Stephen Miller - Throwing a mile

I’ve supported Sport Relief througout the years and have even done the mile around the Newcastle-Gateshead Quayside in my electric wheelchair, but that was a bit easy for me and not very challenging. So when I was selected as the North East & Cumbria’s Sport Relief Ambassedor for the 2010 campaign last November, I thought I’d do something a bit more challenging and special to raise money for Sport Relief 2010. Being a thrower, I didn’t fancy doing any running, so instead of running a mile like everyone else, I thought it would be good if I tried to throw a mile – Origionally I thought of throwing a marathon but worked out that it would take me about a week to do that.

Alas, on the 23rd February I’m going to attempt to throw the club consecutively for a mile in less than an hour. I will need to throw at least a club a minute and need to average about 30 metres – when you consider my average for the last competitive season was 31 metres, it’s not going to be easy. I’m sure I can do it, and need all the help I can get on the day – if you’d like to sponsor me, visit http://www.justgiving.com/throwing-a-mile.

The weather has been pretty shocking for any outdoor sports recently but particularly for throwing, I’m hoping there won’t be any more snow so that I can get out and do some throwing, I need to get my throwing frame back first though, it is currently in Loughborough as I’m having a new frame developed. The weather doesn’t usually bother me in the winter as I like to hibernate in the gym until it starts getting warmer, I am hoping the level of unemployment goes down soon though because you can’t get moved in the gym right now.