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Race for Life – The Event!

Hayley — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:55:19 +0000

Saturday. The Big Day (relatively speaking)

Alex woke with my alarm, said “Todays phrase will be: ‘Sucks To Be You’”, and rolled back over to go back to sleep. With those inspiring words, I got ready.

I was up pretty early, partly from excitement/nerves, but partly because Zoe and James (and Homily!) were due to come round before we went up to the Downs.

Its silly really, I’ve done Race for Life twice before this year, and I felt more nervous for this race, even down to forgetting that I’d need some safety pins!

After a delay at the house, and an even longer one once we got to Clifton (have you ever tried to get a parking space up there when its busy?!), we parked up and headed towards the music that was playing. It was a bit of a hike from the car to the stage area, but we soon met up with Katey and Abbi

Here’s the five of us after the race.

I had left my back sign until the last minute as usual, and kept it simple. While we were waiting to set off, I heard the women behind me whispering “ooh she’s lost her mum” and felt guilty for making them feel bad!

Here’s Zoe and I setting off with Katey and Abbi in front. We were all feeling pretty lazy, so chose to walk. Katey started planning next years Race while we were walking – apparently we’re going to run and dress up in pink tutus. Uh oh.

We did the 5k in about an hour, and met up with Michaela, her mum, her mums friend and her boyfriend who was taking pictures and making videos. I can’t wait to see it! Michaela and her group ran the 5k in half the time it took us to walk it – that’s my aim next year!

As always, each Racer was given a goodie bag and a medal. Zoe’s look extra excited here because they let her have two medals – one for Homily!

As we were doing the final stretch, people were cheering everyone on, but when Homily appeared, there were a lot more cheers for her, so many people saying “Aww, look at the little dog!”

I’m so glad I managed to do the Race this year with a group of friends – it’s a lot easier to keep going with someone by your side! We had Alex and James on cheering duty – sadly they decided they needed to bring cameras with them as well. Cheers guys. (all pics in this post were taken by Alex)

Good luck to everyone that’s still left to do their Races. It seemed like last weekend was race day for my family – I had cousins in Chester and the North East (I think Darlington?) doing it on the Sunday. Yay!

If you’d still like to donate, please visit my Race for Life page at www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c – just because I’ve reached my target of £250 (thank you!) doesn’t mean you don’t have to donate

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Race for Life – A Mini Update

Hayley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:20:42 +0000

A quick little update about Race for Life. I did it! Sadly because I was feeling properly gross, I only walked it, but still did it in an hour.

I’m ~~procrastinating from~~ writing about the day at the moment, but until then, gere’s a pic of Zoe’s dog Homily who accompanied us!

If you’d still like to donate, please visit my Race for Life page at www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c

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Race for Life – The Personal Trainer Experience

Hayley — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:27:01 +0000

So in just under 2 weeks (June 12th!) I’ll be running my Race for Life. Well, I say run…

This has been the extent of my training. Yeah. Great idea. Silly girl.
But! The lovely Jayne at Race for Life has sent me a training plan which might help. She’s sent me the walking album, which at first I was a tad offended by, but then I remembered that I’m a lazy cow, and the running idea last year was er…interesting. (Some might say a failure. Shut up)

Lucy Wyndham-Read, celebrity women’s fitness expert and founder of LWR Fitness, has created two workout albums especially for Race for Life. These albums are designed to give the listener a “personal trainer experience” with a six week plan to get you up to speed to do a 5k.

I’ll be reviewing these tracks over the next fortnight and will let you know what I think!

If you’d like to sponsor me, please visit my Race for Life page at www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c

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Giveaway!

Hayley — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:00:12 +0000

I was sent some really cool stuff from the guys at Race for Life recently, and instead of keeping it for myself, I thought I’d have a little giveaway. Normally most people will have blog giveaways that you enter either by following the blog, or by commenting, etc, but I thought I would do something a little bit different, and hopefully raise some money. (Hey, you don’t get something for nothing in this world. Or something like that. I don’t know, Mum would say that sort of thing, but I usually wasn’t listening)

I’ll be giving the items in the photo above (and I’ll be adding more goodies to it between now and my Race day) to a random donator. For every £5 you donate, you’ll recieve a place in the draw, so donate £20, and you’ve got 4 chances to win!

