12 WEEKS TO GO

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• Training Programs
• Liz Yelling’s Training Tips
• Free Marathon training evening
• Help the Hospices
• Accommodation from £ 37.50pps
• 2010 Marathon Merchandise
• Story
• Tell us your Story

TRAINING PROGRAMMES - WEEK 5

LIZ YELLING’S TRAINING TIPS

Lucozade Sport Ambassador and Double Olympian, Liz Yelling gives you her top tips to completing a great race.

1. Tempo running will really give you the edge for your training and will include running at a faster but more manageable pace for longer durations
2. Base miles help build the endurance you’ll need to go the distance, so don’t neglect your steady runs
3. Know your pace. Train at your target race pace and it’ll feel easier come race day
4. Hydrate. Give yourself that extra boost on race day by ensuring that you start the event suitably hydrated by drinking 500mls of Lucozade Sport in the hour before you run
5. Staying headstrong around the course, particularly if you are relatively new to running, will really help you have a great race; believe in you and your preparation.

For more information, including how to sign up to the Lucozade Sport newsletter, head to www.lucozade.com/running.

TRAINING AND INSPIRATION EVENING

Brings you another Training and Inspiration evening

EDINBURGH MARATHON

Open to anyone training for Edinburgh or any other marathon

Monday 1st March 2010,    7pm – 9.00pm

St Bride's Community Centre, 10 Orwell Terrace, Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2DY

Asics goody bag to all on the night and a chance to win a pair of ASICS shoes to book your place email:  edinburgh@runandbecome.com

HAYLEY HAINING: Scotland’s top woman marathon runner with appearances for GB at world championships and for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Hayley will talk about her lifetime of running experiences and how she prepares in the weeks and months before major races.

ALEX McEWEN: UK athletics level 3 coach at Edinburgh Athletic Club(EAC) who has over 20 years of successful coaching  of runners of all abilities to achieve their goals;  and

ADRIAN STOTT:  Manager of Run and Become; experienced Ultra-distance runner; former British 24 hour champion and international with 12 completions of the 95 mile West highland Way race amongst his achievements will talk about:

• How to plan a gradual training programme
• Stick to a schedule
• Set realistic goals
• Training the mind as well as the body
• Drinking on the run
• The important two weeks leading up to the race
• Preparing for race day itself

Together with experienced EAC members they will all be involved in an open question and answer session where YOU the audience can tap into their experience to help with your training as you prepare for your own Marathon challenge.  

In short, an evening to be inspired, and also to inspire each other.

To book your place email:  edinburgh@runandbecome.com

Directions The St Brides Centre (EH11 2DY for sat navs) is close to Run and Become and Haymarket station off Dalry Road.  There is off street and on street parking after 6.30pm but please make sure you are parked legally and not in a resident’s permit bay. Somerfield supermarket (1-2mins walk) has its own car park which many R and B customers use discreetly!! 

Run and become will be open till 6.30(ish) on the evening of the event

HELP THE HOSPICES

Join our celebrity runner, BBC News and Sports presenter Sue Thearle as she tackles a leg of the Team Relay for Help the Hospices! Why not get involved and take part in the Edinburgh Marathon, Hairy Haggis team relay or Scottish Half Marathon?

You can read and follow Sue’s training blog at: www.realbuzz.com/blogs/u/Sue_Thearle/sue-s-sports-starter 

We will give you all the support you need to succeed, with cheering points around the course and a post-race marquee with refreshments and leg massage. In turn you’ll be helping us to support over 200 local hospices that care for terminally ill adults and children, as well as their family and friends, when they need it most.

Help the Hospices is the leading charity supporting hospice care throughout the UK. We want the very best care for everyone facing the end of life. 

Register now on our website: www.helpthehospices.org.uk/edinburghmarathon, call 0207 520 2999 or email us: edinburghmarathon@helpthehospices.org.uk

ACCOMMODATION

If you are looking for accommodation we have partnered with a number of providers throughout the City.  We are holding allocations of rooms within 3 and 4 star hotels convenient to the race start and close to local city centre bus routes that have regular operating services.  Prices start from £37.50 per person sharing. We also have one and two bedroom self-catering apartments sleeping up to 4 guests.  

For those looking to pamper themselves we can offer a Country Retreat in lovely grounds. For accommodation rates and availability visit the Edinburgh Marathon website at www.edinburgh-marathon.com/?accommodation or click here. Alternatively you can contact our Hotel manager Bill Evans directly bill.evans@eventsinpartnership.com

ASICS 2010 EDINBURGH MARATHON MERCHANDISE

We have a select range of dual branded ASICS technical running gear for sale fully embroidered with the 2010 Edinburgh Marathon logo. To get more details or to find out more please visit our shop on www.edinburgh-marathon.com/?Shop or click on any of the products below.   You can also purchase your shuttle bus and relay tickets through our shop

ASICS Hermes Polo Shirt (Mens) £19.95	ASICS L/S Shirt (Mens) £21.95	ASICS S/S Shirt (Mens) £19.95	ASICS  Epic L/S ½ Zip top (Mens) £44.95
ASICS Stride L/S ½ zip top (Mens) £29.95	ASICS Dionysos ½ zip field sensor top (M) £39.95	ASICS Shorts (Mens) £19.95	ASICS S/S Shirt (Women's) £19.95
ASICS Electra L/S  ½ Half Zip Top (Women's) £44.95	ASICS Knee Tight (Women's) £23.95	ASICS Athena Field Sensor mesh top (Women's) £34.95	ASICS L/S Shirt (Women's) £21.95

PAUL & DIONNE’S STORY 

Paul & Dionne are both running the Edinburgh Marathon again this year, having both completed the course last year in that monstrous heat. At that point we both vowed never again!! But the lure of coming back to such a fabulous place as Edinburgh (we both live in southern England) was too great and we signed up almost immediately when entries opened for this year's race.

Paul has raised funds in each of the past two years (raising £1400 in 2008 for the British Heart Foundation and £800 in 2009 for the Geoff Thomas Foundation) through my running. Dionne has never raised any money through her running before, but has decided to do so this year.

Dionne is a senior midwife at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, Sussex. Remarkably, she manages to juggle this most demanding of jobs with being a single mother of two boys (aged 14 and 10), as well as putting in all the training that she does (both with me and on her own) in preparation for her races.

I find it hard to comprehend some of the things that she has to face in her job on a day-to-day basis. The pressure to assimilate situations, process information from many sources and then make life or death clinical decisions on the spot is something that I will never have to do. Some days she is both mentally and physically drained, particularly after working consecutive night shifts. She never shirks anything with her role, and often is the 'go to' person when events have not turned out with a positive outcome. Despite this, she is a remarkably strong person and try’s to maintain a happy outlook on life - and running is one of the main things that allow her to release the stresses of the job.

As with many NHS units throughout the UK, there is never enough money for all the equipment, big and small, that is required to ensure that, in the Maternity Units case, mother and baby get the best possible care.

Dionne has decided that she will use her running to raise funds for the Maternity Unit where she works. To do this, she is running two marathons in five weeks - the inaugural Brighton marathon on 18th April and then the Edinburgh Marathon on 23rd May.

To sponsor Dionne please visit her JustGiving page on www.justgiving.com/DionneMason2010

TELL US YOUR STORY

Have you a story to tell about why you are running the marathon or scottish half marathon? If so, please tell us about it and we could help you highlight your story in our eNewsletter. The eNewsletter currently goes out to over 40,000 members.  Local newspapers are always wiling to highlight stories and it could help you raise funds for your charity. Click here or email us at adele@gsi-events.com with your story.