Holland 0 – 1 Spain means this little marathon of mine is over at last.

My best daily performance was on 8th June when I managed 21.93 Km, or 13.62 Miles in the 24 hours.

That means that Barbara from Fife in Scotland is the winner of the competition with her guess of 13 Miles. Well done Barbara !!

Other stats from my 58 days of running are :

Average distance per day over the 58 days

11.27 Km, or 7.00 Miles

Shortest distance run in a day

1.41 Km, or 0.87 Miles, after I hurt my leg the first time.

Number of days that I ran over my average distance

31

Total number of revolutions on my wheel

Just over 1.5 Million !

I’m going to take a few days off now to have a little rest, and then I’ll be back with another competition and another Marathon.

See you soon… stay safe !

Sweetie

Well we now know that the World Cup Final will be between The Netherlands and Spain. Well done to both of them !

That, of course, means that there are only four days left for you to enter this version of my little competition; so if you haven’t had a go yet, come on… play along, and help Fife Headway at the same time !

Once the World Cup Final is over Daddy will check the entries and will be announcing the winner on here, so tune in from about an hour after it is all finished to find out who has made the closest guess.

Talking of Daddy, he has been very busy for the past few days so hasn’t been able to update you on my progress. Poor Daddy.

I have been doing very well with my running, even though it has been very hot here… 39C (that’s 102F) ! Oh, that’s so hot for a little hammy, but Mummy has moved me into the living room again with the aircon on, so I have been quite comfortable there.

I did hurt my leg again last night though, so only managed about 3km. I really must be more careful !

Anyway, Mummy will be getting up soon, so I will say ‘Bye for now and I’ll see you again before the Final.

I’ll be starting another competition on Monday, maybe with slightly different rules, so you won’t be losing me… check back for more information.

Stay safe !

Sweetie

Phew, it was hot yesterday so I only managed about half my normal distance, but it was a bit cooler today so I’m back to normal now.

Daddy has made up some Fliers to help advertise my marathon.

Just click on the Downloadable Fliers link in Column 4 and you can have a look at them. If you want to help to spread the word about me even more why not ask for some and pin some up in your office, gym, local club, community centre, health centre, pub… or wherever. The choice is endless.

Thank you Daddy.

Mummy says I’m putting on weight again , so I suppose I’d better go back to my wheel for a bit before she gets up.

Take care everybody, and stay safe.

Sweetie

Well everybody at Fife Headway got a surprise at their meeting last night

As arranged, the guys from the Dalgety Bay Round Table turned up to make the official presentation of the cheque for all the money they had raised from the Edinburgh Marathon. It was really good for the members to get the chance to meet them all and to show their appreciation.

The surprise was the amount of the cheque…. £5,000 !!

That is incredible guys ! Well done, and thank you so much.

Cheque Presentation

Daddy was going to update the Fife Headway website with all the news and pictures when he got home, but when he left the meeting he found his car had a puncture so by the time he got home it was a bit too late. Oh, poor Daddy.

Stay safe everybody, I’m going to run a few more miles to celebrate how well the fund raising is going.

Sweetie

Only two weeks to go now until the World Cup Final, so only 14 more days of running for me on this marathon.

I have been feeling a little tired for the past few days so haven’t been running quite as far as normal, but I have covered 330 miles (530 Km) since the start… that’s an average of 7.32 Miles (11.78 Km) per day.

I think that’s quite good for a little hamster like me.

Mummy says she thinks I am getting a bit fat.

How could I be with all this running ?!… Silly Mummy.

Mummy has been doing her own little marathon for the past few days… walking around the shops looking for bargains in the mid-summer sales. Haha. Have you covered more ground than me Mummy ?

Daddy has had a lot of reading to do because a medical report he has been waiting a long time for has finally arrived. Seventeen pages of it !

It’s a good job it didn’t come to me, because I can’t read.

Take care of yourselves, and don’t forget there is still time to enter my little competition…. two weeks.

Sweetie

It seems I’m not the only one who likes marathons.

