Updated at 11.20
THE GOAL OF the Wings for Life World Run (WFLWR) is simple — run for people who can’t and raise a ton of cash for spinal cord research.
It’s a unique event where instead of you chasing the finish line like a normal 5 or 10k race, the finish line chases you. Huh?
Yes. Set yourself a goal, start running at any of the locations worldwide and 30 minutes after you start a virtual ‘catcher car’ will take off after you. When the car passes you it’s game over.
Can you outrun the catcher car? Well that’s down to how fit and motivated you are but inevitably, you’ll be caught. It’s just a matter of when.
However, to give yourself the best chance of staying out on the course as long as possible you should download this app they’ve created.
Over 5,000 people have already downloaded it and those who have give themselves the best chance of running a personal best at best, and at worst, not blowing up early.
The app is free and very easy to use and has a few very nifty features.
Chief among them is the goal calculator which allows you, the competitor, set a target distance and time you want to run.
From there it’ll calculate a pace you should run in order to achieve this.
Pacing is the most critical element when it comes to a run like this; fail to ignore the pace you’ve set yourself could result in you not reaching your goal.
It’s best to try the app out in training early this week — a long run before Wednesday to replicate what you’ll do next Sunday is no harm.
Originally published at 18.55 on 25 April
Its thanks to Billy that our amateur boxing team setup and training regime is the envy of all. No wonder the US want to poach him. Without Billy we would not have had that medal haul in London 2012, and without Billy we wont be able to match it in Rio. Its not the IABA that success lies with, its Billy and his team. They’d be fools to not give him everything he wants and anything he needs to keep that success going.
The fact that our boxers stay amateur thanks to healthy funding of 40k and coaches etc all paid for helps. While boxers in other countries are forced into professional ranks in order to go into a full time set up. Here Boxers are afraid to leave the handy number in the amateur ranks, It is ridiculous that the public fawning all over a few bronze medals(third/fourth place) in a second tier competition while Andy Lee winning a proper world title goes nearly unnoticed.
Give him what he wants!! The boxers are consistently winning medals! No brainer here
what Danny said
Resolved soon.. What a joke they should ask Billy to name his price..
Excellent trainer, really good guy too.
Deserves as much as what Martin o neill/ keano etc getting. And I’ll bet what he’s asking is reasonable, his back room team as well. Smarten up IBBA.
If the Web summit is anything to go by Billy will be leaving soon.
It’s just madness that we cannot just secure this man! We have the best track record in amateur boxing in the world per capita, yet the boxing always struggles with funding! But we pump money into the athletics, for what?? So we can get to a few semi finals! Doesn’t make sense at all!
wat time is joe ward for ghtin