Well, Sunday 11th March finally arrived marking the day of my attempted world record of the "Fastest Half Marathon dressed as a Nurse (Female)"  All I had to do was run 13.1 miles, dressed in a nurses uniform in under 2 hours! Simples!  Hmmmmmm.......

As usual the pre race nerves kicked in....even worse than normal as this time I couldnt just blend into insignificance as I was going to look like a blimmin LOONY!  Lucky for me everyone at the Friends of Mick and Phil Half Marathon were absolutely wonderful!  I had some great "nurse quips" along the 13.1 mile course, lots of smiles and lots of encouragement.  I would recommend this race to anyone, such a great atmosphere :D  

I set off rather quickly and had to "calm this shit down whitlock" and get into a nice rhythm before I blew up! So I settled down to a 8:30 min/mile thinking that would give me a bit of bunce towards the end of the race.  I did start to tire towards the end but apart from one mile I managed to keep under 9mins/mile and averaged 8:38 mins/mile over the whole run!  Which gave me a finish time of.......
1:53:53
WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!! WELL IN!

Full results of the winners are on the GUESS THE FINISHING TIME page

So now All I need to do is collate all the Evidence of the run and send off to the Guinness World Records and hopefully before long I will have Official Confirmation that Myton Nurses are the best in the world!  Well the fastest anyway lol!

BIG Thankyou to the Race Directors, Tess and Noel who were so encouraging and provided witness statements :D

Well my JUST GIVING PAGE stands at 95% right now and I have yet to add the Nuneaton Ropewalk Collection of £417.00!!  So that will take me over my target which is very exciting!!  But id like to carry on and raise as much money as I can so if you havent donated yet please consider taking part in my GUESS THE FINISHING TIME competition for the Marathon!  For just £1.00 you could win some amazing prizes!
Another big SHOUT OUT to Mark at Sporting Touch, Nuneaton for printing my Nurses Tunic ready for the race on Sunday!  It looks BRILLIANT! :D

Ive just noticed.....Donations stand at.....£1477.48!!  The minimum amount I have to raise to take part in the Bike Challenge is £1450.00....SOOOOOO!!!  Ive MADE IT!  I am actually going to be cycling the mountain you can see in the video!  OH DEAR GOD!!!

THANKYOU to everyone who has donated so far and I hope people will continue to support me so I can reach my personal target of £2000.00 :D  although lets not stop there hey!  The only limit is you guys! ;o)

On a lighter note I am in possesion of my Nurses Tunic all ready for next weeks run!!  As if running a half marathon is not crazy enough I can categorically say that I am going to look like a blimmin lunatic in this get up hahaha!  So please if you havent already.....make a donation and GUESS MY FINISHING TIME!  You never know....you could get lucky!

And from the sublime to the ridiculous....I think I got a bit overexcited by the sunny day today and decided Id cycle home in my shorts!  Well after 20 mins I had to stop and stick my legwarmers back on lol!  It might be nice in the day but it still gets chilly quite quickly in the evening.....shorts!!! Hmmmmm we are not quite there yet lol!

Donations still continue to trickle in!  THANKYOU KINDLY PEOPLE! :D
Id still appreciate everyone sharing my blog / facebook page to help spread the word.....
The 1/2 Marathon is looming so only a couple of weeks to get your predicted finishing time in for the "Guess the Finishing Time" Competition! so come along people.... ;o)
I have finally heard from the Guinness book of world records about the time required to break the record for the Fastest Half Marathon dressed as a nurse!  2hours!  Im in with a chance!  I need to be able to find some "independent Witnesses" for the day though to sign a statement that I did indeed run the race!  So if you know anyone from a running club or such like who may be interested in helping me, please let me know :o)
And if this is not enough to be getting on with.....I am cycling in Nuneaton Ropewalk on Saturday 3rd March!  PHEW!!!

What a fantastic day we had at the Clocktowers shopping centre at Rugby.  THANKYOU to all the generous people who donated on the day and good luck to all of those who entered the Guess the Finishing TIme Competition!  We have quite a lot of guesses now :D
We had a great day and I think everyone enjoyed meeting Monty Bear.  I managed to cycle 5 hrs non-stop and it was worth the brilliant amount raised towards the charity challnege and ultimately the Nurse Appeal. :D 
The money will be paid into the JUSTGIVING Account by the end of this week so we will have a nice little boost to the total!

