One week to Reading!!!

One week to the first race of the year - how did this happen??

Training started up again properly not long after Christmas, but I spent the Winter months keeping fit in Finsbury Park doing British Military Fitness - 1 hour 3 times a week of rolling in the mud or bruising my knees on the frozen ground in snow, sleet and rain - so much fun - where else can you give people piggy backs, do wheelbarrows and forward (or as we called them now 'combat') rolls??

So this year I am hoping to raise money for Cancer Research UK and an event called Relay For Life. I helped organise 2 of these events last year - the first up in Birmingham which, in it's first year, we raised over £20,000. The second was in Harrow where, in it's 3rd year, we raised over a staggering £70,000

This year I have the very scary role of being co-chair for the Harrow Relay, but am really looking forward to being part of a team there as well - the B-team.

The event runs over 24hours, we do lots of fundraising in advance - where the running comes in - and on the day, as a team, we spend 24 hours walking around a running track, hopefully spending a wonderful day raising yet more money and raising cancer awareness.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/relay/venues/harrow/ - this is the link for the Relay itself, but also links through to more information about Relay For Life - they're all over the country, so if there's one near you, go take part!! Or you can turn up on the day as a spectator and see what it's all about

http://www.donatetomyrelay.org/thebteam - this is our team's fundraising page - it's looking very empty just now, but we're each hoping to raise over £200 each - we're also very aware that this year is going to be a difficult time for fundraising, but anything you can spare will be going towards a fantastic cause - it's a sad fact that 1 in 3 of us will be affected by cancer and CRUK are working very hard to making those odds better.

So on to my runs for this year.....

Planned so far are

Reading Half 29th March

Hose Half 12th April - Easter Sunday - so think of me when you're eating your eggs

Edinburgh Marathon 31st May - the biggy - hopefully will avoid the Wombles this year

Great North Run 20th September - the weekend after Relay

There's also the Birmingham Half and the Royal Parks Half later in the year


So just a quiet year really....... if you happen to be in/near any of these places please come and give me a cheer, or just meet up for lunch afterwards!

In fact after today's run I can highly recommend The Flask in Highgate and their very good burgers, and James can vouch for their roast beef......


Come back and check up on the training and maybe more food reviews!!

emma