Snow and Sponsors

Evening!

Just sitting down to catch up on a bit of blogging with a glass of red. Wine is of course an essential part of my training regime - almost as important as chocolate, and a snow plough!

Having arrived pretty late to the Twitter party in the last few months, amongst all the stuff I'm looking at from a work point of view I must admit to following a few just for the giggles. None make me laugh more than the fake Queen (Elizabeth Windsor, @Queen_UK if you're interested) and her post today was:

'Dear the weather. Just to confirm, it's APRIL. Regards, the Queen.'

Couldn't have said it better myself! It has snowed all day. Not settling, but nevertheless snowing. (No this is not Groundhog Day - it is I promise a new entry to this blog) I fear come marathon day if it's even a teeny bit warm we'll all be dropping like flies from dehydration having got used to running in the freezing cold!

Still - managed to sneak a run in. Indoors! Never mind a treadmill to protect my foot - it's all about protection from the elements now! A friend had my boys so that I could run - just one of the huge number of ways people have shown their support is the way friends and family have helped me to shoehorn this into my life!

The response to sending out sponsorship messages on facebook and by email has been absolutely overwhelming. Not just the generosity of the pledges, but the lovely words of support have been just incredible to read.  It feels like every time I check my phone there's another lovely message. I had hoped to be working towards £1000 by now, and am at almost twice that. Unbelieveable! It's not helping with the crying though frankly! There is a lot of weeping going on - it's getting embarrassing - it's out on the road, it's in the gym, it's on the train when I see a message - this blubbing is getting everywhere!

And joking aside for a moment - I am truly, profoundly and deeply grateful. Thank you so very very much.

Not to mention really excited to raise a serious bit of cash for this cause. This is all such an amazing experience in ways I never imagined.

My Mum's local quiz night raised £30 last might - and several made their own personal donations too which is fabulous. The cakes also raised £30 which is brill.

Thoughts are now turning to what to wear? I see you rolling your eyes but this is a genuine concern for several reasons...
1 If it is warm, the clothes I've been wearing and which have kept me a remarkably, and thankfully, chaffing free zone, will be too warm, so I will have to wear something different and could be in all manner of scratchy trouble!

2 Do I wear something bright on my head so that people can spot me?

3 If I wear something easy to spot that could mean that I am captured on film forever with sparkly deely boppers on my head. Although to be fair, I think there is footage of that from the eighties from when I wasn't being ironic or attempting to be highly visible so I guess it's already out there.

4 I go red when I run. Very red. Very red indeed. I need to hide my face otherwise St Johns ambulance will be running after me the entire way assuming I'm about to keel over.

Right - off to stretch a bit, foam roll a bit and send some thank you messages.

Cheers all.

L
xx