Home > The Surf4Wine Blog
ASICS 10k London Run Posted by Andrew Barrow, 2:58am 05/07/2007.  You're probably wondering what happened to Mr Chapman's bid to complete the ASICS 10k London Run. Just because it's been quiet on that front this week doesn't mean he didn't do it, oh no.
It's just taken him this long to catch his breath to tell us about it. He "ran" it ,(actually he confesses to walking a fair part of it) along with twenty thousand other people, in a little under and hour and a half, and has helped to raise over a thousand pounds for Helen and Douglas House (two hospices for children and young adults in Oxford (find out more here) Mr Chapman also pledged 10% of all profits from S4W on the Sunday that he ran.
For those of you that take a keen interest in these things, the official website gives the winners as:
The race was won by Stephano Baldini of Italy, in a time of 29 mins and 27 secs. Second place was taken by UK runner Phil Wicks, in a time of 29.33, and third place was secured by Simon Tonui of Kenya, in a time of 30.35."
 For the record, Mr Chapman's proud to add that his son Douglas ran it with no training in 55 minutes. (He puts his fleetness of foot down to running away when he's asked to tidy his bedroom.)
We asked Mr Chapman what his memory of the day will be:
The whole event was an experience that no-one there will ever forget. The atmosphere was amazing, with all the spectators taking it in turns to shout encouragement as we ran past. And some of the other runners were plain crazy....one man was dressed as a 6 foot silver spoon (perhaps he was running to find a well-bred mouth to go in?!) and another lot were rugby players, who were passing the ball to each other. Whenever anyone dropped the ball, he had to drop to the floor and do ten pushups. I made sure I didn't get in their way!
^ Back to top
House rules - No advertising / spamming, or profanity. All comments are moderated and will not appear immediately.
| 
+44 (0)7720 587073
Your trolley is empty.
![[Valid RSS]](http://img.surf4wine.co.uk/images/icons/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed"){kind=icon}