Messing About

Last week in total I ran 26.2 miles.

It wasn’t planned, it just turned out that way.

Serendipity.

It’s a sobering thought though.

I was knackered by the end of the week… and that’s the distance I need to do on race day.

Bugger.

Still, that’s what the training is for I suppose.

I snuck a couple of days off work last week and as the sun was out, on Friday I headed out along the canal feeling like I was properly on holiday. As I was trotting down the towpath, I started thinking about fundraising.

I did a big fundraising thing, gosh, about 23 years ago (blimy!). I did a sponsored bike ride across Cuba and had to raise a bucket load of money for that, and training aside, the fundraising was hands down the hardest part. It took over everything.

So here I am again, with another fundraising challenge and as I let my mind ponder on this it occurred to me that with Halloween coming up, maybe I could shake down a few pockets with a money raising challenge that involved some kind of running in fancy dress.

Who doesn’t love a bit of fancy dress?

So for the rest of my run, I started messing about. Filming bits here and there to make it look a bit interesting, including the worlds most lackluster jump that’s ever been recorded… and to announce my newly hatched plan.

You can see the final cut here:

Well, it worked!

A whole bunch of brilliant people - some I haven’t seen since I was at college (and that was even longer ago than the Cuba thing), stepped forward and chucked money in my pot and now here I am, planning my ghostbusters costume for a 5k run around Kidderminster on Friday.

I’ll be making another video so if for some weird reason you don’t fancy hanging about in the rain, in Kidderminster at about half 5 on a Friday (what do you mean you have better things to do???) then you won’t miss out.

If you feel like encouraging this tired ghostbuster, you can bung me a tenner here.

I’m still in the market for selling my business miles too - so if you’re a business owner, want to do something INCREDIBLE today and sponsor me for a mile of your choice, you’ll get a shout out from me, at your mile, on race day. That’s right - I’ll be taking you with me to the London Marathon itself.

It’s a £100 minimum sponsorship for this, but drop me a note if you’re interested… miles are starting to go so le me know which mile you want!

lucy@humaneverything.co.uk

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Over and out.