Race for Life – The Event!

Saturday. The Big Day (relatively speaking) Alex woke with my alarm, said “Todays phrase will be: ‘Sucks To Be You’”, and rolled back over to go back to sleep. With those inspiring words, I got ready. I was up pretty early, partly from excitement/nerves, but partly because Zoe and James (and Homily!) were due to [...]

Race for Life – A Mini Update

A quick little update about Race for Life. I did it! Sadly because I was feeling properly gross, I only walked it, but still did it in an hour. I’m procrastinating from writing about the day at the moment, but until then, gere’s a pic of Zoe’s dog Homily who accompanied us! If you’d still [...]

Race for Life – The Personal Trainer Experience

So in just under 2 weeks (June 12th!) I’ll be running my Race for Life. Well, I say run… This has been the extent of my training. Yeah. Great idea. Silly girl. But! The lovely Jayne at Race for Life has sent me a training plan which might help. She’s sent me the walking album, [...]

Giveaway!

I was sent some really cool stuff from the guys at Race for Life recently, and instead of keeping it for myself, I thought I’d have a little giveaway. Normally most people will have blog giveaways that you enter either by following the blog, or by commenting, etc, but I thought I would do something [...]

Why Take Part?

I’ve been asked this question a few times lately when people have heard that I’m doing Race for Life for the third time this year, and I thought it would be a good idea to get it down into words (because my answer is usually “er…to raise money”) As many of you probably know, my [...]

Race for Life – Come Join Me!

So, remember how the pain. Oh god, the PAIN amazing and fulfilling pleasure that running the Race for Life gave me last year? No, me either. (I lie, it was pretty awesome) Well, its that time of year again when I debate about running it again, and this time, I’m wondering if anyone else would [...]

Race for Life – the event!

As you probably have guessed by now, I managed not to die from doing the Race for Life recently. I woke early, to make sure I was on the Downs for 10am, but managed to get there even earlier. Getting up at 8am on a Saturday to go running seems wrong. Before I left the [...]

Race For Life (part 4)

I wrote this message to my Facebook friends last night who I am trying to persuade to sponsor me as well, and thought I would share it with you as well Don’t worry, I’m not drinking wine at half 12! Hello lovely people who have sponsored me, ones who haven’t yet done so, and those [...]

Race For Life (part 3…oops…)

I’m a terrible person. I promised the amazing people that have sponsored me (which you can do by going to raceforlifesponsorme.org/hayley_c (yes, I’m shameless)) that I would blog my endeavors in training, because it was sure to be hilarious, bearing in mind that I am very lazy, and I really hate running. I’ve been describing [...]

Race for Life (part 2)

So my second week of training for the Race for Life has been non existant – I managed to catch Louise’s lurgy last weekend and have been feeling very sorry for myself! Hopefully with the clocks changing today, I will be more likely to go running after work, because it will be lighter longer. My [...]