Tim Brazier

A belated post but it has taken me all week to recover…

Well, after a fair bit of training and some amazing support, I managed (just) to complete the Sheffield Half Marathon in 2hrs 27mins which was 4250th out of 5500 finishers.

Did I enjoy it – No!

Would I do it again – Definitely!

Today I started my training for next seasons football and I have my eye on a few 10k runs this year with the aim of competing in the half marathon again next year and attempting to nail under 2hrs.

Just want to thank everyone who had faith in me and helped raise over

As you will see from the number of training updates that I have posted over the last few months, I along with a couple of friends will be running the Sheffield Half Marathon on Sunday 26th April 2009. I will be running in honor of a good friend who sadly passed away just over 2 years ago. I am also trying to raise as much money as possible for Leukemia Research in his memory. If you could spare any money at all I and Leukemia Research would be extremely grateful.

I have set up my online sponsor form where you can easily donate using paypal.

Thank you!

It’s been a while since my last training update but I can asure you I have still been training hard!

I have done a few different runs over the last 3 weeks with the most recent being Saturday morning where I went our for a short 3mile run and managed to beat my best recorded time by completing it in 25mins 46secs (the sprint finish helped my time but definitely not my legs).

Before that there were a couple of 4mile and 5mile run outs but my best to date has to be last Wednesday when I found an amazing route from Renishaw to Rother Valley along the Trans Pennine Way which is an old railway line so nice and straight with a couple of hilly bits.

I set out to just run for 30mins and then head back from whereever I was but as soon as I realised how close to Rother Valley I was I went for it and ran there, all the way round once and back again. This beats my previous best of 9miles with just over 10miles.

Route: Ran from home, to Rother Valley, round it and back home.

Distance: 10 miles

Time: 1hr 33mins 26secs (got that stopwatch )

Soundtrack: iPod Shuffle but mainly The Wombats -A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation.

As you can see from the lack of updates on here, I’ve not been out training for 9 whole days!! The reasons for this include drink, slight illness and a slight lack of motivation. I found that motivation tonight and am definitely back on track. I planned another short 3mile run but felt good at the half-way point so I pushed on to 4.5miles. Pretty pleased with myself and looking forward to the weekend when I’m going to attempt another 9miler. Might try to sneak a quick run in one morning this week but not promising anything.

Route: Ran from home, through Eckington and back.

Distance: 4.5 miles

Time: 35mins

Soundtrack: iPod Shuffle but mainly Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul.

Yesterday I discovered a new Adobe Air Twitter Client called DestroyTwitter.

“DestroyTwitter is a robust but compact Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR.”

I have tried a number of clients for Twitter but this is the first one that I feel I should shout about. I have tried Twhirl, Spaz, Digsby and more recently TweetDeck which have all been great to an extent but I have been all too easily persuaded to change them as soon as I found another.

So, what’s so great about DestroyTwitter?

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