I'm on the charity trail again!
Ages ago, I signed up to Race For Life's pretty muddy 5k with a group of friends as a fun challenge to hopefully raise a bit of money in aid of cancer research. Last week, being the kind of person to never just do on thing at a time, I decided to tie in another running streak with my fundraising efforts.Why? Well there's a couple of reasons. Some selfless and charitable, others not so much:
1) I'll start with the selfless and charitable one. Basically, I felt a bit of a crook asking people to sponsor me to do a 5k when I regularly do them already. To me, sponsoring someone is done because they're challenging themselves in some way.
2) I think this is a two-fold fairly valid reason. I've got my final Uni deadline coming up and I can't afford to let my training slip the way it did with the last deadline. Especially when I need to start building up my stamina and mileage for the proper half marathon training to start once I've handed my assignment in. Plus when I'm all wrapped up with Uni stress it will do me good to being committed to getting out for at least 20 minutes every day.
3) This is entirely vain but... when I did my running streak at Christmas it had definite advantages to my muscle definition and, well... it's legs out season!
So lying in bed the other night I decided it would be a great idea to do a streak and finish it off with Race for Life on 1st July.
I've set a couple of little rules for it because I'm slightly obsessed with structure so these are:
- Run or swim every day (I'm including swims because when I did my advent streak my legs were constantly sore so I'll be kind to them at least once a week
- Each run or swim must last for at least 20 minutes
- I don't have to run on the 10th June as I'm in London all day visiting my friend. But I do have to make that run up another day.
If you've got this far down my post you must be somewhat entertained by it... therefore please support me by heading over to my donation page!
