7 Runners, 7 weeks left

It is with great pleasure that Team Run announce the re-inclusion of the irrepressable Chris Pateman-Jones. Free from the shackles of his desert dwelling management, he is now free to leave the middle east and join Team Run in traversing the 700 km of mediterranean coastline. His addition has lifted spirits considerably within Team Run Towers and we are looking forward to his charm, wit, good looks and good table manners adding to the running experience. Oh, and his running ability will no doubt be invaluable too, especially with Richard Tipping's knee giving him all sorts of grief.

Further adding a boost to the team is that all round fitness machine/ironman Tom Williams may well join the team for the final day or two as we run into Monaco. He'll be in Nice on holiday anyway... so why not extend the holiday for a pleasant 40km run? So long as his line manager gives it the go-ahead, he's in. Good times!

Now with seven weeks to go, it seems the ambitious targets we have set ourselves are finally setting in. Training is on for young and old. But mostly young in our case. A couple of weeks ensued there where training malaise set in. It will not happen anymore. We will train and we will train hard. For those who are interested, Team Run blogger is competing in the London Triathlon this Sunday and welcomes support. He's not asking for sponsorship, but if you wanted to give it to him, just go to www.justgiving.com/vaticantomonaco and leave it there!

We are so into the training now that we are even participating in a game of croquet. This is actually to meet our peers from other companies, but will give an excellent chance to tell people about our charity run!

Oh, and we're ready to procure our kit. Everyone's favourite bilingual person from Dorchester, Rupert Guppy, has done some deals and is ready to hand over the credit card. If anyone reading this would be interested in getting there name displayed prominently on our kit, if you are one of our top two sponsors your name will be there. Not only will random Italians see it, but it is very likely our images will be published in construction & property related press. CRASH's very own PR & Communications manager, Gerogina Mead, and RLB's very talented Phil Higham are working hard on it.