Laura & I are raising money for the British Lung Foundation, in memory of my Dad/Laura's Grandad, much loved and missed, who died on 26th May 2009.  He suffered from COPD, a degenerative lung disease brought on by working in the motor industry for most of his life, and sadly smoking cigarettes!  Having had a slipped disc at the time of his death, I am now fully recovered and decided to start running with Sleaford Striders Athletics Club, who have helped me enormously with my personal training, loads of thanks in particular to Claire & Linda, even if we do get lost on our training routes!!

If I get through this race in one piece, am hoping to enter some more races through the summer!  Unfortunately, Peter, who was going to join us for this race, has had to pull out due to an old knee injury, hope it gets better soon!

And we've done it, Laura in 1:00:27, and I finished in 1:06:43; very pleased with those results for a 1st race!

Donating is easy, so please help us to raise as much money as we can for a worthwhile charity, it will help the patients AND their carers enormously.