Day 38 - 29 June 2013 - A Funny Sort of Day

                                                     Today has been a funny sort of day

It should have been Julie and Andrew's wedding day, but Julie contracted an infection due to her blood count being so low and is in hospital for the next few days. Although bitterly disappointed that they have had to postpone the wedding, they really had no choice, and all that matters is that she is in the best place and is being well looked after.

 Jeannette has also got another infection and has also had to go to hospital.

It would be really nice if these two lovely ladies could be given a bit of a break.

So plans have had to be changed, and I need to carry on training. I haven't been doing too bad, but it is oh, so slow. I'm sticking to the running app, but the longest I've been able to run non stop is eight minutes....and it was the longest eight minutes of my life. So it came as a bit of a shock to find out that today, my friends, the app is telling me that I will be running for 20 whole minutes. NON STOP.

The app must be broken.

How in God's name does it expect me to be able to run for 20 whole minutes. NON STOP.

I must be on the wrong week. So I check it. And check it again. Then gave it a good shake, but no. It still wants me to run 20 minutes. NON STOP.

The person who designed this must really hate fat birds trying to run.

So I told Natalie that we have to run 20 minutes. NON STOP. She was sort of fine with it seeing as she had eaten 12 chocolate covered marshmallow gooey things on sticks at the kids prom last night. I had only eaten 4, so I don't really need as much exercise as her at this point, but if the app says we are going to have to run 20 minutes. NON STOP, then that is what we are going to have to do.

We planned it carefully. As we are not ones to shirk, we planned to walk 2 and a half miles first which brings us to the brow of a hilly bit, so we can start by running downhill, back home.

I feel sick. Natalie feels sick. But off we go. And go we did.

I can't pretend it was easy, cos it wasn't. But we kept going, and going and going. Despite not wanting to keep clock watching, I was obsessed with it, and the first 19 and a half minutes felt like forty and the last 30 seconds felt like another 40 minutes, but all I could think of was that if Julie and Jeannette can stay strong and fight this horrible disease than I can bloody well run for 20 minutes. NON STOP. And so

WE DID IT!!!!

I got home and cried and vomited. I'm not sure in what order.

We guessed that we ran for probably about 1 and a half miles. Very slow, but a HUGE achievement seeing as 6 weeks or so ago, I cried after running for 1 minute.

And I've only got to keep going for 4 times longer to complete the 10K!!!!!

Oh and Rhydd has designed our Team LOGO

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