It has been a while since I found some time to update my blog. Like everyone, life has its busy times; home, work, study, hobbies it has been a very busy period all in all.
Thankfully the studies are over for now. The exam was pants (don’t ask), three more weeks until the results, I am expecting a re-sit on this one. I take heart that the majority of people on the course also felt the same over the questions set. Fingers crossed I might just have done enough to get through.
Life continues very much the same on the home front, we have good days and not so good days. We have great days and some terrible days but such is life and you just have to get on with it. I can be very tired for days and other days full of energy. On the whole, things have been much easier of late, I’ve put this down to the long Summer days and the lovely bright days, even if we aren’t getting what you would call long, hot, Summer days…I still live in hope for some of those during July and August.
I am pleased to report that I completed the 9 week Couch to 5K podcast and I cannot express how pleased I am with myself that I can run for 30 minutes. What an achievement when in February I couldn’t run for 30 seconds. Yesterday I completed the 5K Race for Life for Cancer Research. I am so proud of my medal. It was a fabulous experience, 2284 women, all in various states of Pink either walking or running 5K. A minute of silence was held before the race started and it was very emotional, I could feel tears in my eyes thinking about the reasons we were all there, raising money for such a worthwhile cause. Really, is there any family untouched by Cancer of some sort?
I intend to keep up the running, I do have a love/hate relationship with it. It is an effort to get ready to go out after a day at work and it is an even bigger effort to start running whilst you are out there. But you know, once you get going, you feel so good, the music plays from the iPod, the wind blows, the sun may shine, it may even rain on you but that feeling of wellbeing, freedom in the mind, exhaustion and yes a few aches, is unbeatable. Sometimes you just need that half hour to escape the real world.
Here are a couple of pictures of me from the Race for Life yesterday.
Thank you for reading my Blog. I hope to be updating it on a much more regular basis from now on 🙂
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