Mark Cooper planning 50 marathons in 56 days
Be inspired!
I’m getting loads of really encouraging comments about my chickpea, sweet potato and spinach soup – one of my favourites too, and brilliant for a Monday night’s supper if you’re into making stock out of the leftover bones from you Sunday roast!
Being involved involved in the world of endurance sports can make you feel really rather humble. I thought my running a couple of marathons a year, plus the odd fell run, cross country escapade and canoeing down rivers was pretty active….but then I come across people who make my pursuits sound really quite pedestrian (excuse the pun…). What fuels their desire to push themselves to the very extreme, not just physically but mentally too? I would love to know! Take a look at their websites:
- Jonathan Bradshaw – training to swim the Atlantic! How wrinkly is his skin going to be? He likes to load up with my butternut squash risotto
- Mark Cooper – training to run 50 marathons in 56 days – that’s 1300 miles apparently (!), running from Amsterdam to Barcelona, and he wants to do each marathon in under 4 hours! Unbelievable – he’s looking for sponsorship and raising money for charity so take a look and support him if you can…find him on twitter
- Steve Blethyn – walking from Glasgow to Reading in 10 days (that’s 2 marathons a day for 10 days), he’s on twitter too, he’s quite a life force
- Charlotte Thompson – amazing mother of 4 who took up running only recently and ran 5 marathons in 5 consecutive days last year, finishing with the London Marathon which she rand in 3:52! She’s now a top running coach and major motivator for anyone looking for some inspiration. Pretty amazing…well, she’s just plain awesome. And she loves my flapjacks!
So if, like me, you’re looking out the window at the howling wind and the cold, drizzly rain, and wondering whether you can really muster up enough energy to do you run/bike ride/walk/whatever is your thing, then maybe we should take a little inspiration from these people, get out there and just get on with it….we know we’ll feel fantastic for it afterwards…and we’ll have earned a the right to a delicious supper in the process!
