Leanne Kaylor
2007 BUPA Great North Run
Hi… Following the success of last year and the money raised for Children with Leukaemia I decided that 2007 would be bigger and better. I had a short break in training towards the end of 2006 due to an operation which meant resting for 6 weeks, but all the time I was planning and organizing my race diary for 2007.
Training began over the Christmas period, all through the rain and snow it felt great to be building up my fitness again. The first race was the Liverpool Half Marathon on March 25th, as the time grew nearer it was clear I wasn’t quite ready so I gave my place to another runner and continued training.
By the end of March I was feeling good and ready for the Salford 10km held on Good Friday. This was my first race since October 2006. I completed it in 56.20mins. Initially disappointed as I knew I could do better I upped my schedule and went for training sessions with Salford Harriers.
Two weeks later it was the Bolton 10km, I was totally unprepared for the amount of hills on this course, not a race to set a PB hence the time of 57.33 mins.
The first of a series of Lakelands Trails followed at Hawkshead in the Lake District, a 10 mile off road race. What a fantastic event, whilst I was pushing myself to the limit up and down fells, through mud and water and taking in the glorious views from the top of the hills my dad Joe Makin and Morgan were on the climbing wall and bouncy castles and then preparing for her 400m run later in the day. My aim was to complete the torturous run in less than 2 hours, off road events are so much harder and was overjoyed to cross the line in 1 hr 57 mins. Morgan also picked up a medal in her first race!
No rest, the following weekend we were in Liverpool for the Womens 21st Worst Kept Secret 10km at Sefton Park. 7,000 women ran and I came across the line in 54.40 mins positioned 348th.
So the next test was closer to home at the Bupa Greater Manchester 10k Run. Along with 25,000 other runners Kirk and I completed this amazing event. It was difficult to pick up any pace near the start and I lost Kirk within the first 2km. It was a hot and humid day and conditions were not the best for running… but the showers along the way really helped... Ha ! I managed 6,213th position in a time of 53.41mins but Kirk finished in 48.30mins and a position of 2,767th. Another fantastic day raising funds for Children with Leukaemia and preparing for the bigger events I have planned later in 2007. Three weeks until my next event which is another Lakeland Trails, the Garburn Challenge (Lake District) Half Marathon off road event, with all the activities that Hawkshead had it should be a great day out !
The rest of my race diary looks like this –
City of Manchester 10km
Race for Life 5km
Lake District 14km
Heaton Park 10km
Hydro Active 5km
Great North Run Half Marathon
Lake District 15km
Liverpool 10km
The important part of this and the reason behind the running is to raise money for Children with Leukaemia. Saturday 19th May 2007 at the legendary Reddish Vulcans Junior Football Club presentation night we raffled a Manchester City Football Club shirt donated by Michael Johnson, raising £393.00.
A huge thankyou to all the parents and children at Reddish Vulcans JFC for their continued support.
I have been informed that I can run the ING NEW YORK MARATHON in November 2007. This is a fantastic opportunity, once in a lifetime!! My target is now upwards of £3,000. So please, please help by donating what you can.
Please donate to this worthy cause
It may just help to save a child’s life…
Thanks
Leanne x
- Total raised online
- £10.00
- view donations
- Total Gift Aid reclaimed
- £2.82
- Total raised offline
- £1,000.00
- Grand total
- £1,022.82
A message from CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA
Leukaemia is cancer of the blood. It’s not hereditary. You can’t catch it. Yet, alarmingly, leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer.
In February 1987, leukaemia claimed the life of fourteen year old Paul O’Gorman. Just nine months later, another devastating blow struck the O’Gorman family when Paul’s sister, Jean, was also killed by cancer.
Always a caring boy, Paul had made his parents promise to help other children with leukaemia and, within weeks of his death, they started fundraising. In November 1987, just days after Jean’s death, they met Diana, Princess of Wales. Deeply moved by the double tragedy, she personally helped establish this charity.
Paul continues to inspire the work of CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA. What started as a small memorial charity is now the UK’s leading charity dedicated to the conquest of childhood leukaemia through pioneering research, new treatments and the support of leukaemic children and their families.
Fifty years ago, leukaemia was a virtual death sentence. Tremendous advances in treatment and care mean that four out of five affected children now survive. However, alarmingly, incidence of leukaemia has also increased steadily during the past fifty years and the treatments, which include chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bone marrow transplants, can themselves cause severe problems in the young children whose lives they save.
Thanks to the generous support of the public, many areas of research and treatment are being investigated and progressed. Teams of researchers funded by CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA are working towards the development of more effective, less punishing treatments which will not only drive up the survival rate still further but will reduce the risk of serious side-effects.
CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA is determined to find out more about the causes of childhood leukaemia and through an annual grants programme, project funding is awarded to researchers around the world investigating why children develop leukaemia. While research is the key to protecting future generations, the charity never forgets about the children who are suffering today and what work can be done to ease the burden on children and families who are struggling through the long months and years of treatment. The Paul O’Gorman Patient Hotel at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of the recently funded projects, provides accommodation for families who are travelling to and from London for outpatient appointments and helps to avoid the difficulties of attending treatments.
With administration costs kept to a minimum, you can be sure that when you support CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA, your money will be put to good use immediately in the fight to save young lives.
