Richard Whitehead

If this man doesn't inspire you to get up, get out and get on then Lord help you.

The London 2012 Paralympic champion over 200m has almost, almost finished running an astonishing 40 marathons in 40 days, on blades, raising money for Scope and Sarcoma UK supported by Virgin Media.

Now that's worth a text saying RUN to 70107 to donate £5.

www.RichardWhiteheadRunsBritain.com

Ready to take the stage for 2012

Hopefully this year will be something to make a song and dance about.

Set the plans, make the resolutions and then make them happen.

Trescothick is not a Twit

There is hope for print journalism, exemplified in the choice of one of England's leading batsmen to break his news in his local paper and not by pushing buttons on his mobile.

Ex-Spurs striker Darren Bent and Aussie opener Phillip Hughes vented their frustrations via Twitter.

But Marcus Trescothick chose to rely on his column in the Bristol Evening Post to relay to the world the news he would not be returning for the Ashes finale at the Oval.

The 32-year-old retired from Test cricket after suffering from stress and has since scooped the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year with 'Coming back to me' which explores his battle with the condition.

Crystal Palace have reason to feel like they missed something

One week on from Rickie Lambert's swift £1m departure from Bristol Rovers to Southampton we have another gift from the gods in terms of web hits: A goal the referee didn't see and did not allow.

Not just a 'was the ball over the line dilemma', but the most blatant balls up we've had since the 'goal that never was' at Watford last season.

And it went in favour of Bristol City. At Ashton Gate. Against the fans' favourite villain, Palace manager Neil Warnock.

Magic.

Unless you are a Crystal Palace fan of course in which case you have my sympathies. For this is another stone wall reason why we should have goal-line technology or, at the very least, allow the fourth official twenty seconds to refer to the replay on his monitor, inform the referee what he can see and eliminate the majority of foul ups.

Key man signs for the opposition

Monday morning, following the first weekend of the season. We hardly needed a boost. But a quick call from an alert reporter put us ahead of the field on the Rickie Lambert transfer. And from the figures on the website, it pays to be first.

The Middlesbrough rag had run a tale linking Lambert with Boro. The first comment on their site alerted them to the breaking news at the other end of the country. The link? Ours. Mere moments after it had hit our site.

A few paras, a quick video and a poll later we had a debate raging between genuine Bristol Rovers fans and their gleeful cross town rivals Bristol City as well as constructive analysis of the board's decision to sell and the player's decision to leave.

People are watching, reading, devouring. Newspaper circulations may be declining but our appetite for information is greater than ever, just in a different forum.

If you don't already, jump into the world of Google alerts and have the breaking news on any topic at your fingertips. Hopefully you might see some Bristol Evening Post articles near the top of the list if you're looking at anything Bristol related and hopefully some of the new readers from yesterday will stick around and be entertained by our other content.

The Football League circus begins again

And they're off.... Bristol City and Bristol Rovers kick started their respective Football League campaigns today with mixed success, as did us at the Post.

A few new things were tried today, some of which worked, some didn't. Much like for managers the length of the country. We didn't have as bad a day as Bryan Gunn at Norwich (conceding seven on the opening day of the season is never an auspicious start) but similarly we didn't set the world on fire like Sven at Notts County, not that he is actually managing the team.

I had the joy of not being at either the City or the Rovers games, instead sweeping up remotely, a digital broom as it were having spent a week using the digital stick to beat some knowledge into our writers.

We've got a new Awaydays feature on the site for local fans which looks quite handy and will have a few more new things coming online shortly.

I'll try and share a bit more about what exactly I am doing on here while also plugging my daily role of playing World Cup corresponent and championing Bristol's bid to become a host city for the 2018 World Cup.

Now back to Newcastle's opener in the Championship (they are all set for a pantomime season)....

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