10 WEEKS TO GO

• Training Programs
• Training Tip
• Confirm your Emergency Details
• Help the Hospices
• Accommodation from £ 37.50pps
• Merchandise
• Story
• Tell us your Story

TRAINING PROGRAMMES

TRAINING TIPS (RUNNING KIT - KEY POINTS) – BROUGHT TO YOU BY RUN AND BECOME

Rather than boring you with pages and pages of advice about running kit I have included some key points to remember when picking kit to train and run in.

• If it's wet wear a lightweight shower-proof top over your training kit, several thin layers are better insulation than one thick one. Keep your kit clean and dry, wearing damp kit is unpleasant.
• Cover your extremities when its cold, wear gloves and a hat you lose more heat from hands and head than anywhere else.
• Make sure that your shoes are suitable; take specialist advice from a running store such as Run and Become. Try to keep 2 pairs of shoes going at any time.
• Always walk in a new pair of shoes for a week before running in them; it helps avoid blisters and sore feet.
• Don't be tempted to buy high fashion gear from non-running sports shops, it is not designed for marathon running and will certainly be a lot more expensive.
• Slightly loose fitting gear is more practical for running, keep skin tight gear for the post race party!

For all your specialist running gear go to Run and Become www.runandbecome.com

CONFIRM YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT DETAILS

If you have been lucky enough to get a place in the Marathon, Scottish Half or Hairy Haggis Team Relay we need you to confirm your emergency contact details now. To confirm your emergency contact details please log on to ‘My Details’ at www.edinburgh-marathon.com/?my_details or click here. To log in you will need the email address and the password you created when you entered. After you log in just select the ‘Contact Info’ button at the top of the page.

Through ‘My Details’ you can also update your predicted time, running club and address details.

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: http://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 apartmentswww.helpthehospices.org.uk/edinburghmarathon 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

NICK’S STORY

Like most people running the 2010 Edinburgh Marathon and raising sponsorship I have good reason to be seeking sponsorship and raising funds for Yorkhill Hospital. My son, Gareth, now 10 was born at Royal Alexandria Hospital, Paisley on 13th December 1999, but immediately after he was born the doctors realised that his breathing was abnormal and within the hour he was being transferred to Queen Mothers Hospital in Glasgow. He was quickly diagnosed as having a Diaphragmatic hernia, where his stomach and other organs such as his kidney and liver herniated up into his chest cavity. This resulted in his left lung not growing to full capacity. Having had to leave my wife Lynn in Paisley I went to Glasgow with my son, being told that he was unlikely to survive and to take each hour by hour and to prepare myself and my wife for the worst. Certainly within Neonatal Intensive Care they don't hold their punches. At 20 hours old Gareth underwent a life saving operation and was in surgery for 4 hours. I know that everyone says this, but it really was the longest 4 hours of my life waiting to hear that he had come out of surgery. Even then Gareth was not out of the woods and it was not until Christmas Day 1999 that we held Gareth for the first time, the best Birthday / Christmas present ever (I'm a Christmas day baby!) but he is obviously a fighter and after six weeks of ups and downs spent in Ward 2B at Yorkhill Gareth eventually came home on 21st January 2000.

In my late 20's I ran half marathons, but have never run a full marathon, but now having hit 40, well 41 and with Gareth now 10 years old I have decided to run a full half marathon and at the same time raise as much funds as possible for the Yorkhill Children's Foundation. I will aslo be running both the Glasgow Half Marathon and Great North Run later in the year.

Besides running,  my day job is as a Senior Buyer employed by Greater Glasgow Health Board where I have responsibility for purchasing major items of capital medical equipment and at first hand literally spend much of the money raised by the Foundation ensuring value for money is achieved on their behalf. I thus have an added incentive to raise as much as possible knowing I am likely to be personally involved spending it on their behalf and knowing that Yorkhill has the most up to date ventilators, patient monitoring, ultrasound or whatever, but also to help some of those departments quietly doing a job, but perhaps less in the public eye.

To sponsor Nick please visit his JustGiving page at www.justgiving.com/NICK-CLEARY 

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.