Well I've had some rather exciting and new experiences this week and feel a little bit like some sort of minor celeb! Firstly, I've been luck that a gym in my local town, Heathwise Fitness, heard about me doing the marathon and that I was raising money for the MAIN Project and so they have very kindly offered to give me free membership over the next few months whilst I'm training so that I can use their treadmill when the weather is too bad / too off putting to get out and get the miles in I need to! They have also offered to put in the first £50 sponsor money and to ask their members to sponsor me too - absolutely brilliant! Healthwise is a local gym, not a multi-million pound mega-gym and I can imagine in the current economic climate they're struggling to survive and keep their heads above water like a lot of other businesses so it's even more lovely and exciting that they have offered to support me and the charity in this way! Thank you!
My second pseudo-celeb experience is that I've just been interviewed by the local paper who have heard about my fundraising as they are currently running a series of articles about fundraising for the MAIN project and so would like to do one on me too. I don't think I've ever been interviewed by a newspaper before and it's a strange experience thinking that you have to choose every word carefully so as not to say anything silly. Thankfully it wasn't too scary and the lady who I spoke to, Emma, was lovely. They want to come out and take a photo of me in my running gear though so I think I'll have to check a few outfits out in the mirror as I'm pretty sure that I've never looked particularly good when I'm going out for a run (especially with the knee high bright pink compression socks on) so I'll have to find the least ridiculous combination!
Feeling surprisingly healthy and lively this morning despite a hard 10k run around Gateshead last night with my friend around a route we like to call the "bum blaster" due to the ridiculous hills the first few miles offer up! Nice views of the Angel of the North to try and compensate for the pain but last night it was shrouded in mist which made it all feel abit eerie as though I was in a bad dream or something! We also engaged in another of the daft running games I get drawn into - trying to get to your target distance when you miscalculate it! This involved us running round and round the block when we got back to her house to get up to 10k - stopping short of this is just not an option! I'm pretty sure I splashed in the same puddle about four times - doh! We're hoping to beat our time (and calculate the distance better) next week so watch this space......!
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