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February's edition features:

ACCA Wales National Conference
Interview with Carol Warburton, Director at KTS Owens
Staff Profiles
Office Move
Opportunity to Join Now Accountancy

Thanks to our contributors and to ACCA Wales for our working relationship which spans nearly  a decade.

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Now News Issue 001 February 2013

February's edition of the Now News has been printed.

NOW provides news, views and opinions from the construction and built environment industries in the UK and Australia.

Our first issue features views from Paul Morris (P&R Morson) Vince Manago (Zadro Constructions) and Tom Bloxham (Urban Splash).

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Jamie Whelton Completes London Marathon

Congratulations to Jamie Whelton (Senior Consultant - Now Education) who completed the London Marathon in 4hrs 23mins Jamie has raised over £1,000 pounds for Anthony Nolan Trust who specialise in providing stem cell transplants. Well done Jamie view Jamie's time splits

Marathon Update!

Dave has hit his target of sponsorship, receiving over £1,000! however, targets are not just to be hit - they're to be smashed! - thanks to everyone who has contributed - if you would like to donate please click here

LA Marathon - Just Done It!

Evening Everyone!

A huge congratulations to Dave Mac who completed the LA marathon today, this is a true show of determination, believe me, this was no easy marathon, with gale force winds and torrential rain throughout the day it made conditions twice as hard.


Dave came in with a time of 7.03 which is amazing, bearing in mind he only trained for 4 months - put your mind to it and you can achieve anything.

I also managed to complete the course in 4.24


this is Dave's day though


we are off for steak, chips and beer to celebrate!


Gary & Dave


The route:

Complete the Journey - The Finish!

Well here we go, here is my final blog of the trip - the shortened posts of the last few days were the result of not much happening when you're on your own on a bike for 10 hours!

I arrived home Monday afternoon, and to be honest felt sad that it was all over. Whilst I dreaded waking in the morning only to face a day of pain, I knew that Sean was going through his own battle, so it made my pain much less.

My mileage was helped by my ever good support man Graeme, after my speedo packed up he decided to disguise the mileage, basically bullshit me, which at the end of the day did help as I covered 20 to 30 miles extra each day!

It's been a long 6 days on the bike, day two was the hardest day, the days following that, while in pain through my legs and my bum, I was quicker!

My best day was Saturday where I left the main group at 47 miles arriving into Paris on my own. That day I completed 135 miles, boy my arse was sore!

I am still working toward my £10k target, with £8234 raised to date. I do hope in the next 3 weeks I will hit my target and move the funds over to the Cycle Across America pot. I would like to thank everyone for your support, I know that Sean will be so please with everything WE have all achieved.

Many thanks and here's to the next challenge


Gary

to Paris and back...

Hi,

Everything's broken! - body, laptop (will do full update when this is working), but not my spirit...

Saturday was a long, long day - after arriving in Paris at lunch time from an early start, we had a quick beer to celebrate. I then set off back to Rugby - covering 65 miles. In total on Saturday I covered 130 miles

Sunday - up at dawn for the earliest start yet to cover some miles, all going well, legs were very tired in the morning, so it was a case of going through the pain, again!

full update will be put on here as soon as laptop is working -

Gary

photo one - arriving after 130 miles on the bike, 57 miles north of Paris, proper done in!

photo two - puncture...