Lymington 10k: Race Report

On Sunday 13th May 2012 I competed in, and finished, my first race. Excluding school sports days.


I probably over-prepared for the race, making sure I had a breakfast of cereal, plus an oaty cereal bar and brought an energy drink (rather than water) with me, into which I'd put a dissolvable tablet supposed to help hydration. Looking back, this was almost certainly overkill. It's 6 miles, not 26.

One Eight Three

A couple of days ago, I received my first ever race number through the post: 183. I tried to think of any sort of significance for that number to me and have, so far, failed. The best I could do was find that if you sum the digits, you will get 12 which is the day of my birth in May and the day before the one on which I will actually race.


The number doesn't have to be significant other than the fact that it matches the number for the chip included in the pack the race organisers sent (it does).

Giving page set up and new RunKeeper widget

I've now got my giving page set up for the 10k run in July. As I mentioned in my first post, I am running the 10k in support of Open Doors who are a charity for persecuted Christians. I won't go through all my reasons for supporting them again since I've already covered that in my earlier post and on the giving page itself.

It was a bit difficult to decide how much money to aim for, having never done anything like this before. I think £500 is a reasonable stretch target, since I don't plan on doing any proper fundraising other than just asking friends and family for money.