Training

I have been training with Gill (second left) and our two other friends Jennie and Lisa, for over a year now. This picture was the completion of our first target, The British London 10km in July!! We all ran it under the hour, so were really very pleased and it gave me and Gill the confidence to get training for the GNR!

We have been following a 12 week training schedule for the GNR and with less than a month to go now, we are now running 1 hour and a half comfortably (at last!).

Tomorrow morning we are running for an hour and a half, and Gill and myself have both had tired legs this week, so tomorrow maybe challenging, but we shall see!!!!!!!!

Great North Run

I started running at age 8. I began running for Bedford & County Athletics Club and competed in cross country Under 9's, and progressed through the years to under 19, when I left to go to University. At Loughborough University I ran only for myself to keep fit and in the second year decided to enter the London Marathon. I completed the Marathon in April 2001 and since then I have only ever run in charity fundraising events.

Now I live in Sunbury and have a great group of friends who I have encouraged to run with me. Four of us run regularly and Gill Townsend (Team Lucozade - is one of them)!

Gill and myself are very excited about running the GNR this year and have put more training in than ever before for this run so hope to do as well as we can for our charity Kings College Hospital.

One of our friends has servere diabetes and we are running for the nurses that help her directly at Kings College Hospital, so it makes the run all that much more important to us and our friends and families. Our friend has suffered massively from diabetes and now she can not work, so we feel really proud that we can raise money for her