Theres still quite a bit of time to enter this contest – I’ll be running it until 15th June, to make sure that I can get as much money out of you all as possible for Cancer Research!

So, how to donate? I prefer to use my sponsorship page, which you can find at www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c – its safe, secure, and it means I don’t have to chase after everyone with an envelope begging for money!

If you still want to donate, but don’t want to be entered, please drop me an email to hi [@] ceriselle.org with your details. If you want to donate something to this prize, get in contact!

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Why Take Part?

Hayley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:30:29 +0000

I’ve been asked this question a few times lately when people have heard that I’m doing Race for Life for the third time this year, and I thought it would be a good idea to get it down into words (because my answer is usually “er…to raise money”)

As many of you probably know, my mum died of cancer in December 2005. When she was diagnosed in May 2005, Mum and Dad phoned me to tell me about it. (They were going to come down to Bristol that weekend, but I somehow knew that something was up.) I immediatly assumed the worst, but the doctors had told her that it was a very treatable form of cancer.

Throughout the summer, everyone was very positive, so I began to relax a little and webt back to University in September feeling rather confident that everything was going to be OK.

At the start of December however, we were told a different story. Things were much worse than originally though, and at that point, we were told Mum had about 3 weeks to live (and she managed to keep to that as well – exactly 21 days afterwards, she died)

Anyway.

So the reason why I choose to raise money for Cancer Research is because my thoery is that if Cancer Research recieves more money through things like Race for Life, then more research can be done, not only into things like detecting certain forms of cancer at an earlier stage, but also into different treatments and possible cures. The less people that have to go through what my family did, the better.

However, if I could, I would choose to split my fundraising money between Cancer Research and Macmillan. The Macmillan nurses were pretty good to my mum, and I know she appriciated the help and support that they gave her.

If you’re not itching to give some money to charity, then you can sponsor me to do the Race for Life in June by clicking here (or indeed, why not join me in Bristol on the 12th June by going here) or you can donate to Macmillan via this link

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Race for Life – Come Join Me!

Hayley — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:42:28 +0000

So, remember how the ~~pain. Oh god, the PAIN~~ amazing and fulfilling pleasure that running the Race for Life gave me last year? No, me either. (I lie, it was pretty awesome)

Well, its that time of year again when I debate about running it again, and this time, I’m wondering if anyone else would be interested in joining me?

Race for Life in Bristol is on 12th and 13th June at 11am. The first time that I did Race for Life, I was with a few friends, which is definitely what I missed about running it alone last year!

Don’t worry, I’m not planning on running it this year, more a leisurly jog/stroll/skip. (Skipping works quite well actually. So if you’ll be in Bristol (or thinking about it!) for that weekend, drop me an email [hi (at) ceriselle.org] or leave a comment.

If you don’t fancy coming to Bristol, or want to do it with your own group, check out the Race for Life website.

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Race for Life – the event!

Hayley — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:00:51 +0000

As you probably have guessed by now, I managed not to die from doing the Race for Life recently.
I woke early, to make sure I was on the Downs for 10am, but managed to get there even earlier. Getting up at 8am on a Saturday to go running seems wrong.
Before I left the house, there was a very important thing still to do:

Decorate my back sign! The back sign is quite an important thing for Race for Life, where you say why you are running/walking/hopping/doing the worm.
Here I am with my back sign, dedicated of course, to my Mum.

I didn’t manage to take many pictures while actually running, so here are two pics I TwitPic‘ed to my Twitter

The Nivea boys doing a bit of a cheer routine to S Club 7 – “Reach”. With pom poms. Their mums must be so proud. (It was actually really funny though!)

One of my favourite fancy dress outfits! There was a lot of neon outfits worn, as well as a surprising amount of people wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I was dressed in joggers and a (Howies, of course) t-shirt.
Here’s a basic summation of each KM:
0 – 1 KM: Hey, this is pretty easy. I’m glad this is on the roady part of the Downs.
1 – 2 KM: Still going ok, my back is holding up pretty well considering…
2 – 3 KM: Ooh, starting to get a bit more difficult, but still running.
3 – 4 KM: ARGH PAIN PAIN PAIN – my back decided to give out, so had to walk
4 – 5 KM: Still in a lot of pain, trying to take Ibuprofen while walking, but managed to run the last half kilometre because there was no way I was walking over the finish line!
So I managed to complete it in just under 40 minutes. (Not sure of exact times, since I didn’t even get through the start point until about 6 minutes on the clock!)

