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Iwan's Blog: Part Four

Sunday 11 October 2009

Well, this is it, the big one- race day! A long coach journey awaits the boys, who are full of excitement and nerves. Select family members make the journey to Birmingham with them, six travel but only four will run.

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    Iwan's Blog: Part Three

    Sunday 27 September 2009

    Only a week to go and my boys need firing up, so we go on a road trip. We decide to take the boys to Loughborough to the Hi-Pac centre. It's where I used to train and is state-of-the-art; at the end of the day 400m is 400m but I hope if the boys see the great set up at Loughborough it will kick start their minds into the job at hand.

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    Iwan's Blog: Part Two

    Wednesday 19 August 2009

    I drove to the school excited but also with nerves, I now had to meet the guys and get them mentally ready for first real challenge.

  • Iwan Thomas at the relay challenge

    Iwan's Blog: Part One

    Monday 20 July 2009

    Olympic athlete Iwan Thomas starts his relay challenge - to pick six promising runners from a school with very little athletics facilities and turn them into a successful 4 x 400m relay team. Read the first part of his blog.

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