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Today, not for the first time, someone who I’ve never met reached out to me via my Just Giving page to say thank you for inspiring them. No ulterior motive, no giving to get something in return, just a genuine act of kindness. It’s easy to forget that such things exist sometimes (one person was […]
Tomorrow morning I will get up at 6:30, maybe 6:45 at a push. I’ll eat my porridge, drink my coffee and tea, have a banana and then get ready to go and run a marathon. I have the routine pretty much down now, so much so that it’s almost clockwork, because I’ve done exactly the […]
So yesterday was a strange day. I got told I can no longer be a run leader for ones of my running clubs. The exact words were “We can’t have you representing our club” It hit me pretty hard. Like telling Kel that he can’t have orange soda hard. Leading runs and volunteering was the […]
When I was young I was terrified of flying monkeys along with Miss Hannigan and the Nazis amongst a billion other things including probably my own shadow. So much so that I think my biggest fear was, and still is, fear itself. Just the thought of being scared terrifies me (all you have to do […]
Today I had the pleasure of meeting some amazing people at Warrington Disability Partnership as part of my 52 marathons in 52 weeks challenge. When I decided to run the 52 in 52 I knew it would be a one off huge challenge for me. For some crazy people I know, running 26.2 miles […]
Do you know that moment when some crazy plan that you’ve hatched starts to become a reality? I had one of those moments a few days ago when I entered Lanzarote marathon. It had always been on the plan to do a marathon then, I was just waiting for the awesome amazing woman that is […]
