Week 10 of 12 – back to work

This week I ran 10km – back to my usual routine. It was good to get back to my running after two weeks of lounging around with a sore knee. Even better to manage two my runs at 10km/h without any distress. I’m entering the final countdown now for race day on 12th October. So fingers crossed my knee will stay quiet.

I’m incredibly proud to be part of the brainstrust team running in the Royal Parks Half Marathon. Amazingly we managed to secure 55 places in this, the first year of a new half marathon, and another 2 volunteers got places through the public draw and chose to run for brainstrust. That’s 57 runners altogether! Not bad for a dynamic young charity. It’s really fantastic to see how much support is being gathered in by this one event. So a big thank you to everyone taking part and everyone supporting our team.

With two weeks to go team brainstrust has just passed the £10,000 mark! Our aim is to raise over £15,000 for brain tumour patients.  You must check out my fellow runners for brainstrust. There are some amazing stories playing out around this big run.

Can you image a giant brain on top?

Anyway, back to my little run. I’m confident and definitely going to do my utmost on the day. Not to mention that I’ll be wearing a very special giant brain hat made for me by Caroline – a good friend and great costume supervisor I met during my time at Wicked.

Caroline has agreed to turn a simple white cap into a giant brain hat for my brainstrust run. A brilliant idea, although I’m still not 100% sure whether or not I will end up looking like a monster from a 1950’s horror b-movie!

This week I’ve also really pushed ahead with my sponsorship. I got round to splitting all my friends on Facebook into groups of 20 so I could send them all a message to ask for their support. Fingers crossed they’re feeling generous.

So just in case you, dear reader, have missed the opportunity. Here’s my Justgiving page – the easiest way to sponsor my half marathon