So we all know that Matt ‘Coach’ Stokes is an avid health bod who runs regularly, skips to the gym, does push-up’s just for fun etcetera, but the mystery here at The Phoenix Partners is how he managed to talk our Agency Director – Rachel – into running the Loughborough half marathon in March? Although she has run half marathons in the past frankly… it’s been a while!
Says Rachel, “He got me at a vulnerable moment. We were looking at our pledge to Leicester Charity Link and how much money we had actually raised versus what we had committed to raising and we could see that we are well down on where we should be sooooo Matt suggested the Loughborough Half Marathon and before I could quite believe it I’d said ‘yes’.”
Training for Matt is going well; for Rachel it’s been a little bit more… intermittent. “I just need to get out there and run but it is amazing how many excuses you can find,” adds Rachel. “I even found myself insisting that the ironing needed doing to get out of running last week! That said we’ve only got 8 ½ weeks left so it’s got to be game on now!”
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All funds raised will be donated to Leicester Charity Link.