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Get Ready To Run!

Raising money for the Parkinson's Disease Society

About Me

I am now using my MySpace page here to promote my fundrasing for the Parkinson's Disease Society. I am running in the Bananaman 10K Race (about 6 1/2 miles in old distances!) at Regent's Park, London on Sunday 8th July 2007.
Thanks to the following bands for donating signed CD's/t-shirts etc for EBay auctions/raffle prizes to raise funds for the Parkison's Disease Society - Glyder, American Dog and Credo.
If any band/artist would like to help please get in touch via this MySpace site. Many thanks for stopping by! Jason R
Please feel free to sponsor me at -
Follow the latest updates and more at - http://funfunrun.blogspot.com

My Interests

Family life, music, books, politics, running, football, Stoke City FC and good food.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow rock, metal & folk music lovers, charity fundraisers and any Stoke City fans!
Please add this worthy cause to your MySpace friends list as well - http://www.myspace.com/ashsunyouth

Music:

Prog rock, prog metal, AOR, melodic rock, folk, metal, classic rock. Fave bands include Queen, ELO, Sacred Heart, Arena, Aerosmith, Fairport Convention, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Paul Rodgers, Bad Company, Chris Singleton, Jackie Leven, Asia, Ian Brown, Rainbow, Kate Bush, Magnum, Journey, Jeff Scott Soto, Judas Priest, Hard Fi, Undercut, Toto, Styx, Kansas, Thunder, Fish, Marillion, Asia, Type O Negative, Sisters of Mercy, Free, Talisman, UFO, Cheap Trick, Square One, Five Star Iris, the Heal, Royal Hunt, Jorn Lande, REO Speedwagon, Demon, Ayreon, Threshold, Mika, Waking the Witch, the Hold Steady, Undercut, and many, many more!

Movies:

The Magnificent Seven, Highlander, Butch Cassidy & the Sundnace Kid, Wayne's World II, Spinal Tap, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton movies, Star Wars, Leon

Television:

Fawlty Towers, Morecombe & Wise, Alan Partridge, Red Dwarf, Dr Who, Doctors, My Name Is Earl, Rebus, Match of the Day, Shameless, Nev the monkey from CBBC

Books:

Authors you must read at least one book by... Christopher Fowler, Terry Pratchett, Charles Dickens, Denis Lehane, Ian Rankin, David Gemmell (RIP), John Pilger, Lee Child, Stephen King, Mark Billingham, Michael Connelly, Steve Hamilton, Robert Goddard, Peter Robinson, Graham Hurley, Colin Bateman, Christopher Brookmyre, John Harvey, Stuart McBride, David Lodge, Bernard Cornwell,

Heroes:

My wife and daughter, Queen & the late great Freddie Mercury, Jeff Lynne & ELO, Laurel and Hardy, James Cagney, Gordan Banks, Lou Macari, Dennis Smith, Peter Shilton, Sir Stanley Matthews.
Anyone who faces the daily battle to control diabetes or Parkinson's disease.

My Blog

10K race successfully completed :)

Dear all,         &n bsp;     The sun was shining as we set off on a 10K run of two laps around the wonderful Regent's Park, running pas...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:22:00 PST

Fundraising update

Dear all,         &n bsp;  An update on my fundraising so far for the Parkinson's Disease Society... Fundraising - So far the total raised is £663 whic...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:26:00 PST

More EBay auctions online raising funds for Parkinson's

SIGNED PHIL SOUSSON - Vibrate (OZZY) CD http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=020&a mp;sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=300117 300975&rd=1&rd=1 SIGNED GLYDER C...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:46:00 PST

New forum for fundraising & more!

Not just for my fundraising for the Parkinson's Disease Society but also a place to plug your fundrasing; fundrasing tips; messages of support - anything charity or health related. http://www.atfreefo...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:34:00 PST

Thanks to these bands/artists for their support

As a way to say thank you to the following bands/artists who have either donated goodies for prizes/EBay auctions or donated money to my fundraising efforts for the Parkinson's Disease Society I am gi...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:59:00 PST

Fundraising update

Dear all,            An update on my fundraising so far for the Parkinson's Disease Society.....:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> Fundraising - So far the tota...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:22:00 PST

Pink Floyd bass player Guy Pratt's new book

Having dallied with Funkapolitan, Pratt suddenly found himself on Top ofthe Pops and supporting David Bowie with smooth Australian outfitIcehouse. At a ludicrously young age he became a sought after b...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:21:00 PST

Parkinson's Disease Society

Over £400 raised so far! Thanks to everyone whose sponsored me so far and if you haven't & want to please click on the link below -   BIG thanks to Glyder, Tara's Secret and Get Ready To Roc...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:38:00 PST

Bananaman 10K Race for Parkinson's Disease

Dear all,         &n bsp;   I have done many races before for various charities, although this is my first race in over six years! The monies rais...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:07:00 PST

Youth centre campaign update

We now have over 340 friends - many thanks to you all! Ashford & Sunbury Youth Centres both have interested parties looking at possibly taking over the running of each centre, with Sunbury someway...
Posted by Get Ready To Run! on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:48:00 PST