I opened my emails today to find that I had been sponsored £52 by a fellow runner Krissy who is wonderful but who I have only met the once - admittedly we did get very drunk!  I was so chuffed and emailed my marathon buddy Mandy to tell her about it and that I was only £17 short of reaching £1600 (the amount I guarenteed to raise for my charity)

Mandy then went to my justgiving site and sponsored me the other £17 to take me over my target by 1p!  I love her!

Then one of my neighbours put an envelope with £10 in through my door for sponsorship as well.  So a wonderful start to the day.

I have just sent out another begging email to various friends and family as it is pay day for most folks today or tomorrow.  Nothing has boinged up yet but am hopeful that people will take pity on me and get me to £2000 before too much longer.

I also have a cake sale at school on the 13th March and an 80's disco on 15th March so pretty optomistic that £2k is reachable (is that even a word?)

 
First Post! 02/24/2008
 

Well I managed my first ever 18 mile run this week.  I wish I could say it was a breeze but I found it quite hard and was very tired for the last 3 miles.  Because I was achey and quite frankly a bit bored by this point I speeded up and ended up running the last few miles at a far faster pace than the first 15.

A beautiful run though in Windsor Great Park and I tried some new paths that I had never been on before - pity they were mainly hilly but I suppose it is good exercise.

Before I left my mum told me not to do too much - I did point out that as I was going out to run 18 miles it was a pointless thing to say - how much is too much?

I am fairly confident about the marathon just worried that I will go out too fast and not have anything left in the tank for the last few miles.  I mean after the 18 miler did I have enough left to run another 8 miles?  Not sure I did.  Still I have another 7 weeks to train to make sure that I can.

7 weeks today - a rest week this week of 3 x 6 miles and then the following week we go up to 20 miles - my longest run ever - again!