Thank you to Paul and Helen for donating your £15 on my Just giving page - this really means a lot. I get a real buzz knowing that something I'm doing is potentially encouraging people to give their hard earned money for the Hospice - and I don't know any rich people! And that buzz translates into motivation for getting out and running. I really, REALLY did not want to run last night. I did my 7 miles on New Years day and had a six to do last evening - but the actual putting on of the trainers was painfully 'oh no!!' but it went OK. My running partner, Amy has been laid up with a rotten cough by Docs orders - apparently new research questions the old view that if you were poorly from the neck up you could run as opposed to the neck down (IE head cold versus chest cough) when you shouldn't. Amy's Doc says 'Cold or cough - no run for a week' - Amy is really disappointed and is out of the long run at the weekend. I was being quite brave thinking I could do it anyway on my own but am delighted that my husband is going to accompany me - we were due to step up from 10 to 11 miles but I'm saving that milestone (honestly, that's how each incremental increase of mileage feels) for when Amy is back on board. So, Amy - get well soon. Brilliantly, she is not wasting her time and is instead, working out her fundraising ideas for her sponsorship for the Hospice.
Anyway, I have 5 miles to do in the morning which I'm looking forward to - short distance + daylight + seawall = happy me!
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Running a marathon is no picnic, unless your picnics consist of bananas and water at five mile intervals, blisters and nipple sores, before collapsing in a noisey wrapping of tin foil! If this does descibe your idea of a picnic then yon've logged onto the wrong website!
I remember running quite a bit about 15 years ago whether rain, sleet or snow, and whether I was well or sick. The philosophy used to be 'no pain, no gain', which translated roughly into 21st Century terms meant 'loads of pain, no brain'. Happily now sports experts acknowledge that a gradual increase in mileage and the use of a variey of training methods without killing yourself is generally preferable. That's good really because I quite like my wife alive.
Jo and Amy seem to be doing really well and have left themselves plenty of training time to accomodate a break for the odd cold. The foreward planning indicates a committment to the long-haul which marathon training involves. But Jo deserves double the donations really because working at a hospice, any hospice, though deelply rewarding and important work, is a marathon in itself.
Double well done.
Love,
Chris
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