About Mike

Hello! For those who don't know me, my name is Mike Higgins, I'm 24 years old, and I am a self-employed French-English Translator.

I have been running for a little over 6 months. In August 2006, I began training with my lovely friend Jen, chanteuse and phonetician, in preparation for the Cancer Research UK 10k. You can read all about our efforts on my 10k blog. I managed to raise £167.50 for Cancer Research, which I am extremely proud of, and for which I have to thank all my lovely sponsors! Throughout the last few weeks of training, Jen was complaining of pain in her leg, which we have now learned was due to the fact that it is fractured. Nevertheless, we decided, along with some other friends, to do the Great North Run in 2007. Myself and Ben started training this week, and are hoping to build up to attempt the Leeds Half Marathon on Sunday 13 May 2007.

I am very easily swayed into training, and have a tendency to buy a lot of gadgets to help with running/training, such as shoes, gps, a heart rate monitor, a camelbak water/bum bag thing...