Fiona Oakes running for captive animals, London marathon 09

[JP]

Fiona Oakes (who is also VF member) is running the next London Marathon in April 09 for The Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS) - UK based campaign group opposing the use of animals in entertainment. Its a great group punching above its bodyweight for the animals.

Fiona Oakes is an elite level marathon runner, her PB time on the vegan running table is marked as 2:49:00 and she continuously places high in highly regarded comps.

You can sponsor Fiona in her run to help CAPS in their work.

See the full story and instructions on how to sponsor Fiona at:
http://www.captiveanimals.org/news/2008/fionaoakes.html

[JP]

Blog tracking her preparation:

http://fionaoakes.blogspot.com/

[runrevolt]

Thanks for the link JP.

[runner]

Thanks for the update JP!!

Good Luck Fiona!!

[emm7]

have been looking at this blog, it's brilliant!
cheers JP!
hope that Fiona reaches her goal (2hr 45)

[treaclemine]

Apparently, Gordon Ramsey is running again this year - his best time was, according to Wikipedia, 3:46:10 in 2006 and he's apparently aiming to break the 3:30:00 barrier in 2009.

I think it would be interesting to make sure Gordon Ramsey knows there will be a vegan woman running at lot faster than him?

[treaclemine]

I can't currently find out any information about how Fiona's run went - help?

[Konstantin]

2:58. Outside her PB, but still great!

[runner]

32 4 393 » FIONA (GBR) W40 VEGAN RUNNERS 2:58:48

119 96 963 » JAMES (GBR) M18 LIVERPOOL HARRIERS 2:36:42

509 337 26280 » MATTHEW R (GBR) M18 VEGAN RUNNERS UK 2:52:24

[JP]

wow, awesome!

Both fiona and james are right up there in the mix!

Is matthew tarz? solid time from him as well!

[Konstantin]

I was watching the 'finish line' camera and saw a man in a VRUK vest who was neither Max Newton, nor James. He finished just before Max, but is not on the results page if you search for finishers from Vegan Runners. Anyone know who this mysterious speedy dude is?

[runner]

you can be proud of yourselves!!!

james next time a sub 2.30

posibly better in berlin, amsterdam,..

two years ago I got a vegan runner on a video I made from a random group in amsterdam. guess there are more vegan runners out there running than posting here.

don't think this is tarz.

[emm7]

very well done to Fiona and James!
an amazing and inspiring achievement!

[Rochellita]

well done!!

[james79]

Cheers guys. I struggled again but was happy enough to get a pb. 26.2miles is such a long way to race


I met the guy who ran 2.52 at the finish. I forget him surname. I know he runs for Warwick Uni also. Max Newton ran 2.55 so both of those guys did pb's. 3 guys and 1 lady under 3hours is good for such a small club. Vanessa Hudson had a good run, about 3.40 odd i think. Will post more later...