Time to run away and hide - I'm after your money again.
And this time I can annoy you even more by making it a sticky topic!
But it's a very good cause and all donations will be very, very gratefully received.
In December 2007
Terry Pratchett, one of my favourite authors, was diagnosed with a rare early-onset form of Alzheimer's. So last year I entered Jane Tomlinson's Run for All to try and raise some money for helping towards funding some research to help people like Terry from losing their thinking skills.
Well as I'm sure you all remember, I did the run - I finished in 932nd place (out of 11,000) - not too bad for someone who was just about to hit 50. My friends and family were very generous and donated £850 to the cause.
So this year I'm hoping to do it all again. The
10km run takes place in Leeds on Sunday 21st June and I've started training again and I plan to run it my Boston United replica kit again.
So I'll be pestering you all to make donations over the next three weeks. You can sponsor me by visiting my fundraising page at:
http://www.justgiving.com/kafoxYou may have seen the two-part documentary about Terry on the BBC earlier this year. It looks like they are really close to coming up with effective treatments so a bit more money could do an awful lot of good. He is still writing and his next Discworld book is due out in October and it's about football at the Unseen University so it should be fun. It's called
Unseen Academicals.
So it's not long now until I help bugger up the traffic in Leeds for a few hours. I've been sent my chip and allocated number 1483, so you might even be able to track me on the way round.
Despite putting in about 900 km of training runs since last year I don't seem to be getting any quicker. I must be getting old. Well I am getting old. Anyway it would be nice to run it a few minutes faster than last year so that I finish in less minutes than I am years old. 8)
