Llandudno 5k Easter Saturday!

Hello everyone…

So you may have noticed that ive been a little bit absent for the last few weeks, the reason? Well its been exam time and ive been busy away with that! all finished now though which is great! 

So whilst I have been gone! Me and my mother has completed the Llandudno 5k run in Animal onesies! My mum did it in a duck due to being called ‘Duck’ as her name being a cub leader! And I did it in a Nemo onesie to represent the orange team!

Over all it was a very nice little race! The sun was out meaning that it was very hot and my onsie got stripped on the way round! Bit slower than for me at 35mins but I did stop to talk to mum at around 3.5 k as she was going the other way! reckon if I hadn’t of done that I would have got pb!  Next run though I must remember sun cream as I badly burnt my face during the day!  

My mum did her 5K [or there abouts] in 45mins and 11sec. she did seem to walk a lot more than run, and the running seem to take place when she could see me…  but even so she did an amazing job and a well earned medal alike!  

This event was very well organised! And friendly marshals ect, a great run along the front [not sure what it would be like with bad weather though] and well worth doing it again next year! One things for sure I don’t want to do a run in a onsie in a hurry!

All of this was for all the amazing Child-flight and all donations would be very much appreciated to support us along the way! mum is going to be running further races later on in the year and I still have several races to go on my 14 in 1 challenge!  We are 40% at the target so far and a massive thankyou to those who have already supported me in this.  

our virgin giving page is linked to on the right 

mum's running journey!

hello everyone, bit of a quite week for me this week as seem to have injured top of foot.. better as time has passed so hopefully going to get to a training run tomorrow! so i asked my mum to write this weeks blog post... and this is what she has wrote.... 

We'll six weeks to go 

Have earned my first medal for a 2 k walk

I've now stopped counting lampposts and up to timing three minutes with a two min walk between

Looking forward to doing my first 5k after 30 years

Will see you in Llandudno in my duck onsie

short bu sweet... was meant to be about how shes found joining the jogging pals, a local couch to 5 k training programme to introduce people to jogging and how she feels she has progressed.. also to explain why she has decided to take up running.. maybe shell do another post sometimes?? 

anyway, she has decided to share my fundraising page over on the virgin site, to help me raise vital funds for the amazing charity that is child-flight! she has set a target at £200 pounds [please leave in the comments its for ali/duck] and please help her as it will mean masses if she reaches it! [i'll chuck a £10 in to start off]  

8 days till my next 10k! things cross my toe fixes its-self! 

Childflight

Hello everyone, I’ve had a slight poorly little week over here but now I’m back and off training again.

As most of you may know, [and if you don’t I’m about to tell you, ] I’m a children’s nurse who works on a local intensive care unit, i.e. I look after some very sick children and try and help make them better again.  However there are sad and hard times but I also get to see some amazing things and the most powerful thing in the world, a child smile again! And this is why I got involved with the chosen charity. 

Child fight provides once in a life time holiday’s for children with life limiting or life threatening conditions. [In other words these children are all poorly or disabled in some way.] Every other year they run a structured trip to Florida, visiting all the major theme parks and providing a little magic to these children’s lives, what make them special is that they also take the whole close family.  Making a perfect family holiday making amazing memories for everyone. Something which may not be possible for them to achieve without the support of this charity. Whilst there, the holiday is organised for them from the minute we arrive at the airport to the second we get back to the uk, no one has to worry about anything and there is medical support by the doctors and nurses who all volunteer and are constantly on call.   And the most important bit of the holiday? Well to see the children smile knowing everything they’ve been though, after all nothing matters in Florida!

Childflight also provides Santa flights every year for children to experience there first time flight and meet Santa as well as proving medical flights for children where treatment cannot be found in the uk.

So why run? Well I started doing a sponsored run in 2013 to raise funds and the running bug kicked in big style. So thought I would keep it up and get fit at the same time. So far since May 2013 when I started it’s been hard work but slowly managing to pick up pace etc. Looking at ways that are a bit novel to go with my running but we will see. 

So far I have raised around £600 pounds for child flight from august to Dec in 2013, and I am already at 10% of my target for this challenge. Every penny means the world to both me and this charity but especially the children so if you can, please donate or support in any way you can. 

Thankyou

helen xx

p.s... just something to make you smile as well!