The last post.

A few months ago, I was sort of expecting my final post to be full of nervous optimism and excitement for race day, sadly that’s not how its ended up.

Next time I decide to do a half marathon, someone remind me not to do it at the end of my busiest week at work and the weekend I move. 

The weeks leading up to the busy week at work (stress) and moving (house viewing every night) have left me exhausted, not to mention left me eating very badly (getting in late, lots of cereal dinners, and no lunch preparation).  All this has culminated in more than a few bad runs in the last few week (even a 5k is a struggle) which then led to me being completely exhausted and lacking confidence, so that now I haven’t run for a week.  I finally plucked up courage and desire to run on Wednesday when we had a family emergency (resulting in more stress).  So not how I wanted to go into my first ever half marathon, I don’t even know if I can run a few meters anymore let alone 13.2 miles.  I’m sort of left feeling like I’ve done no training what so ever, but I know that anything I could have done this week would add nothing to my race. L

One big thing I wish I had done more of was more long runs, the few I did (two 10s, one 12, and a couple of 8s) were a big struggle, and I don’t feel prepared enough for them to have improved any for Sunday

My biggest hope is that I have a good run day on the day, that my legs will co-operate (and my lungs) and that the atmosphere and scenery will distract me.

One really good thing though is that I’ve broken my fundraising target.  Initially when I got this place in the RPH, I wasn’t going to fundraise, but later decided I would, and for Alzheimer’s Association, a cause very close to my heart (my dad suffered from and died from Alzheimer’s/Dementia) so it means the world for me to have raised so much.  And I’ll be 100% honest a week or two ago I realised that if I hadn’t been raising funds for them I would have just said forget it to the half, as I feel totally unprepared for it, and feel like a sleep in on Sunday would probably benefit me far more than running 13 miles.  So a massive thank you for anyone reading this who has sponsored me.

Also just noticed, to date I've received 21 donations (21 is my lucky/favourite number, a good omen perhaps...)

Anyway, wish me luck, report back in 13.2 miles time ….