Our running heroes

Great cover picture of Nicky in our local paper Western Gazette 10th March
Front Page

More details on page 12!


18 days to go and I'm getting nervous and I'm not running!

Dont forget Mel with 35 days to go to the London Marathon,

and Pete who still has 73 days.
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Just sent this message as an email to all Club members.

Charity running update.

See http://langportrunnersextreme.blogspot.com/ more information about our three hero's.

With apologies for everyone else who is missing out on the press coverage and doing great things in training and racing!

Please buy this weeks Western Gazette. Nicky and Langport Runners are on the Front Page!!! And on page 12 for the story behind the headlines.
Only 17 days to go before flying to Morocco and preparing to run across the Sahara Desert. We should be able to see daily reports on Nicky's progress and we will be sending email messages of encouragement which will get to Nicky at the end of each day.

Mel has 35 days to go before the start of the London Marathon, which I'm sure is going very quickly now. Mel uses Fetch to record her training and you can see it at this web address: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/userprofile.php?id=44997 If that doesn't work go to Fetch for Everyone, home page, people near you and click on "nevienais". I see that Mel completed her 18 miler training run at the end of Feb and has been completing good monthly mileage totals this year. That looks pretty good to me.

Pete hasn't had much publicity for his 5 marathons in 5 days for the Forces March event on the 25th May. 73 days to go. That date is very significant as it is the anniversary of the sad loss of HMS Coventry , a type 42 destroyer , on the same day in 1982. Pete was a member of the crew.

All three are raising funds for charities related to armed conflict and through press coverage we hope to help them get as much support as possible. If possible please pass on this information. Links to their charities are shown on our Blog; http://langportrunnersextreme.blogspot.com/