Under a week to the half Marathon!

Ok, so in a weeks time we will have run the Great Bentley half marathon! Just writing that is strange, it seems it was only a little while ago that Amy and I were struggling to run once around Great Bentley Green! Ruth (your comments make me laugh so much and how terrifying to turn one's computer on at work only to find that someone (?) has put 30 or so copies of the photo of me running on the screen! Anyway, Ruth your tentative beginnings as a runner are spot on - you are doing it safely and it won't be long till you are doing a half marathon - seriously - the rate of increase of fitness is staggering and really encouraging - that's the best thing about running. Plus there are no gym fee's, you only need to splash out on a decent pair of trainers - you can go anytime that suits you - you're out in the fresh air - you can choose to run by yourself and 'think/run things through' (I like doing this for half my runs) or run with someone else and talk non-stop (I like doing this for the other half of my runs). It isn't all wonderful - I have to say that I really struggled driving to Amy's to do the 12 miler on Saturday - I just wasn't looking forward to running for two hours + around Great Bentley - but once we got started it went really well. The thing that really, really helps is knowing that that money is trickling in - I had an anonymous donation of £100!!!! Unbelievable! That REALLY helps and motivates me.
I am about to start a Monday at work, and this is why I'm running for the Hospice. The clients I work for and the colleagues I work with.
Anyway, more about the training later.