I must be mad 😅 After last year’s success doing the Abbey Dash, I decided to up the distance and try doing the half marathon. Everything was going smoothly, training was going well… and then a couple of months ago I had a respiratory infection, which entirely stopped my training… took a long while to start running again, but breathing was suddenly so much harder, it’s slowed my pace significantly. I wasn’t going to let that stop me… so I carried on. Few short runs later I developed an issue with my IT band, which meant after about 20 mins my knee would hurt a lot causing me to stop running again. Seemed that nothing was helping with the knee pain. I was ready to give my place in the race to someone else. I was devastated as not only this challenge was important to me, to prove to myself that I can do it, but also the charity I have chosen to support means a lot to me. Seen first hand recently how many people close to me struggle with mental health.

So here I am. 6 weeks to go. Did my first 15k run yesterday. Still a long way to go, so please send positive energy!

And THANK YOU in advance from the bottom of my heart for supporting my huge challenge and donating whatever you can, it will make a massive difference.