For those who know me, it will probably come as a bit of a shock that I am running anywhere, let alone a marathon!! It's certainly came as a shock to the ladies in the canteen at work, who I get bacon butties from daily. For those who don't, I have worked for Yorkshire Water for 8 years now and am 33 years old.
My role in Community Engagement involves communicating our investment programme across Yorkshire, including our reservoirs. Therefore, it seemed an ideal opportunity to link my training with our reservoir improvement work so expect a few insights into the work being carried out at our reservoirs, as well as tales of toil, sweat and the odd humourous training accident along the way!!
You can find out more about what investments are taking place near you by visiting the 'in your area' section of our website. Just pop in your postcode and you have access to a whole range of useful information.
I have already run around Embsay reservoir and am visiting Ogden this Saturday and I will update this page regularly as I visit new sites.
Please feel free to come back to check up on my progress. When not running around reservoirs, you may see me running around Bradford and Halifax in my bright orange t-shirt and steamed up glasses.
My training programme started last month - better late than never and any help or advice, would be much appreciated. The event itself takes place on the 2nd May so is rapidly approaching. Since speaking to a few friends it does seem that there a lot of runners out there, so feel free to get in touch.
I am raising money for Macmillans, which is a great cause. My brother-in law recently lost his brief battle with cancer and was from Balyclare, near Belfast and I know he would be laughing his head off watching me trying to run around his city!!
If anyone wishes to sponsor me, please feel free to visit my page on just giving, the link is www.justgiving.com/John-Bond
