PERFORMANCE
“I’m going to split my sponsorship between Clic Sargent, which will get 70%, and the leisure centre”
Samantha Bremner, 44, is a chiropody practice manager, from Henfi eld, West Sussex.
“My five year old nephew Ashton has got leukaemia. Whilst I’ve run half marathons and raised money for Clic Sargent, a children’s cancer charity, I really wanted to do more. I’ve never run a marathon before so I thought it would be a great challenge to run seven! I would have done them outside but the cost of the insurance is a lot and I want all the money I raise to go to the charity. I decided I would train on treadmills and do the seven marathons on them at Henfield Leisure Centre from March 25 to 31 next year. I’m going to split my sponsorship between Clic Sargent, which will get 70%, and the leisure centre which will get the rest. There will be six other treadmills going at the same time and I want other people to come along and run, either a full marathon, or in relays. By the end of the week, 49 marathons will have been run and I want to raise £21,000 from the event. Eighty per cent of my training is done on the treadmill – the furthest I’ve run is 17 miles. I watch TV or I listen to the thousands of tracks I have on my iPod.”
“I run in the gym at our army base – my training times are very much dependent on work”
Rob Shenton, 39, is an Army offi cer, from Leek, Staffordshire.
“I am based in Helmand Province in
Afghanistan until early next year. We can’t run outside here unless we run around the inside of the base so if I want to train, I have to do so on a treadmill. I run in the gym at our base – my training times are very much dependent on work. We do such long, irregular hours that it’s hard to have a regular running schedule. Because time is precious, I can’t be bothered to faff with the controls so I use Quick Start to get going! When I’m running, I listen to my iPod. I’m a long distance runner – I ran the Marathon des Sables earlier this year to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support and I have almost reached my £5,000 target. A couple of months after the marathon across the Sahara I was deployed to Afghanistan at short notice, but I’d had good practice at coping with heat and the job here is brilliant, just what I joined the Army for – to do good. I’m determined to keep up my training because I want to do the 145 mile Grand Union Canal Race in May, and the maybe the Everest Marathon!”
“In 2008 I trained for the Berlin Marathon almost entirely on a treadmill and achieved
my PB” Vic Thompson, 34, is a lifestyle consultant, from Manchester.
“I love the ease and convenience of a treadmill at home because I can do some distance running and stop if I need to. I’m often quite pushed for time and so I find that I can get a hill session or a speed session in. If I were outside on a 10-mile run, I would have to struggle
to get back in time to see clients. I also prefer treadmill running for safety reasons – I can only run early in the morning or late at night. I’ve been doing marathons since 2004 when I did the London Marathon, followed by Edinburgh and New York in 2006. In 2008 I trained for the Berlin Marathon almost entirely on a treadmill and achieved my personal best marathon time of 5:33:28. Since then I’ve done at least one marathon a year. I find treadmills are great for practising running at certain paces and I usually do my interval sessions on a treadmill. When I’m on the treadmill, I listen to music that inspires
me. My choice depends on my mood. Some days I like heavy metal, other days I like dance music. I don’t do slow music”
“I listen to Radio Five Live while I’m running and I especially like the
Nicky Campbell debate” Elizabeth Young, 45, is a writer and fi lm extra, from Croydon, South London.
“I used to run in 800m and 1600m races
when I was a teenager but more recently I run to stay fit. In the late 80s and early 90s I lived in East London and I used to go for early morning runs through the back streets, but when I moved to a much more built up area with lots of traffic I felt more self-conscious about running. Yet I’m also not the sort of person who could be persuaded to go to a gym. Three months ago, I found the perfect solution for me – and I bought a treadmill, which I now have in my living room. I love it because I set the programme to whatever I want to achieve and I can simulate running uphill. When I first got it, I used it every day for about 20 minutes,
but now I average about twice a week. I listen to Radio Five Live while I’m running and I especially like the Nicky Campbell debate because it keeps my mind focused and I don’t think about how tired I am! I still get plenty of fresh air because I walk my dog, Pepik. He also runs on the treadmill – he watched me, then copied what I did, and he now does about 2.5kms per run!”
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