Well less than a week to go until the London Marathon. I'm thinking this time next week I might be a little stiff and achy. Cant wait to be part of the biggest marathon in the world though, what an amazing achievement. A few years back I struggled walking - period!!!! Now I run nearly everyday. Wow it is a bit surreal when I think about it like that. I couldn't have done all this without the amazing support from my Hunk of Hoo and my children though, their all so proud of me and never stop telling me that. After the marathon I might get my life back, well for a few days at least as the week after it's the Blackpool 10k then the Great North Run in September, thinking we might even squeeze in the Preston Guild Marathon, well we'll see, I haven't done my first marathon yet lol. So for now we'll just keep training up until Friday. Thought I might pull it back more this last week but I'm finding when I don't run for a day or two it's really hard to get back into it and my breathing etc goes, so for now I'm just concentrating on getting through this week and then trying to enjoy everything the London Marathon has to offer. I know it's going to be mind over matter on the day, but I feel I'm strong enough and can do it. I know that when I hit the wall on the run the thought of what our inspirational children have come through and still have to go through will be enough to get me to the finishing line without stopping. Chris is wearing a photo of Christopher in Intensive Care when we nearly lost him last year on his running vest. He wore it at last years Great North Run and I so need to see it. Every so often I kissed it x. That half marathon run was totally mind over matter as I had been sat next to Christopher caring for him in hospital all summer and I had put on roughly a stone and a half through that really tough time, so when we eventually brought Christopher home we got 2 and a half weeks training before the GNR, which was ridiculous after both of us never running since our school days. Anyway, we did it, so I definitley know that when I need to I can certainly find enough inner strength in life.
We all had an amazing weekend in the Forrest household. Millie did a PB in her second discus event at Wigan on Sunday and she came 2nd, 'GO MILLIE'. Then our Alex played in two golf comps on Sunday and played 2 under her par?!?!? (what ever that means, I think it's a good thing lol). Her handicap has now been dropped to 12, 'GO ALEX'. Then I did a chefs demo at the MS Life Event at the Manchester Gmex Centre. It all went incredibly well, the team behind the cookery demo theatre said they wanted to book me for the next one and I've also got another 2 chefs demo's booked in. Very exiting stuff as it's my dream job and I so enjoy it, well what's there not to enjoy, it's all my fave things - talking, having a laugh, cooking, baking and meeting lots of lovely people!!!!!!x
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