My biggest challenge…

10 years ago I had my first kid, what followed was 3 miscarriages and 2 more children so my body has been pretty busy with the whole baby thing and mentally I have been truly absorbed by them. Their needs and wants and their frigging mess everyday.  As my youngest has left me for school I decided I would run a half marathon. I do love running but I am more your 5km kind of runner, but I ran a half marathon 10 years ago. Surely not much has changed. Fuck yeah it’s changed! I am dragging my sorry arse and weak pelvic floor out for a run 3 times a week. Also noticed a half a marathon got really long!!! Secondly I got really slow.  Which has made me question if I ever was faster than this or it’s all in my imagination because surely we can still do all the same things we did 10 years ago at the same pace?

Obviously not and it looks like it’s not just me. Phew!

New study published last month in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, by Dr. DeVita and his colleagues from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick shows   each decade  runners’ stride length and preferred speed dropped by about 20 percent. This is all down to the muscles in our lower legs and ankles, So there is a reason I am getting slower, which made me feel  a bit better.

I also decided I should try and raise something for charity. As I am in that  emotional state where everything I read about makes me cry. Cruelty man – to the  planets, animals, the old to the young, to the sick to the friggin’ everything, I am just bawling. So it was hard to choose but this time I am trying to raise £350 for Miscarriage association. Been there 3 times and it never got any easier and I may have 3 little pigs now but can’t still  talk about my other 3 without feeling lost without them.

When you consider the amount people have to raise for running marathons’s I feel this is do-able. The mileage I am finding it bloody hard and sore but I still have 3 weeks to go and I have managed 10 miles so I am thinking on a good day;  doable.

So what’s the challenge Rani? The challenge is this. When I contacted miscarriage

Should have got a bigger size…

Association I was running a steady happy 5km and I thought Yes! I am so getting into running again and I will get back into weights  and  lose weight and I will be AWESOME!!!!!! Again how friggin’ wrong I was. Yes I have ran, no I haven’t been near a weight  and I am not looking friggin’ awesome I am looking quite the opposite. So over the next 3 weeks not only do I have to get those miles into my legs so I can finish it with some sort of dignity but also now I have to lose weight to fit into the bloody vest they sent me to run in!!!!

Wish me luck or if you fancy it sponsor me to get round. x

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