The HALF MARATHON competition prizes are all confirmed now so when you make a donation and predict my finishing time the closest guess will win.......First Prize - closest time to the Official Chip time
The Rugby Lions have kindly donated 2 tickets to our Lunch With A Lion events , this consists of a 3 course sit down meal at our home games, with a guest speaker. Previous lunches we have enjoyed the company of Dean Richards, Tim Stimpson, John Bentley and many more, and our balcony makes for fantastic viewing of the game we consider the day as highly enjoyable experience.Runners up ie next closest guesses.....

Second Prize - Coventry Runner have kindly donated a voucher for a pair of NIKE Running shoes

Third Prize - Nuneaton Sports Injuries have kindly donated a FREE MASSAGE or INJURY CONSULTATION 
I cannot thank the companies enough who have donated these fantastic prizes ..... THANKYOU!!!So get GUESSING FOLKS!!  For all the details please see our competition page "GUESS THE FINISHING TIME"

This week has been a fantastic fundraising week!  A local company www.showerdoorrollers.co.uk has made a massive donation which covers the "cost" element of the challenge along with a significant donation to the Myton Hospices.  So now every penny that is donated will go directly to Myton :)
Along with that I have had several individual donations and we are getting a few entries into the "Guess the finishing time" competition!

GREAT WEEK!!!

Stepping up the training a bit this week in frequency and feeling
pretty good about it too!
Monday
15 mins of 1 min intervals / 1 min recovery on the bike and then the rower followed by an upper body strength workout including Chest Press, Lat Pull downs, Shoulder Press, Pecs, Rear Delts, Bicep curls and tricep extensions.

Tuesday
6 x 1km Intervals at 4.5-5min/km (7.5-8min/mile) pace with a 5 min recovery period between each one.  Worked really hard and on the middle couple of intervals really found my rhythm and felt bloody brilliant!!  One day Ill run like this over distance ;o)

 Wednesday:
 Spinning Class – a high energy interval session on a spinning bike gradually increasing the resistacne throughout the workout.  Great thighburner!

 Thursday:
Today I caught the bus to work so I could RUN HOME!! I did 9.5 miles in 1:24mins so an average of 8:50min/mile and considering it was a “comfortable” run I was quite pleased with the timing.

 Friday:
Cycled to work and back – direct route both ways felt quite good on the way there at 35mins but a bit slower on the way home, although the weather was a bit pants by then lol!

Saturday:
Longish cycle ride while distributing posters!!  Did just shy of 40 miles and by the nature of the ride it was a bit stop and start but I enjoyed the ride out! I also took a pit stop at COVENTRY RUNNER where I got myself a new pair of trainers plus they very kindly donated a voucher for a pair of trainers for the “Guess the finishing time” competition.

 Sunday:
 REST!
 
I am uploading all my training onto FETCHEVERYONE as it neatly combines my schedule and training altogether which is good for a quick overview.  Although when I upload a few days training it posts the lot to facebook / twitter and makes it look like Im a training  FREAK!

I feel a bit like this right now!!  So much to do and already I feel like time is slipping away from me!! ARGH!  
BUT!!!  We have progress!  Today I set up 2 new events cycling on my bike / Turbo Trainer combo!  One in Rugby Clock Tower Shopping centre on 18th February and one in Coventry's West Orchards shopping centre on 21st April.  The last one is a bit of a worry as its the weekend before the marathon and really I should be easing up a bit.....but hey, if I just pedal slowly Ill be OK? RIGHT?!! lol!
I have had another generous Prize donation to the Guess the Finishing Time Competition from Nuneaton Sports Injuries of a professional Sports Massage!  Id quite like to win that myself HAH!
And although not quite finalised I have interested parties to fund my Bike Bag for transporting my bike to Geneva and some posh printed shirts!  More to come on all of this soon!
What can I say but.......BOING!!!!