Holding my medal for finishing the race!

I’m really pleased I did it, and happy that I managed to run most of it. If you would like to sponsor me still, the webpage is open until August, and that can be found at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c. Thank you so so much to everyone who has sponsored me so far as well!

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Race For Life (part 4)

Hayley — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:28:54 +0000

I wrote this message to my Facebook friends last night who I am trying to persuade to sponsor me as well, and thought I would share it with you as well Don’t worry, I’m not drinking wine at half 12!

Hello lovely people who have sponsored me, ones who haven’t yet done so, and those who can’t (don’t worry, I’m not going to guilt trip you!)

The run is next weekend, and I am of course training hard. Which is to say I am drinking wine right now. Shut up. Thats training.

During my training for this run, I have rediscovered that
a) my back really hates physical exercise.
b) sports bras were invented by sadists and
c) why I was never picked for the running things at school.

But, theres only one week of this hell, and then I will be back on the sofa, seeing what crap is on the Virgin box (ok, I still do that anyway) and feeling pretty damn smug.

If you haven’t sponsored me yet, and you would like to do so, please go to www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c

xxx

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Race For Life (part 3…oops…)

Hayley — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:59:02 +0000

I’m a terrible person.
I promised the amazing people that have sponsored me (which you can do by going to raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c (yes, I’m shameless)) that I would blog my endeavors in training, because it was sure to be hilarious, bearing in mind that I am very lazy, and I really hate running.
I’ve been describing my running style to people as being like Phoebe from Friends. Observe:

OK, so I don’t run that fast (I’d be dead by the end of the road) but the flailing, yep, I do that.

So I’ve been training now reasonably regularly (probably not as much as I should, but apparently I have a social life. And also I’m lazy) and yet I still don’t seem to be able to run for more than 10 minutes before dying because my back is going into spasms. (My original spelling was “spazums”, which makes much more sense)

Its not too long until the race, and I’m half looking forward to it, and half not. I mean, yay, I get to take part and help raise money for one of my favourite charities, but boo, RUNNING HURTS.

You still have time to sponsor me, I know I keep saying it, but please please do! I’m half way to my target of £250, and I’d love to reach that target by the race day. Head over to raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c if you have a few pennies to spare.

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Race for Life (part 2)

Hayley — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:53:30 +0000

So my second week of training for the Race for Life has been non existant – I managed to catch Louise’s lurgy last weekend and have been feeling very sorry for myself! Hopefully with the clocks changing today, I will be more likely to go running after work, because it will be lighter longer.

My running pack arrived this week though, which is pretty quick. My number thing is lower than I thought – I would have expected more people to have signed up by now! The pink sheet is the back sign, which you need to decorate with the reason why you are doing the Race for Life. I want to make mine look awesome this year, but I can’t think what to do!

Sponsorship wise, I’m really pleased because I’m almost half way to my target! If you’ve not sponsored me yet, you can by going to raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c

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Race for Life (part 1)

Hayley — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:55:20 +0000

Me in 2007, after the run in Chester

So after a year off (which was down to my move – when I was in Chester, the event was in Bristol, and when I was in Bristol, it was in Chester!), I have signed up for the Race for Life again. I’m hoping to raise even more money this year, and if you would like to donate, you can do it through my page at raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c.

I decided this year that instead of walking the course, as I did in Chester, I would try to run the entire 5k. Which scares me, since I’m not a running sort of girl. I was never the girl who was on the running teams at school. Instead, I was the girl they put into the swimming gala as a laugh (since I couldn’t actually swim properly) I thought I should probably start to train, and last night was the first time I had put my trainers on since last year (when I used to wear them to walk to work in)

I tied my hair up, clipped my iPod Shuffle on, and set off at an easy jog. I got to the bottom of the road, and thought “Hooooooooly CRAP, I’m gonna do this for 5km?!” I managed to jog/run for about 1km and a bit, before having to slow down, because my back was hurting so much. In total I did 2.5km, which was much more than I intended to do!

Today, my thighs and legs are aching like crazy. I ache so much! But hopefully the more training I do, the less I ache, and the more likely that I’ll do the full 5k!

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