Monday 20 December 2010

Week Two: It’s a marathon not a sprint….

Welcome back Panther fans! 

This week we’ve seen a start to the heroic marathon diet. After extensive research it was found that to run a marathon a man needs much food (roughly three times that of a pregnant lady – it didn’t say the size of lady).

This has led to some empowering portions at lunch time and interesting conversations with the Nice Canteen Lady (NCL). On Thursday, for example, our conversation went something like this:

(Panther#1 boldly walks up to till with standard meal…+ rice…+ 2x bread rolls…+ 2x flora)

Nice Canteen Lady (looks at extra bread rolls, rice and 2x flora): £3.50 please

Panter#1: I’m running a marathon alright!

Clearly all the bases are covered.

In other news Lee started running (don’t know why, we’ve got a blog, dance routine and diet sorted so it should all fall into place anyway). He sprinted 4 miles over 20 minutes. The mans a machine. He once won a bike race which included a voluntary detour up Ditchling Beacon and a visit to the shops because he was ‘embarrassed by winning’. That embarrassment better be conquered by race day because I can see Lee taking home the gold with or without scenic detours.

We also went on our first group run…well we were going to, but it was snowing, plus it was cold and the Eastenders omnibus was on. Panthers don’t like the cold, if we did we would be polar bears.

Now all we need is a picture of us all mocked up in Street Fighter attire…..Thanks Simon for mocking us all up in Street Fighter attire. 


 Big thanks to our first sponsors! Panther paw high five!

Tuesday 14 December 2010

Week One - WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

Welcome to Lee Christien, Simon Letchford and Daniel Hawkins’ Brighton marathon blog!

Individually we are three average/extremely attractive men, but with our powers combined we are the…Elite Extreme Panther Dash! Meow!

Here we will keep you updated with developments of our training regime, weight loss, weight gain, power struggles, breakdowns, leg breaks and eventual failure.

But before all this can begin, we need a logo….thank you Simon for the logo.


We're aware that we have entered this quite late, especially when considering I hope and fully expect Team Elite Panther Dash to take the top 3 finishing spots. However we have the two most important elements in place: Logo and Blog. Now all we need is to practice the Chariots of Fire Theme Tune and Celebratory Dances and we are done. Also best start going for joggings.

Please donate kindly (we went for the least emotive charity possible so not to appear too desperate or obvious). We are combining our powers to help raise money for Right To Play (Righttoplay.com).

Much love,

The Elite Panther Dash 5000 Deluxe (team trading cards just in time for Christmas ;-))