My Journey Part 1

2017 became the year when running took on a more serious note.  I loved the feeling that I got after my first race so I booked lots more races.  

I’d seen in a magazine a race advertised in London. Now I love going to London so this seemed ideal.  It wasn’t a really serious race as it was a cancer research one but it was a big one, as in the amount of people who enter it. Twenty thousand people!  The London winter run was a fundraising event for cancer research and a fun event with entertainment around the course. Snow machine at the start, people dressed up as polar bears and penguins, singers and bands. Definitely sounded fun.

I started in January with the girls run the world challenge of running everyday in January as I do love a challenge to keep me motivated. Some days I only ran a mile but every week I ran one run of at least 10k. In preparation for the London winter run.

I successfully completed the challenge and got the T-shirt. Then it was the weekend of the race, we travelled down to London on Friday evening so I could do a spot of parkrun tourism Saturday morning. I know most people don’t run the day before a race but I can’t not do parkrun if I’m away from my hometown. So off to Southwark parkrun my husband and I went.  I took it easy so not to over do it. Although my time of 26.49 wasn’t bad.

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Race day came and I was nervous but excited, we arrived at Trafalgar Square and I’ve never seen so many people! This was Big!  

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The race went well and I loved every minute of it, the crowds, the entertainment and the polar bears.  

After this I entered lots of local races from 5k’s to 5 milers to another 10k.  Including Race for life with my mum and the Colour run with lots of family members for a bit of fun.

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• Race for Life
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Then I made the decision to run a half marathon. What was I thinking! 13.1 miles!

November came and so did my first half marathon, it was scary but I’d done the training, I was ready and I think my time showed this.  2 hours 7 minutes and 39 seconds, I was so proud of myself.

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The next challenge, The London Marathon.  A charity place, I needed to train to run 26.2 miles and raise £2000 for Get Kids Going.  It was going to be hard but I could do this!

The Next Challenge

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