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Welcome to the 7 in 7 in 7 Blog!
Four colleagues from Igloo Books are undertaking the ultimate challenge starting on April 16th. The 4 workmates from Igloo Books in Sywell will each run 7 marathons in 7 days in 7 Countries, starting with a marathon in Paris on April 16th, and culminating with the gruelling London Marathon on April 22nd. In between these 2 marathons, each of the four will be running a marathon in Luxembourg, Brussels, Cologne, Amsterdam and Cardiff. None of the runners are professional runners by any means! They are merely amateur hobby runners with a huge desire to complete the challenge and raise over £50k for the Prince’s Trust in Northamptonshire.
This blog is to check on training progress, and how the runners are getting on during their week of hell!!
The 4 colleagues (John Styring – MD / Jonny Illingworth - US Sales Manager / Dean Cornish – International Sales Manager / Mark Burge – Head of UK Sales) all trained hard during much of 2011, having completed the Paris marathon together in April 2011, before then making the huge step up to completing 2 marathons in 2 days in 2 Countries in October. The group finished the Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday 30th October, before flying across to Ireland and completing the Dublin Marathon on Hallow’een the following day.... A truly frightening experience! Managing Director, John Styring, managed to complete Frankfurt in 3.59 and then amazingly beat his time the following day in Dublin, finishing in an superb time of 3.49. Since the start of 2012, all 4 of the runners have spent a huge amount of their own time training for the event, running an average of 40 miles each per week. Nothing can really prepare you though for a week of running 183.4 miles through 7 different Countries.
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Sponsorship Update – £48, 356 raised to date!
April 25, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 Challenge, Uncategorized
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Day 7 – London
April 23, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Day 7 – London. What an amazing end to one hell of a week! The seventh day in this unique challenge was quite different to the previous 6. Usually, we would awake at 5am and have the marathon finished between 11 and 12.30. Today was going to be quite different, joining another 40,000 like-minded [...]
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Day 6. Cardiff.
April 21, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Day 6. Nearly there! All 4 horses still in the running. Perhaps we all expected today to be worse than it was, although Mark might disagree. [...] Continue Reading…
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Day 5 – Amsterdam
April 20, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Forget everything we’ve written so far. The Challenge started today. We have all just finished and there are 4 broken men. We know Paul will do his [...] Continue Reading…
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Day 4. Brussels.
April 19, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Day 4. Is it only that? Brussels. 135,200 steps done – each. ‘Only’ 101,400 – each – to go. Quite a big ask [...] Continue Reading…
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Day 3 – Cologne
April 18, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Day 3. Cologne. Complete but we aren’t even half way! What was wrong with 4 in 4 or even 5 in 5?!! The muscles are now getting [...] Continue Reading…
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Day 2 – Luxembourg
April 17, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Day 2. Luxembourg. Complete. The day started cold and gloves would have been very much preferred by all the team. Starting at 6 am before the sun [...] Continue Reading…
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One down! Successful start in Paris
April 16, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Well, thankfully we’ve had a successful start to our epic challenge. Today, the whole team completed the first 26.2 miles in Paris, as we look to complete 7 marathons [...] Continue Reading…
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One down! Successful start in Paris
April 16, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet Well, thankfully we’ve had a successful start to our epic challenge. Today, the whole team completed the first 26.2 miles in Paris, as we look to complete 7 marathons [...] Continue Reading…
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Fundraising Update – £41,889 pledged to date!
April 15, 2012 By John Styring in 7in7 ChallengeTweet You have very very generously supported us to the value of £41,889. How amazing is that! Thank you very much for your generosity. This challenge is [...] Continue Reading…
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