in the final stages of our training having both completed a 20 mile race in Ashby de la Zouche last weekend - we were both pleased with our times and it has encouraged us that the 26.2 miles is perhaps within our sights (sort of). We have one final long run to complete next weekend (22 miler) and then it's taper time which means that we will ramp down our mileage and start eating a lot of carbohydrates.
If anyone fancies cheering us on during the event we would be equally grateful and will most definitely be in need of a little support during those 26.2 miles.
We'll let you all know how we get after 25th April 2010.
Love Phil and Fiona x
UPDATE: We both completed the marathon; Fiona in 4hrs 58 and Phil in 4hrs - and even managed to go out for a few drinks and dinner in the evening, although James may have been rather bored by us recalling the day's events!
Thanks to all our friends and family who supported us during our training, sponsored us with their hard earned cash and came along and supported us on the day. We are very grateful to you all, a huge thanks from both of us. Don't worry, we don't plan to do another one (any time soon).....
As many of our friends and family will know we started running fairly late in life but have found something we both really enjoy (sort of!). After moving to Monmouth we joined a local running club and have continued to run ever since, we ran the Cardiff Half Marathon a couple of times and flew to Vienna in April 2009 to complete the Vienna Half Marathon.
We both entered the London Marathon ballot in April 2009 but sadly neither of us got a place so were pleased to hear that our running club (Spirit of Monmouth RC) had one place allocated to them. After a nail bitting secret ballot draw Fiona was lucky enough to get a place. This spurred Phil on to approach The Shaw Trust to see if he could run for them and fortunately they were delighted to have him on board.
The Shaw Trust is a national charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people to prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently. They believe everyone has the right to work and have campaigned for over 25 years to turn their vision into a reality.
We are both very aware that you have many requests for charity donations and we appreciate that these are hard financial times. With this in mind, we really appreciate any donations and they will be very gratefully received both by us and The Shaw Trust.
March Update: We are now in the final stages of our training having both completed a 20 mile race in Ashby de la Zouche last weekend - we were both pleased with our times and it has encouraged us that the 26.2 miles is perhaps within our sights (sort of). We have one final long run to complete next weekend (22 miler) and then it's taper time which means that we will ramp down our mileage and start eating a lot of carbohydrates.
If anyone fancies cheering us on during the event we would be equally grateful and will most definitely be in need of a little support during those 26.2 miles.
We'll let you all know how we get after 25th April 2010.
Love Phil and Fiona x