A Christmas Challenge

Stan 22/10/2012 2

Hi folks,

Thanks for reading. I mentioned in my last post, I was creating my own challenge over Christmas. Well here it is! I’ve named it ‘The 12 Days of Christmas‘ and I’ll be running 60 miles over the 12 days to raise money for Percy Hedley. They’re celebrating 60 years in 2013, hence the decision to run 60 miles. Each day, I’ll be running to a different location in the North East of England. For example, on the 8th day, I’ll be running 10 miles to Lanchester Dairies to celebrate 8 Maids-a-Milking.

I’m asking everyone for support, not only for donations but to run some miles with me. I openly admit I’m not a brilliant runner so I’ll need you to make this happen! It’s also going to be freezing cold and probably the last thing I’ll want to do at 7am is get up and run but it’s all for a good cause. I’ve had tremendous support so far which is nice.

I have a schedule for the 12 days over on my personal blog at Father Fitness. Please have a look and see if you can help me. Please also help spread the word and lets finish this year with a bang.

Thanks again,

TAGS » 12 days, 60 miles, 60 years, challenge, christmas, percy hedley

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Following the birth of his son in 2009, Stan felt unfit and sluggish. Since then he's been training using a range of exercise techniques and gained some valuable information over the years. He concentrated on using ideas and methods from the teachings of Paul Chek, Chuck Wolf, Dax Moy, Charles Poliquin, Martin Rooney and Phil Richards. His fitness training currently includes running, kettlebell training, the world famous TRX, Olympic bar training, different types of body weight exercises, medicine balls, interval training (Tabata training) and cross fit training. He has completed the Pier To Pier run, Total Warrior and the Newcastle Stampede in 2012. He also raised over £1000 for local charity Percy Hedley, by running 60 miles over the 12 Days of Christmas.

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John 05/11/2012 at 8:23 am - Reply

Awesome idea! Good luck Stan
Sally 12/11/2012 at 1:06 pm - Reply

Sounds great. I hope you meet your target and all the best.

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