With four weeks of the #clickyourclock weekly competition now underway, that means there are four winners who are now the delighted owners of an FT4 polar heart rate monitor. We hear from Steve:
Steve Auton
Handicap score – 6.1
#clickyourclock winner 18 – 24 March.
7.93% improvement.
Steve claimed his handicap a few hours after he ran the B & Q Eastleigh 10k whilst he was looking at the runbritain website, checking out his boss’s running performances as he intends to upstage him in the rankings!
Steve said: “I was surprised as I’ve never won anything before! I was surprised that my time had improved so much but a little disappointed it wasn’t by more, I had a stinking head and chest cold holding me back!”
Steve only got into running nine months ago, when a friend dared him to do the Great South Run. Eventually he agreed and started training and fell in love with running. He describes himself as having an “addictive and competitive personality” and attributes this to the reason he looked for ways to get a London Marathon place. He managed to secure a charity place with ‘Save the Rhino’ and so has been training for London since December.
Steve said: “The training is going well and I feel fitter than ever, I can’t wait for the marathon and will be trying to get a sub 3 hour time but will still be over the moon with a sub 3.30 for my first”.
