Miles this week: 9
Miles total: 30
Other exercise: Swimming, Football training and a Football match
Money raised this week: £00.00
Running Total: £232.00
Still
to go: £1,480.00
Before
I embark on outlining the endless possibilities of fundraising ideas that I
have had/found, I thought I would share with you how my week started. Monday
saw me hit 5 years of service with my current employer, for which I received a
nice little letter thanking me for my loyalty and £150 for my troubles.
If only all Mondays were like
that, hay!!
Like
the past two weeks, my sporting/exercise activities have included two football
sessions (one seeing us being knocked out of the league cup, the other was just
training). I have also done a few home work-out sessions on top of the basic
running, which saw me add another 9 miles to the legs this week. I also found
the time to go swimming… Well…. I say I went swimming, but it’s actually a
course for front crawl. Now I feel I should explain that I can swim the basics i.e.
breast and back stroke, I’ve even been known to rock out the odd doggie paddle
here and there, but my front crawl is shockingly bad for an adult of my age. I
get the concept of front crawl and have no problem with the movement of my legs
and arms - even turning my head to breathe is fine. But it’s trying to catch my
breath that I find hardest. I will keep going with it though and one day will
hopefully be able to fulfil another goal of mine – to compete in a triathlon! But
that’s another blog and another year; this coming year my mind is set on
marathon training!
Regular
readers will remember that I started a lean meal plan last week (for 4 weeks) devised
by trainer Sion Colenso, which required me to maintain 6 meals a day. Well it’s
safe to say I didn’t like a few of the meals, so I spent the weekend looking
for similar plans and seeing what they recommended to eat. I found a good one
on the running bug website, which has been great!! My favourite meal of the
week has to be honey chicken with lemon and sweet potato. If you would like to
recreate this for yourself you will need the following ingredients and to simply
follow the method outlined below:
1
tbsp olive oil
1 lemon 200g sweet potatoes, peeled and roughly diced
1 clove garlic, crushed
100g of chicken fillet, cubed
½ tsp dried rosemary
1 tbsp honey
80g of broccoli
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Cut half the lemon into thick slices and add to the pan with the sweet potatoes. Cook over a gentle heat for 15 minutes, turning occasionally, until the potatoes are browned and tender.
- Add the garlic, chicken and rosemary to the pan, increase the heat and season. Cook for 10 minutes until the chicken is browned and thoroughly cooked.
- Squeeze the remaining lemon over the sweet potatoes and chicken, and stir in the honey. Simmer for 1-2 minutes, and serve immediately with broccoli.
Anyway, fundraising ideas…….
This
week has seen me racking my brain for possible fundraising ideas, but
eventually I ended up turning to my good old, trusty steed: Google! There I
found loads of different ideas, though a lot that weren’t really feasible.
So
the ideas I have currently undertaken are these:
Set up a fundraising page – this has been done through
Virgin money giving site (see link at bottom of the page).
Email signature – both personal and business
signatures have now got a link to my virgin money giving page, asking the
recipient to visit it.
Blogging – well this one needs no
explanation.
Sponsor form – I took a form into my old
work the other week and received a generous amount of sponsorship money.
Employer match funds – I have had a brief chat
with the finance director to see if the company would sponsor me (I’m hoping
they will match the funds I raise, but I am grateful for anything they can
offer). I will need to sit down for a longer chat to get a final decision.
Pester power – sending messages
requesting sponsorship via email and the social media universe, using Twitter
and Facebook.
Other
ideas I am planning or considering are:
Car boot – Pretty self-explanatory,
but I will be sure to have signs up stating that the funds raised will be
donated to Sense UK, adding to my sponsorship total for running the London
marathon.
Guess the amount – I’m not sure if I will do
this one yet, but basically I could buy a jar of sweets and get people to pay a
set amount to guess how many are in the jar - winner gets the jar of sweets.
Cake sale – I will need to speak to
the baking ladies at work to see if they would be kind enough to help me out
with this one, but I will have to wait until the New Year as they already have
a charity this year.
Holiday raffle – No I’m not paying for
someone to go on holiday!! This is where I raffle off one day of paid holiday
from work. Obviously I will need to see if my employer would be kind enough to
offer the extra day of holiday...
Sweep stake – People predict my finishing
time and sponsor a set price to do so.
Sponsor a mile – This is where people
sponsor you to listen to their choice of music for each mile, I think I would
have to have a set price per mile, just in case I get stuck listening to One Direction
for 26+ miles……….that would be harder than the marathon, I reckon!!
Please be sure to sponsor me, even if
it’s just £1. Everything helps!
Leigh
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