A Day I'll Never Forget | Father Fitness

I used to call myself Garfield because I hated Mondays. These days, I run my own design agency called Hill Valley Creative and I honestly don’t mind Mondays anymore. The Monday just gone however, will definitely be a day I’ll never forget.

Metro Radio

My day started off with a phone call from Metro Radio, they’d like to interview me to discuss my 12 Days of Christmas challenge. Excellent! I went in that afternoon and spoke with a lass called Rebecca. It’s such a small world, as I recognised her from school!

I’d love to say the interview went swimmingly well and I sounded articulate and funny. Unfortunately I thought I sounded very boring and mono tone! I’ll wait and hear it sounds like, hopefully it will be aired on Christmas Eve. I got a guided tour while I was there and I even met radio legend Alan Robson. Here are a pic of me at the DJ desk!

Metro Radio

When I returned home I was getting tweets and texts off friends to say I was on the Northern Echo, Chronicle Live, Durham Times and Percy Hedley websites. Unbelievable! I also featured in the three papers throughout the week. Here are the links to all the articles:

The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo Paper

Article: Father Fitness’ 12 Day Christmas Cracker

Evening Chronicle

The Evening Chronicle
Chronicle Live

Article: Durham Man Sets Himself Christmas Running Challenge

Durham Times

Santa Cause
Durham Times

Article: Father Fitness’ 12 Day Christmas Cracker

The Durham Advertiser

Article: Father Fitness’ 12 Day Christmas Cracker

Percy Hedley

Article: The Twelve Days of Christmas

I’m overwhelmed by the support from people. From family and friends to people who just like the sound of what I’m doing and want to share it. I’m very close to reaching my fundraising target now which I’m really happy about. I still have a small number of people that I’m going to ask for donations but wouldn’t it be brilliant if I continued getting donations once the challenge has started?

I’ll be blogging and uploading photos at the end of every run and sharing them on my Facebook and Twitter pages. Hopefully this will also remind people of what I’m doing and how every £1.00 can really help the Percy Hedley Foundation.

Thanks for sharing in my special day,

About The Author

Paul

Following the birth of his son in 2009, Paul was unfit and sluggish. Since then he's been training using a range of exercise techniques and gained some valuable information over the years. Events he has completed to date are Total Warrior, Pier To Pier, Bamburgh 10k, Hamsterley 10k, Blaydon Races, Newcastle Stampede and over 50 parkruns. In 2012 he created his own challenge called the '12 Days of Christmas.' He raised over £1000 for Percy Hedley by running 60 miles to celebrate their 60 years. In 2013 he ran the '12 parkruns of Christmas' with friend Lee Nyland. The pair raised over £1400 for the Tiny Lives Fund.