Hope House Half Marathon March 13th 2011

It's been almost a year since I last donned my trainers for charity and this time I am raising money for Hope House Children's Hospices by running 13.1 miles in the Ironbridge Half Marathon.  I have read in the past in Runner's World magazine that the Ironbridge half is one of the UK's hardest halfs :-)  Having run it last year when I was 'marathon fit' was one thing, having drastically cut back on the training since then all I can say is that I am dreading all of those hills and that I am really quite scared!

Hope House is a wonderful charity, based near to my office, that cares for over 320 terminally children and also supports their families in preparing for and dealing with the loss of a child.  Something that many of us cannot even begin to comprehend.

As a company we are aiming to raise as much money as possible for the charity by doing things like the following:-

• we have a place in the Virgin London Marathon and novice runner Sue is bravely attempting her first ever marathon, you can read her blog Virgin Marathon Girl
• a group sky dive
• an amazing raffle with some excellent Virgin prizes
• my half marathon
• we've taken a hot air balloon basket into our local shopping centre to help promote the raffle
• a few mini fundraisers within the office and around the local area
• auctioned logo places on Sue's running vest

It costs £4 million per annum to run Hope House, almost all of which comes from donations, therefore if you are able to help in any way whatsoever this would be fantastic.

Please visit my sponsorship page if you are able to help.

Thank you

xx