Running Piers

(originally written for the local "Hook Focus" magazine) Motivation Entering London for me was a personal challenge; I do work with Barnado’s anyway on other events to support their work helping vulnerable children and protecting them from exploitation. After my first marathon in Bournemouth last year I was keen to do another.  Running London for Barnado’s seemed obvious.  Although the training and the race were always going to be hard, raising the target brought an added challenge. Putting the "fun" into "fundraising" The fundraising ended up being really good fun; right from the start I thought it would be better to work together and so we got some stuff going as soon as possible.  The virtual runs Pete and I organised at Christmas were brilliant – got a lot of people out running “gold rings” and “days of Christmas”.  It felt like the whole club enjoyed that, and we made £700.  In the meantime we’d been selling tickets and getting raffle prizes f