Starting out...

It's official! I will be running the Great North Run for Beating Bowel Cancer in September! My fundraising pack has arrived through the post so this is where the hard work starts. Believe it or not, I'm really looking forward to the training even though I've only been running for a year and I've never run further than 10k. The part which is making me nervous is the fundraising - this will be as much of a challenge for me as running the half marathon! I've set up a Just Giving site (please feel free to visit and donate!) - it's not very pretty yet but I hope to put some more work into it over the days and weeks ahead. I hope that by blogging my "journey" (eugh) as both a runner and a fundraiser will give me an excuse to repost the link to my fundraising page many times over the 6-ish months between now and the run. If I post if often enough, you'll all donate.... won't you???