AB2U Blog

By: Dianne Beer

Just five days to go…

….until the Cancer Research UK’s City of London Race for Life 2008 when Kathryn and I will be fun running around the city in aid of Cancer Research UK.

If you would like to come and cheer us along, we would love this! It is amazing how much a friendly face in the crowd cheering you on, especially at the half way mark, gives you a sudden extra burst of energy!

Date: Sunday 1st June 2008
Time: 11.00am (so you can even still have a lie in!)
Location: City of London, EC1A 9PQ
Contact details: You can reach me on 07747 800 740
(but don’t expect me to answer between 11.00am and 12.00pm when I will be either running or recovering!)

Kathryn and I always try to raise at least £100.00 per event between us, more if possible, for the race charity or one of our choice. We all have our own reasons for supporting certain charities and Cancer Research is one very close to my own heart, so I always enjoy running for ‘someone else’s life’ and raising money. If you would like to sponsor us please click here to visit our special sponsor page for this event.

Cancer research has set up a Donation Station. This allows you to bring along a bag full of items that you no longer need, which can then be sold in Cancer Research shops across the UK to help fund research. Nearly all the unwanted items that I have, I either hand in directly to my local Oxfam in Notting Hill on a Saturday morning or put them in the Giant Clothes Banks just off Portobello road, but I did a quick wardrobe ‘wrecky’ this Sunday and found some items I can happily part with before the moths come for dinner! You can put all sorts in these bags; clothes, bags, shoes, accessories, home ware, CDs and DVDs, so if you have stuff cluttering up your home bring it along when you come to support us and pop it in our Abenefit2u Donation Station bag. Cancer Research will get up to £8.00 for used mobile phone handsets! (but they do not accept chargers).

Thank you in anticipation for your support and for taking the time to read our Fun Run for Charity blog, we look forward to posting the photographs, telling you how we got on and how much we raised for charity on this occasion very soon…

By: Dianne Beer

How the years fly by…. It seems like only a few months ago Kathryn and I were taking part in this fun run, but it was in fact a year ago!

Despite cold weather and even a bit of rain last year (Never! Rain in England in June!) we really enjoyed this run, so we are really looking forward to doing it again this year. I have a sneaky suspicion this is also because after we had finished our run last year we attended the Marie Curie After Party hosted in a nearby hotel for all their charity runners. I have never lost and put on weight so quickly! I defiantly lost quite a few pounds during the race, but sadly put back double very quickly enjoying the buffet.

We are supporting the same charity again this year, one that, as you may know by now, is close to our heart; Marie Curie Cancer Care, the Daffodil Team!. It is a super cause and they are a very well organised charity who really do all they can to make if ‘fun for fundraisers’. The bright yellow daffodil vests are designed so that you can write your name on the front and back. This means all the daffodil supporters along the route are able to shout out your name and really encourage and spur you on to the end…

I am still not entirely convinced about running along with daffodil antennae on my head, so I may be telling Kathryn that they are too tight again this year! Either my age or vanity preventing me or both! Unless someone offers me a significant charity donation to wear them for the entire race?!

As you can see from the photo after last years race, Kathryn was brave enough to wear the offending articles!

If you would like to sponsor us for this race please click here to link to our special sponsorship page.

If you would like to come and support us on the day, this would be wonderful, and we will do our best to sneak you into the Daffodil After Party Sssssshhhhhhh!

Details:
Date: Sunday 6th July 2008
Time: 9.35 am start (no lie on this Sunday!)
Locations: Start: Hyde Park Corner. Finish: Buckingham Palace

Bill Turnbull (a presenter for BBC Breakfast since 2001) is a regular member of the Daffodil Team, first running for them in the BUPA Great North Run. Our mission is to try and find Bill Turnbull and get a photograph!