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Friday Jan 15, 2010
Running for YouthNet
Hi everyone, my name's Cat and I'm YouthNet's Corporate Development Officer, in charge of gently cajoling people into running marathons, competing in triathlons and jumping out of planes, all for the "greater good" which is YouthNet.
Nine months into my new role I thought it was time to get blogging and to start sharing with you some of our fantastic supporters' stories and successes. I'll post some of these over the coming weeks but first, let's turn back the clock a few months to last April.
One week into my role I thought it would be a good idea to immerse myself completely in the spirit of things and with the full-on enthusiasm of the "new staff member", signed myself up to take part in the British 10K London Run. Ten weeks of dragging my recalcitrant legs out of bed for early morning training runs, one shiny new pair of trainers, one fundraising pub quiz and an uncountable number of peanut butter sandwiches (protein's good for the muscles, you know) later, I was toned, fit and had raised £350 in sponsorship. I'd never taken part in a public run before and the atmosphere on the day absolutely blew me away. "I'll definitely keep this up" I thought to myself, high on the endorphins and the cheers of my adoring fans (read: my lovely friends and colleagues at YouthNet who stood for hours on the sidelines to cheer me on).
Fast forward to the present day. The effects of the 10K training have well and truly worn off (it appears you can't store up exercise points and have to keep up the running – who knew?) and with a whole new events programme lined up for YouthNet in 2010, my thoughts have turned once again to fundraising and fitness. So it's with great pleasure that I announce that I will be taking part in the Mazda London Triathlon next August and once again, raising money for YouthNet.
There, I've said it. On a public forum. No backing out now....
I'll keep you updated on my progress when my training starts but in the meantime, stay tuned for tales of other, far greater YouthNet supporters and what they've been putting themselves through in the name of YouthNet and all the young people we support.
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