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