Back on my feet and doing something new!

Not much to report training-wise as a result of last week's knee injury! Turned out I was in a fair bit of pain with it for a good few days so I didn't end up doing any running until today.

With Dementia Awareness Week starting today, I thought I'd dedicate this blog post to the cause of all my running and talk a bit more about the charity I'm hoping to raise a good bit of money for!

To be honest, I don't know huge amounts about it, so writing this week's blog has been a good chunk of motivation for me as I've been reading up on how my fundraising could help.

So a few things I've learned are:

• 850,000 people in the UK are currently living with Dementia
• Too many of these aren't enjoying the quality of life they could/should be
• 7 out of 10 people of these are also living with another illness
• Dementia costs the UK £26.5 billion every year, but a huge chunk of this is the cost to unpaid carers and their families
• There's a massive spending gap on research, much more could be done if the money was available
• Roughly one person every three minutes develops Dementia

This year's Dementia Awareness Week centres around the #dosomethingnew campaign, with the sentiment that just because a person has been daignosed with Dementia, it doesn't mean they can't carry on living as 'normal' and exciting life possible. There's some interesting stories here all about this. 

I did something new today - I did an outdoor run for the first time! It wasn't too bad - once I got through the paranoia that everyone was looking and laughing I actually quite enjoyed it. It wasn't easy, my fitness has definitely dropped in the last seven days with the lack of exercise!

Please don't forget that these blog posts aren't just a jolly bit of reading every Sunday evening, I'd really love it if they made you want to sponsor me! Race day is eight weeks away and it's safe to say I'm starting to get scared!