The Total Hvar inbox is a weird and wonderful place, and one day it would be fun to put together a book of the highlights – it would probably sell more copies than the guidebook…
Very nice entry today from Laurence, on a rather ambitious (and slightly crazy) project to raise money for Anxiety UK. I am sure he would appreciate your support.
Dear Paul,
As a follower of the Total Hvar blog for a couple of years now I wanted to let you know about a run that I will be starting from Hvar Town next month. On the 20th August I will be running the Hvar Half Marathon. The day after I shall be starting a 60 day run back from Hvar Town to my hometown of Stoke on Trent, running on average 22 miles per day. Day 1 will see me running from Hvar Town to Jelsa, Day 2 from Jelsa to Gdinj.
I will be raising funds for Anxiety UK and the run is about promoting awareness of mental health issues, having suffered some mental health problems on Hvar Island back in 2012.
I was wondering if you might be interested in featuring the run in a blog piece on the Total Hvar website.
In the summer of 2012 I experienced a manic episode. A large proportion of this took place in Croatia, where I spent a large part of the summer months. In June I finished a law conversion course and straight after the course I arranged to go away on holiday with my friend Josh, spending five nights on the island of Hvar. Whilst on that holiday I suddenly experienced a new leash of energy, became a lot more socially gregarious and was experiencing a rush of ideas in regard to future projects. I returned home to England and on my return I believed that I’d suddenly discovered my raison d’etre; I was going to set up a music festival on Hvar. I believed that nothing would stop me from doing this.
I went back out to Croatia for a few weeks but was distracted by a number of different things, booze, women, believing that I had a chance of getting into the Hadjuk Split football team. The fact that I had no experience of running events, that I didn’t have a clue what I was doing and that I couldn’t concentrate my thoughts on one specific thing for more than five minutes meant that I was destined to fail and I never truly properly got started (although I did leave a ‘business plan ‘in the town mayor’s favourite restaurant with the idea that it would be passed onto him!). Read more…
