All Entries in the "Personal Stories" Category
The Final chapter – It’s Just as Well we Can’t See Into The Future …
But, at the beginning of August, three days before we were due to leave, life bought me back down to earth with a huge bump. A lump had appeared in my left breast, out of the blue, nothing one minute and a lump the next. I made an appointment to see my GP who said I would have to be referred to a specialist and would have to attend a hospital appointment within the next 14 days.
TV Star Phoebe Thomas – “Does This Sound Familiar?”
This is the year that I am going to become a runner. I can’t believe it, yes I was the one who stood on the school sports field refusing to run and pretending my asthma was bad. I hated running and dreaded every PE lesson.
2009 – A Year of Highs and Lows!
My first race booked for 2009 was the Reading Half Marathon on 29th March. I ran regularly to train for the race and the day dawned sunny but cold. This is one of my favourite races and I crossed the line in what I thought was 2:19:02 but then realised that was the gun time.
A Very Personal Story of Courage – Part 5
Onwards!
Losing my friend gave me a renewed energy for life and for running.
After my PB Parkrun at the end of June my next challenge was the New Forest 10 (miles) in July 2008. My son took part in the children’s race there and got his very first medal! This really is a most beautiful race, [...]
A Very Personal Story of Courage Part 4
With a number of 5Ks done I set myself the challenge of a 10K, the SheRunsHeRuns 10K at Bluewater, 12 August, 2007. What a hilly race – I don’t like hills and will avoid them at all costs if I can! Liz Yelling was doing this race and I was so lucky that at about the 500m to go mark
A Very Personal Story of Courage Part 3
January 2007 – love that date – it was when I started running again. I followed Liz Yelling’s 30 Day Walk to Run programme. It was like being a complete beginner again but even the walking days of the programme felt wonderful.
A Very Personal Story of Courage Part 2
I wanted my operation over and done with. The weekend before my operation I watched the Great Manchester Run take place on television, a very close friend was running and seeing her on the TV made me even more determined that the operation was not going to put a halt to my running.
A Very Personal Story of Courage
The story of an everyday woman … if it inspires just one person it will have been worth sharing.
My name is Carol, married, mum of two and heading for my big half century in 2012! I have been running for about 7 years now and a member of R4W for most of that time. I [...]
The Blonde, The Brunette and Their Blisters
Part 7 Cont
It took 20 (long) minutes to shuffle over the start line. As we had given ourselves a predicted finish time of four hours, we had been landed in the most congested pack of people, something that would later prove one of our biggest obstacles.
We started running to the sound of Frank Sinatra singing [...]
One Women’s Journey Part 3
Part 3: Three 5ks, two personal trainers and the 10k of my life
The story of probably the most unlikely person in the world to ever run and how she gets there (hopefully)!
Well, 9 months after my first few running steps I had a 5k race under my belt. For most people that is a long time [...]
