{"id":1016,"date":"2019-08-18T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2019-08-18T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T16:54:56","slug":"5k-a-day-230-365-with-fawaz-ghali-on-day-8-running-30-marathons-in-30-days-for-alzheimers-research-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/2019\/08\/18\/5k-a-day-230-365-with-fawaz-ghali-on-day-8-running-30-marathons-in-30-days-for-alzheimers-research-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"5k-a-day 230\/365 &#8211; with Fawaz Ghali on Day 8 running 30 marathons in 30 days for Alzheimer&#8217;s Research UK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Sunday 18th August 2019<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Distance: 26k<\/strong><\/li><li>Total to date: 1560.4k <\/li><li>Rolling target: 1150k<\/li><li>Ahead of target: 410.4k<\/li><li>Distance remaining: 264.6k<\/li><li>Days remaining: 135<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month I was put in touch with Fawaz Ghali by Simon from Alzheimer&#8217;s Research UK. Fawaz is running a marathon distance every day for 30 days. He started last Sunday so this was Day 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He does a different route on each day of the week. His weekday runs start at 5am and his Saturday and Sunday runs start at 6am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d promised to join him on at least part of one of his runs and chose today. So I set my alarm clock early &#8211; 5.25am &#8211; and headed out of the door after 6am, ran to Sefton Park and joined him for a couple of laps before heading back to The Mystery for junior parkrun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing is that Fawaz didn&#8217;t start running until June last year, and has since run lots of races including a 100km ultra marathon! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to support him you can find his JustGiving page here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fawaz30marathons30days\">https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fawaz30marathons30days<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he&#8217;s on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FawazGhali\">twitter.com\/FawazGhali<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marathon 8 of 30 Marathons in 30 days with the support from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsafrogslife?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@itsafrogslife<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoGibsonUCLAN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoGibsonUCLAN<\/a> and the amazing group Jane, Sarah, Gary and Jarrod. Please sponsor me <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cQN75l5rnX\">https:\/\/t.co\/cQN75l5rnX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zy5T0EA9j4\">pic.twitter.com\/Zy5T0EA9j4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fawaz Ghali (@FawazGhali) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FawazGhali\/status\/1163047048893128704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 230\/365 running 5k-a-day in 2019 &#8211; with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FawazGhali?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FawazGhali<\/a> on Day 8 running 30 marathons in 30 days for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlzResearchUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlzResearchUK<\/a> <br><br>Donate to Fawaz&#39;s fundraising at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pA3hM4W4sL\">https:\/\/t.co\/pA3hM4W4sL<\/a><br><br>See my route on Strava<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6JGstwnRwz\">https:\/\/t.co\/6JGstwnRwz<\/a><br><br>Follow my progress<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t00tpUQrh1\">https:\/\/t.co\/t00tpUQrh1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WcEzvyfR08\">pic.twitter.com\/WcEzvyfR08<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Graham Holland \u5c0f\u5149\u982d \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc (@itsafrogslife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itsafrogslife\/status\/1163059298043420676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/2629138956\/embed\/76adfac148615fc5029aa5f41deac24c5de3a40d'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<a style=\"display:inline-block;background-color:#FC4C02;color:#fff;padding:5px 10px 5px 30px;font-size:11px;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:nowrap;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:10px center;border-radius:3px;background-image:url('http:\/\/badges.strava.com\/logo-strava-echelon.png')\" href=\"http:\/\/strava.com\/athletes\/9681964\/badge\" target=\"_clean\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n  Follow me on\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/badges.strava.com\/logo-strava.png?resize=51%2C13\" alt=\"Strava\" style=\"margin-left:2px;vertical-align:text-bottom\" height=\"13\" width=\"51\">\n<\/a>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/grahamruns5kaday\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"370\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/justgiving-donate.png?resize=370%2C156&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/justgiving-donate.png?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/itsafrogslife.net\/grahamruns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/justgiving-donate.png?resize=300%2C126&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Help me reach my fundraising target for Alzheimer&#8217;s Research UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Graham runs 5k-a-day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 18th August 2019 Distance: 26k Total to date: 1560.4k Rolling target: 1150k Ahead of target: 410.4k Distance remaining: 264.6k Days remaining: 135 Last month I was put in touch with Fawaz Ghali by Simon from Alzheimer&#8217;s Research UK. 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