My second fundraiser for TBACT was just before i went travelling in November 2011, i was about to leave the UK for 4-5 months to travel south east asia, New Zealand, Australia and America.
So in the middle of November whilst still in the midst of working full time and preparing to leave the UK i thought - god i'm going to be out of the country for the best part of 6 months i have to do something now to raise some money for TBACT... so with two and a half weeks training time i signed up for a half marathon with my sister.
Appropriately titled... Sisterhood V Half Marathon!
Don't get me wrong, anyone that knows me knows that i love training and am a regular gym goer, doing the odd bit of running, but by no means was i ready to run 13.5 miles in two weeks and a half time.
We were running at 10pm in the evening, 6am in the morning - litterally anytime that we had to run we ran... for anyone who runs you will know just how hard it is building your mileage up, let alone in a short space of time.
In a week and a half we had done our longest run which was 11 miles - we had a week to go and on this particular run i had Plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the thick tissue on the bottom of the foot) Nice... i could barely walk let alone run... i was so annoyed and angry that we had come so far in such a short amount of time - now this had happened.
I should add in at this point that in a week and a half we had raised over £800... we were dumb struck! our plan was to raise around £200 quid... at least that would have been something but this we were never expecting.
I knew that no matter what i was doing the race, even if i had to walk it.. there was no way that i was giving up.
Race day came - i had rested for 4 days and my sister had contracted one of those 24 hour sickness bugs... nonetheless we ran the race, limping and heaving in 2 hours and 25 minutes raising a total of £1500.
I could not believe that something so simple as running a race under an extreme time constraint would raise that much money in such a short amount of time - it just goes to show that if you want to go and do something DO IT stop waiting for other people to do it for you - get up and make it happen yourself. We set ourselves a challenge and tried our damned hardest to engage people the best way we could and look at what we achieved.
Hells
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