While I was running on my wheel earlier Daddy was watching some people playing tennis on TV, and they have broken the record for the longest tennis match in history.

Nicholas Mahut from France and John Isner from the USA have been playing for 10 hours so far at Wimbledon… and it hasn’t finished yet !

The overnight score is an incredible…

Daddy was so engrossed in it that he completely forgot about the World Cup… Haha

I know what this marathon thing is like, I clocked up my 300th Mile last night, so I can honestly say “Well done !“.

Have you got any stories of marathon exploits that you want to share with people ? If so, why not leave a comment on here about them ?

I hope Nicholas and John can recover well overnight before they carry on their battle tomorrow.

Stay safe, everybody.

Sweetie

Daddy likes watching a TV program called Doctor Who, and he tells me that even The Doctor is following my progress !

At the start of last night’s episode, The Pandorica Opens, the Doctor and Amy went to see “the very first words in recorded history“.

I couldn’t believe it when Daddy told me what they were !….

Click on the picture to see it full size.

The very first words in recorded history - From Doctor Who, The Pandorica Opens, BBC Wales, 19/06/2010

Ha Ha ! … So now everybody knows about me !

I wish I could have seen it for myself.

Now if all you Doctor Who followers were to enter my competition and make a contribution to Fife Headway it would really help to boost the funds.

Stay safe everybody, especially you, Doctor !

Sweetie

Oh, it has been so hot here in Nanning this week that Mummy took my cage into the living room where there is air conditioning to keep me nice and cool. Thank you Mummy.

The only problem with that is that I am a shy little hamster, and I get scared when there are lots of humans around.

Mummy’s neighbour, Shanshan, has been round a few times this week with her little daughter and Mummy, Lily and Shanshan have been laughing and giggling while playing with her.

I have been hiding behind the ladder in my cage, or snuggling down in my bed with my paws over my ears.

But Daddy has started to load some videos onto YouTube now.

Just one at the moment, but he says he will put some more on there over the weekend, even though he hasn’t been able to find an easy-use-editor to put them together into a little story yet.

Unfortunately people in China can’t see them, but Daddy is trying to find a video streaming bank that can be seen here.

Thank you Daddy.

Mummy is having dinner over at Nanny and Grandad’s now, so I’m going to have a bit more of a run.

See you soon… and do stay safe.

Sweetie

Because Daddy is so excited that the World Cup has finally started I asked him how his team was getting on.

He said that he is supporting England but that they hadn’t done too well in their first game, a 1-1 draw with the U.S.A.

I asked him if I could see the goals, and he said that his blogging friend Kelly in Canada had found some video of them…

Oh dear !… I’m going back to my wheel for a bit. Much more exciting !

Stay safe everybody !

Sweetie

Oh dear, both Mummy and Daddy have been unwell, so I haven’t been able to get onto the computer to talk to you.

After her trip out the other day Mummy went for a big meal with her friends from work, but the next day she got a bad tummy and had to go to the hospital to have antibiotics pumped into her.

I tried to be a good girl and not make too much noise while she was feeling ill, but I’m still averaging 7 miles (11.25 Km) per day.

She’s feeling a lot better now, and she has a few days holiday too because of the Dragon Boat Festival. I think she’s looking forward to going to see some of the Dragon Boat Races, but I won’t be going… I’m scared of Dragons.

Daddy has been having trouble with his neck, which causes him to get bad headaches, and he had to go home from work yesterday because it was so bad.

Mummy reminded him that there was some special Chinese spray in the medical box, and he is feeling much better now having put some of that on it.

The really good news is that the people who ran the Edinburgh Marathon for Fife Headway (see the ‘Other Fundraisers’ page) have now raised £4,000 in total, (that’s nearly US$6,000, or over RMB40,000) including all the other sponsorship they got !

Well done guys !

And one more piece of good news is that Daddy has fixed the setting that meant that nobody could leave comments on here….

Thank you Daddy !

[ ... and thank you Sweetie for pointing that out to everybody ! ]

Right, I’m going to do a few more circuits on the wheel before Mummy wakes up.

Stay safe !

Sweetie