David Jeanneret

Some wood from our old kitchen. Being burnt by the scouts!

Filed under: Home and Family on May 12th, 2010 | No Comments »

I’ve just spent the evening learning about Haiku and writing one at Boost – homework and youth club in Lawrence Weston.

Here’s my (topical) creation:

ten kilometers
may our love running reach the
poor needy oppressed

Filed under: General on May 11th, 2010 | No Comments »

Well – I did it! Race run. Sponsorship target reached.

My Official time was 1 hour 4 minutes and 16 seconds. Official Photography here!

Thank you to everyone that supported me! I think as a “Love Running” we’ve nearly raised £100,000. So if you haven’t donated yet, there’s still a great target to smash for the group. Thanks. (I’m going to give the £30 cash matching money to friends who haven’t reached their targets yet!)

I reached my sponsorship target the day before the race, then at 9 o’clock in the evening my email alerted me to a £2 donation that pushed me over the target – and a reminder of a promise that I had entirely forgotten I had made. I had said that if I beat the target, I’d run in an outrageous outfit. I was tempted to suggest that the look of pain on my face ought to be outrageous enough – but instead I raided Sophie’s dressing up box!

I had family too support which was awesome, as was the random support from the crowd – it was really generous of people to give their time to cheering the race and shouting support for random strangers, I felt hugely privileged.

Andrea & the children got a snap at the start:

And a snap near the Finish:

And I took the obligatory space blanket shot just after!

You can see the track of my race over at RunKeeper.

I was really worried that the pain in my legs (I’d had ALL week) would stop me from completing the race – painkillers got me down to the warm up with a little pain still and quite a lot of worry, but after a pray with my friends the pain disappeared in the first half a kilometre! Amazing. Thanks God.

If you had meant to sponsor me and never got round to it – there’s still time to help me crack the £100,000 Love Running target, please:

Filed under: Home and Family, Save the World on May 10th, 2010 | Comments Off

Hi folks

Race Day is fast approaching!!

Please forgive me if you just received something very similar via email – you’re a select few who subscribe to my blog!

I think I’m well prepared to run the race although I might not be as quick as I had originally hoped.

Thank you to all of you who have donated to the amazing causes in support of my running attempts!! Read on if you’re interested in seeing where, in Bristol, your money is taking me on race day.

If you have considered sponsoring me but decided not to? Then, thanks for your thought. Please tell me if you never want to hear about this race again, or if you’ve had a chuckle from what you’ve read!

If you’ve not got round to sponsoring me yet – please give it some thought and take action now – don’t just leave it on your To-Do list! The poor, the oppressed and the needy will benefit so much from your support. So please trip on over to JustGiving to sponsor me now online, or if you’d prefer an offline method – you can send me a cheque addressed to “Woodlands” and if you’d like the tax man to contribute a bit too – complete this form and tick the Gift Aid box!!

So – to Race Day:

I’m in the 2nd wave of starters so my race will be starting at 9:45 on Sunday morning (9th). Most of you won’t be trekking to/across Bristol to watch the race, so you could follow me online if you like!!

If you visit http://www.runkeeper.com/user/davidjeanneret after 9:45 on Sun 9th May you will see a link inviting you to follow me live on a map!

Anyway – thanks for listening!

Filed under: General on May 5th, 2010 | No Comments »

Amazing speech delivered by 12 year old Adora Svitak.

Hat tip to Youth Blog

Filed under: General on May 4th, 2010 | No Comments »