On Saturday I did a treadmill marathon in the main entrance area of the Bentalls Centre in Kingston town centre. This was another fundraiser to support Shooting Star CHASE Childrens Hospice (SSC), and was planned before I had done the 4 marathons in 24hrs challenge last month, I was just hopeful I would have recovered enough to run another marathon, thankfully recovery had gone ok since the 16th/17th April's BIG run.
I was meant to start the run at 10am, but we couldn't actually get the treadmill going, so about 12:00 my wife took the kids for a McDonalds as a treat, when they came back we managed to get the treadmill going. I kind of wished I had eaten a McDonalds as well as I could hear my stomach rumbling. So about 12:20 I asked my son to start the treadmill for me, which he duly did and whizzed me upto 17kmh (bit too fast!!!!).
The centre had been a bit quiet in the morning but it really started to get busy as the afternoon went by, people were interested in the info board SSC had put up about my 4 Marathons in 24hrs last month and also about what I was doing to-day as well. I was lucky as a whole load of volunteers from SSC were on hand for the duration to stand with collection buckets and answer peoples questions about what/why/how etc.
Plenty of teenagers asking how far I was running, or how far a Marathon was, one lad, when I told him how far 4 marathons was told me I was 'Hench', not sure if that is good or bad!! The run I knew was going to tough mentally as I really don't like treadmill running, and it certainly made me ache in different areas to normal, or possibly just that this was the furthest I had run in over a month. The run itself passed without too much drama, although the last 10k took foorreevveerr to go past. I was glad that a few friends popped along during the afternoon to show there support, which was really appreciated.
Total time for the run 3hrs47mins (seemed a lot, lot longer), and I have just found out to-day that we raised £1,010 in total, which is fantastic. Another good fundraising event for SSC.
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