I’m in that mass of people. We gathered in Preston Park at 8:30 yesterday morning, where I met up with a handful of the Run Mummy Run community, and chatted in particular to one lovely lady [edit: it was Lisa Jay, who was a star!] as we queued roughly forever for the race toilets… And then…
Category: Alzheimer’s Society
Positives
So a little while ago, I attended a training day with Tom Craggs of Running With Us. One of the things I took from that was that the last week before the race was tough. I’m busy doing visualisations of myself crossing the finishing line. I’m pretty sure I’m going to do a 4:1 run:walk…
The final push
I’m so grateful to all of you wonderful people who have sponsored me – and left such lovely messages on my JustGiving page!! Thank you so very, very much. It’s such a fabulous charity, and does massively important work for so many people. I’ve nearly hit my £1,200 target – 81% of the way there. This…
Silverstone Half Marathon
So. I just ran my first official half marathon. Round the F1 race track at Silverstone! Which should be pretty awesome, and the bling was certainly impressive, but let’s get the negatives out of the way… As it turns out, running round a race track is not the most interesting way to spend a lunchtime…
Climbing the mountain
A little while ago, I read a book called Elizabeth is Missing; a mystery novel where the story is narrated by an elderly woman who has dementia. Her condition worsens over the course of the novel, but her voice gives an insightful, imaginative and powerful view of the world from the eyes of a someone…
Roaring into the wind
It’s been a funny old week; heralded in by a storm pulling half the guttering off the front of the house which woke us up at 4am, and see-sawed its way into a migraine-filled, dehydrated, wakeful dawn. Heralded out by winds and rain and my longest ever long run… The migraine knocked my training out….
Gold stars
One of the best ideas from the training session at The Alzheimer’s Society in London, a couple of weeks ago, was to end every week by pulling out three positives. That way, the thinking goes, when you’re approaching the big day and full of the maranoia, you can look back over your training journal and…
Running through London
I had a totally fabulous day, yesterday. It was cold, and it was hard work and boy oh boy I know all about it, today. But it was totally fabulous, all the same! I got up at 6am, as you do on a Saturday. Wriggled and shiggled myself into my running clothes, as you do…
The what, the why, the ****
This is my journal. I’m learning to run. I have a place in the Silverstone Half Marathon in March 2016 and the Brighton Marathon in April 2016. I’m raising money for the Alzheimer’s Society, which is a charity very dear to my heart. Running a whole marathon when you don’t have much experience is a…
Running Between The Water Stations 