Sat: 8 miles steady Sun: 2hrs30 cycling + swimmingOctober's training: It's been a good month. Bought goggles, flippers and a big shark's fin to scare children. Ran 150 miles last week. Ish - well, they were new routes. Trained with Dynamite Dave

's been a good month. Bought goggles, flippers and a big shark's fin to scare children. Ran 150 miles last week. Ish - well, they were new routes. Trained with Dynamite Dave on the bike a few times - that makes a huge difference - would really recommend

, and London followed a 1 hour 30 half-marathon PB in Bath earlier in the year. I aim to run a half-marathon each month this year to 'celebrate' my birthday later this year. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.I've taught many children who are disabled

SUPPORTERS (Page 2) Page 1 2 34--Nicko I marshalled at mile 11, and the smiles and thanks I got mean more to me than the medal and T-shirt they gave me for helping. I give mine away to children anyway - this year it was Ratbag

to get 15 million children active by 2012, and we also support talented athletes at the elite level of the sport through our sponsorship of the Aviva GB & NI Team. At Aviva, we recognise the needs of athletes both on and off the track, and by providing

difference. Nearly two years ago, when my children were old enough to be left alone, I started running again at dawn, which as a single mother I hadn’t been able to do for a dozen years. It was so invigorating. My running was transformed.5. Try visualisation

in the week to do the running he wanted, keep on top of his unpredictable working patterns and see his wife and three children, he knew he'd have to radically overhaul the way he trained. In 2004, he dipped inside the magic three-hour mark for the marathon

of so many children across the world. It will be great to support all the hard work they do.Did you hit a weight-loss plateau? If so, how did you overcome it?It's really tricky to keep losing weight. I was very naïve when I first left the television show

have switched to a healthier diet, it doesn't mean your work colleagues, friends or family have as well. When cakes get brought into the office every Friday or if your children insist on eating crisps, then temptation will strike from time to time

that they have little hope of pulling through. People who give everything trying to beat the disease and families who suffer terribly throughout. Paul's illness broke my parents, and I could not bear to see how hurt they were. As a father of two young children I