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TIME TO MEET:
7:30am
“Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.”
ROCKY BALBOA
TIME RUN STARTS:
8am
“Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.”
ROCKY BALBOA
WHEN:
SATURDAY 21ST DECEMBER
“I guess what I’m trying to say is, if I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.”
ROCKY BALBOA
WHERE:
MEET AT & START RUN FROM...
THE TUNE HOTEL
41 PRAED STREET
(NEXT TO PADDINGTON STATION)
LONDON
W2 1NR
"Cause if you’re willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who’s got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something…and you’re told no, even after you paid your dues? Who’s got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It’s your right to listen to your gut, it ain’t nobody’s right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!”
ROCKY BALBOA
WHO:
- Anyone who wants to say hello/goodbye to us
- Anyone who wants to run the beginning with us
"It doesn't matter how this looks to other people. If this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight."
ROCKY BALBOA
WHAT:
A non-stop 175 mile journey, thru two sleepless nights, from London to Stoke-on-Trent. For Christmas. For Charity. In Rocky shorts.
"Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
ROCKY BALBOA
HOW:
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"You stop this fight, I'll kill ya'!"
ROCKY BALBOA
WHY:
- To raise awareness of mental health issues.
- To wish me Mam a Merry Christmas
- To raise money for Mind charity
- To raise money for Shine on Sierra Leone organisation
- To test the mind & body beyond exhaustion
- To live the dream
- To put Stoke-on-Trent on the goddamn map
- ALL in Rocky shorts
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
ROCKY BALBOA
ROUTE:
- Follow canal (running, not swimming lol) immediately from Paddington basin
- Cut off from canal at Wembley, go thru Wembley and Harrow as the crow flies on road
- Get back on canal at Watford
- Follow Grand Union Canal all the way thru Leighton Buzzard, Milton Keynes, up to Rugby
- Take canalways from Rugby, thru Coventry and Stafford to arrive in Stoke-on-Trent on Christmas Eve.
- ALL in Rocky shorts.
“No, maybe I can’t win, maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he’s got. But to beat me, he’s gonna have to kill me, and to kill me, he’s gonna have to have the heart to stand in front of me, and to do that, he’s gotta be willing to die himself and I don’t know if he’s ready to do that. I don’t know, I don’t know.”
ROCKY BALBOA
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