Introduction - Half in 130

In May 2012 I was little over 1 year from reaching sixty years old and I decided to try to mark the occasion with a better than 60min completion of the Great Manchester Run 10K (story at 60@60). Before that I had last run in 1976 in a 1.5ml cross country race for leaders in a south Manchester scouting event.
Well I did it, 58:18, and thoroughly enjoyed the day. What had been expected to be a one-off resulted in me growing to love running and since then I have completed several 10Ks and enjoy my local parkrun.

So, now 5 years later, it's my 65th birthday in May and I decided to try for the Great Manchester Run Half Marathon to celebrate. Time isn't really important but as the Half is around twice a 10K I'm going for twice my age so 130 mins.

My next post will be an update on progress so far.

Sponsorship

I am embarrassed to ask for sponsorship when just doing something I enjoy but this one is hurting and taking a lot of will power to maintain training so I feel ok asking people for sponsorship to give me that extra push and this is a great cause.

If you would like to support this amazing organisation feel free to do it via my JustGiving page below.
Running for St. Ann's Hospice in memory of Margaret Donovan (Mum) and Sheila Waddington.