Online a week

Well the blogs officially been online a week, and we now have three signed up to start blogging on training and why we are taking part in this potentially stupid challenge!!
It seems training is slowly starting for all of us, but thought Id just post strange fact of the week.

Although we've not had a lot of sponsorship so far, the blog is officially international, with views not only in the UK, but also in Japan, and Hungary! Just shows how far the NRAS charity are starting to reach, so lets hope we get loads of sponsorship to help the NRAS help out more and more sufferers of RA along with their families.

I am up and running!!!!!!!!!

Training run

Hello all thought I would try this blog thing out just so people know a bit of background about me etc I'm darrens bro and got into running when I came down to london to watch Darren in the royal parks half 2 or 3 years ago from that moment I decided I thought I could give it a go since then I ran the sports releif 6 miles, the evesham 10k and have now moved onto half marathons I have no intentions on moving up to the full marathon I'm just happy with the level I'm at. I have so far done 2 halts my first was Bristol in 2010 which I completed in 2 hours 7 mins and then my 2nd was last month at the bath half, which was quoted as pancake flat ye ok that was a complete lie, I did get a new pb of 2 hours and 5. I am now in training for Tewkesbury half on the 22nd may before obviously the main event of the royal parks. Training is going really well so far last week I did a 5 and half mile run on Tuesday and a 4.8 on Thursday aswel as my 2 games of football a week. This week on Tuesday I again did my 4.8 mile route which is 50% road running followed by 50% cross country and managed this in a really good time of 42 mins so was really pleased with that. Today was the big one though I managed a 6 mile hill run up Bredon hill which is not easy at all and completed this in 1 hour 4 mins there was quite a few walking moments on the steep incline. Any way I am going to stop rambling on and will keep you up to date with how things are going hope everyone is getting some training inane good luck all.

Hello and welcome

Hi everyone

Well this is just a quick hello to say welcome to our blog. We are a group of (ahem!) athletes that will be taking part between us in two half marathons on behalf of the NRAS (the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society). In the months in the build up we will be blogging about why we do this, why the NRAS, how are we going to achieve this, and just how painful is it!

I hope you enjoy our blogs and by following us through this, will be encouraged to join in either taking part, raising awareness of Rheumatoid Arthritis, or by going onto our fundraising page (link at the bottom, but if you cant find it) http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Marathoninamonth

Thanks for reading
Darren