From February 5th 2010
I've been training for the Virgin London Marathon since the beginning of January, battled through the snow and finally a couple of weeks ago was told that I did have a place to run for the charity Relate. I should confess that I also work for Relate so am in a brilliant position to be able to tell people about the fantastic work we do to help build positive, healthy relationships.
Relate hasn't had a marathon place before so we're playing catch up on fundraising but watch this space for information how to give. In the meantime find out more about how we support people with their relationship difficulties through counselling, sex therapy and education and learning from our websites www.relate.org.uk and www.relateforparents.org.uk.
Fortunately my training seems to be more or less on track. I've had great encouragement from everyone at work and from my friends and family. I quite enjoy the looks of half admiration/ half you must be crazy when I announce I've been for a run and give a distance which to me no longer seems a long way.
This week I've done two 4 mile runs and seems to have finally loosened up my calf muscles. I've also joined a local gym so I have some back up if we get some really bad weather again. Looking forward to a long run on Sunday when I've got 10 miles programmed in and have a probably unrealistic ambition to get up really early in the morning so as to have some of the day left to go out to play!
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