Joining The Hundreds

Having completed the Race for Life 5km run for two years previously, I decided this year that I would step it up a notch in the aim to get myself physically and mentally ready for the Great South Run in October this year. Also I was running in memory of a good friend, Colin, who we lost last year.

I signed up for the Race for Life 10km run in Bournemouth quite a few months ago hoping to 'up' my training and prepare for the race. having said that, as June got closer and closer and I became busier and busier with work and life, I started to feel like I might not have put in enough distance in me little legs. Now, I did say that as this was my first 10km run I was not doing it to get a good time or certain speed but to just run the course and see how I got on. And I truly believed that for the first 2 minutes of the run on Sunday 20th June, but it soon went out the window and I was determined to put in a decent time and finish well.

It was brilliantly beautiful day, we could not have asked for better weather. Sunny, warm, calm and I was one of over 790 women who came to Bournemouth Pier to run in the first Race for Life 10km race.

I was properly pleased with myself as I put in a decent time completing the race and I felt really good at the end however with a slightly pink, sweaty face!!

It was an amazing atmosphere running with the other ladies all remembering and running for someone special and Race for Life and Cancer Research UK do an amazing job of bringing awareness and research to helping save many lives.