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My Marathon Run

Just before Easter I ran my first (and last!) full marathon to raise funds for Suffolk Mind’s ‘Sammy the Sea Squirt’ emotional resilience project for youngsters, and also for local small charities supported by the Club through our Benevolent Fund distributions. Having set a target of £500, we have now raised £1554 to date, thanks to my 59 amazing supporters! After 15 months of training, which involved three runs plus one cardio session each week, I felt as ready as I’d ever be! Actually, that’s a lie. I didn’t feel ready at all. I should have had an additional three months of training if I was to run the marathon in June as planned. I can’t blame the pandemic for curtailing my activities, but the reality was that I’d had enough, both physically and mentally. When it looked as though the Orwell Challenge would be deferred until September I grasped at the opportunity of a quick exit. Not being a quitter I knew I had to complete this run, but I just couldn’t keep going with the training m
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My Year in Running - a Marathon Journey

It is now 15 months since, in a moment of madness, I stuck my neck out and announced publicly that I wanted to run the 2021 Orwell Challenge full marathon! Taking inspiration from the Park Runners I leafleted in the lead up to 2019’s event, and also from a couple of ‘mature’ first time marathon runners I chatted with at our checkpoint that same year, the idea of me running a marathon started brewing in my head! If they could do it, then why couldn’t I? Saying it out loud to myself and to more than one other person really helped to reinforce the idea. Coupled with the fact that I came spectacularly last in the parents’ and grandparents’ race at my grand daughter’s sports day, the gauntlet was well and truly thrown! I remember mentioning the idea to a couple of people shortly after the 2019 OC but immediately dismissed it as being ludicrous. And so, with the encouragement of two other ‘mature’ hopefuls (who incidentally have both since dropped out), I lined up a marathon training guru to
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