Just the Beginning.

Right,I suppose I better explain how I got to this point in my life. I have the occasional flashback to me earlier attempts at running. I had decided that my first race would be a Cancer Research 10k at Sutton park Oct 2008. I chose this one as at the time they were funding research into HLH. I had been losing a bit of weight with Slimming world and felt that I could undertake this new challenge with the right training.My training regime consisted of  a bit of walking with a few half hearted attempts at running with a lot of Cake eating thrown in, I mean how hard can a 10k be?
A couple of people had decided they would run with me in Memory of Cameron so on a very wet and soggy morning we stood at the start line proudly wearing our tribute shirts. I was so confident that I could run most if it,how wrong I was.
I remember charging off at the start trying to keep up with the proper running types up at the front. About 3/4 of a mile and I had already stopped to walk as I was struggling and suddenly I realised that I had been a bit daft and really hadn't taken it seriously.
The atmosphere was so good though and we weren't the only ones who were taking it easy. We had got chatting to a lovely young lad called Glen who had agreed to run with his work. They had all run off and left him and he was finding it really tough so we decided to hang back and help him out. I knew at this point we were pretty much going to be last so making new friends seemed to be a good idea.
By the time we hit 8k we had gathered a few more lovely ladies so decided that we would all go over the Finnish together. As we came up to the end we saw that most of the crowd had gone but a few wonderful people had stayed to cheer us in. I will never forget how amazing we all felt to get to the end together in a time of 1h 35. We had laughed,we had cried,we had struggled and probably said a few words we shouldn't but we met some fab people and it is a day I will never forget. Little did I know then how things would turn out.