Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, is now in its 15th year and in 2008 the charity
hopes 750,000 women will enter one of over 260 events across the UK, to raise
a staggering 50million pounds for research into the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of cancer.
Tesco is a proud partner of Race for Life and to celebrate the 2008 series
Motivating Mates has teamed up with Tesco to offer one lucky reader the chance
to win an exclusive Tesco training kit. The pack contains everything you need
to get ready for Race for Life; including an exercise kit to get you in shape
- comprising a thigh trimmer, two soft hand grips, skipping rope, pair of dumbbells,
all in a handy canvas hanging bag, an iPod Shuffle to get you in the mood, an
iTunes voucher to find the perfect training soundtrack, a Tesco vest to wear
when exercising and a spa voucher so you can relax after a hard training session.
This is the seventh year that Tesco has supported Cancer Research UK’s Race
for Life, a unique series of women-only events, raising money to help Cancer
Research UK beat cancer. To date over 200 million pounds has been raised and
3.4 million women have taken part.
This year there are over 260 events throughout the UK until 27th July. Each
event sees women of all ages and fitness levels walk, jog or run the 5k course,
all raising money for the charity’s life saving work
For more information or to sign up to this year’s Race for Life visit www.raceforlife.org
For your chance to win the Tesco training kit, simply register on MotivatingMates.com
and answer the following question:
Q. How long is the Race for Life course?
a) 10k
b) 5k
c) 50k
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a thigh trimmer, two soft hand grips, skipping rope, pair of dumbbells, all
in a handy canvas hanging bag, an iPod Shuffle to get you in the mood, an iTunes
voucher to find the perfect training soundtrack, a Tesco vest to wear when exercising
and a spa voucher so you can relax after a hard training session.
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The BP Ultimate Locamotion Team Driver
Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboating Series
PERSONAL INFORMATION
NAME: Rose Lores
AGE: 49
HOMETOWN: Addlestone, Surrey
FAMILY: Single mother of two - Clare, 19 and Matt, 18
POWERBOATING HISTORY
RACE DEBUT: Honda Happiness Team, Isle of Man June 2006
FIRST WIN: Newcastle, 2006
WINS TO DATE: Three
TRAINING REGIME: Yoga, on-the-water training
SUPERSTITIONS: Making a list and checking it three times
BIOGRAPHY
Family life and career path
Lores grew up in West London with her adoptive parents. As well as being an architect her father was also a very keen sailor, managing to instil in his daughter not only an interest in architecture, and more specifically interior design, but also a curiosity towards boating. However, it wasn’t the posh yachts that caught her eye but rather the exhilarating sport of powerboating, which unfortunately at that time was an unrequited passion.
Lores left college at the age of 17 and started her first job as a junior accounts clerk, her first step onto the accountancy ladder. After ten years, a career change ensued and Lores moved into the world of IT, where she specialised as a Business Analyst.
In 1995 Lores was made redundant from her role as Business Analyst at Courage, and took this as an opportunity to take two years away from work to spend more time with her children and to explore her roots. Whilst looking for her biological parents, Lores discovered that her natural father was from Cuba and after embarking on a world-wide search, eventually found him in Spain.
In 1997, Lores settled back into full time work as a Business Analyst and then joined Honda (UK) in 2000, where she has remained ever since currently working as a Database Manager.
A new mindset
A holiday with her two children in Andorra, led to Lores learning how to snowboard, which was a key turning point in her life and a new mind-set. “I was all set for going out there and face more and more challenges, proving that you’re never too old to learn something new! Go-karting and ATVs followed next.”
It was not before long that she also discovered yoga, which is how she stays fit, flexible and balanced - which forms a large part of her pre-race fitness regime.
Developing a taste for Powerboating
In the summer of 2005, Lores travelled to Plymouth to watch the Honda Formula 4 Stroke powerboat racing. What she witnessed on the water that day made her go home determined to give powerboat racing a go.
The perfect opportunity came about shortly after the event at Plymouth when Honda announced a competition to select four employees to race a boat in the following year’s season. Only one small factor stood in her way - Lores had an absolute terror of going underwater, to the extent that she couldn’t even submerge her face into a basin of water!
Determined to overcome her fear, Lores went to see a specialist in Neuro Linguistic Programming, who was finally able to cure her fear. Soon after that she was swimming underwater!
The next step was for Lores to carry out an RYA Powerboat Level II course where she gained a certificate in basic boat handling. This was done under the expert guidance of RYA coach Peter White, someone who has continued to support Lores on the water ever since.
Needless to say, Lores made it onto the team of four and after professional training under Neil Holmes who holds seven world powerboating championship titles, the Honda Happiness team were all set to embark upon their challenge.
Lores went on to win three of the five races she drove in for the Honda Happiness team that year, becoming the first (and so far only) female driver ever to win a race in the 150hp class.
Spurred on by this success, Lores was determined to own her own powerboat and run her own team. In order to do so, Lores set upon the challenge of re-modelling and selling her home to raise the funds to buy the boat.
Team Locamotion was born and Lores raced in the 2007 season alongside Sharyn Brown as her navigator, finishing 11 out of 20 boats. Last year’s success spurred Lores on and this year, with the guidance of her new navigator and a boat fuelled by BP Ultimate, a high performance fuel she is determined to win the series.
