<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update:</span></strong>&nbsp;Well I did the 10K run today; I made it round in one piece and ran the whole way. &nbsp;I'm waiting for my official time to be published on the <a title="Lincoln 10K site" href="http://lincoln10k.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lincoln 10K website</a>&nbsp;but I know that I have run it quicker than I have in training. &nbsp;A huge, massive THANK YOU to everyone who has sponsored me - my target originally started at &pound;100 but I have had to raise it 4 fold since. &nbsp;It's all going to a good cause &amp; this page will stay open until 3/7/11 for donations. &nbsp;I may have to sign up to run another 10K!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Bex</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This started as a bit of a joke a few years ago when I challenged my husband that I could run the Lincoln 10K quicker than him, even though I was smoking 20 a day. &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>I reached 40 years of age, re-evaluated my life and I gave up smoking on 29th June 2010. &nbsp;Then tragedy struck my good friend Jo just under a year ago when she lost her partner, Henry, in a motorbike accident just 10 weeks before their first child was born. &nbsp;I decided to run the Lincoln 10K to both raise money for the <a title="Lincolnshire &amp; Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance charity" href="http://www.ambucopter.org.uk/" target="_self">local Air Ambulance</a> charity, which is a favourite amongst motorbike enthusiasts, and to celebrate the fact that I am now successfully smoke-free after 27 years! &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>So please dig deep and donate now, and don't forget to Gift Aid it!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Many thanks</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Becky</p>