Will she really do it? by katieh123

Given I've not blogged for over two and a half months, I've dithered over whether to write this at all, but have decided to as I owe you all a big thank you...

I think i've reached the end of my blogging career, so wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you so much. When I joined Realbuzz just over two years ago I never really thought I'd even be able to run the Great South that year, but with your encouragement I kept up with the training plan and dared to enter the London Marathon. Completing that remains one of my proudest moments, and I owe much of it to you.

Whilst running has taken a (big) back burner recently, I can 100% honestly say i'm a much fitter person from being on here, and am also much more fitness aware, so thank you again.

As well as thanking you for your support, I also want to thank you for your inspirational blogs too - there's a lot of incredible stories on here, and you all deserve to be hugely proud of yourselves too, so a final well done from me!

Wishing all of you all the best in all that lies ahead... in running, other challenges and life in general, but from me, it's over and out...

Been ages again, and surprise surpise, i've done no running yet again. Work's been crazy as the last week has been our brand new national fundraising week which i had done a lot of the organisational work for, so loads of external promoting and then trying to get our office to take part in loads of activities and fundraising too, so I'm very glad it's Friday night! I've spent many an hour this week with a lime green wig and tutu on shaking a bucket across various London stations, have organised a work cake sale, quiz and comedy night, fancy dress day, talent show, inter-team competition and then all my normal work too.... but the good news is that I think just from our own staff we've raised around £2000 which i'm really pleased with. Just have to hope that people all over the country have been doing stuff too!

Then tonight I am obviously planning on winning Euromillions (along with half of Europe i guess!)... and tomorrow there is more excitement....

I'm going to be on a game show being made for Sky One! Sadly i don't think there's actually a huge chance of me winning any money, but do keep your fingers crossed just in case. I will at least get to look at the rather tasty Gethin Jones all day tomorrow, Mon, Tues and Wednesday which can't be a bad thing!

But running... well as i said, there's been none at all, sorry. Right now it's about all i can do to keep my eyes open, but hopefully life will calm down again soon (or i win £110 million and don't have to work anymore and can get myself a personal trainer for every day of the week!). Am mightily impressed with all the running you are all managing and am really sorry for the lack of commenting.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

... including (finally!) the feeling that it'd be nice to go out for a run! Yes, the sun was shining and it wasn't that i felt i should go for a run, but that i'd actually like to.

Naturally after 5 weeks of not running there's the worry of not being able to do it anymore, but no matter what pretend complaints my body threw at me (hurty shins, stitch, sore shoulder, rubbed ankle), I managed to plod on til the Garmin bleeped it's 3 mile bleep and then walked home. Average pace 10.46 which i'm really pleased with after such a break. And despite all the pretend pains, I did enjoy being out there.

Whilst i've been a rubbish runner and blogger for the last, well, ages, I've really felt that i didn't want to feel that I 'should' get out and run, but instead i wanted to 'want' to get out and run... who knows how long it'll last, but hopefully a while!

Running aside, the walking is going well and I'm looking forward to a 22 mile stroll across the South Downs with Amy, Pam and Chris this Saturday before cheering on all you fabulous marathon runners on Sunday - think we'll be at mile 8.5 near the Asthma UK cheering point, so if any of you are running, please do look out for my mum, P &C and I!

Also with good old WW, I'm just two pounds off having lost 2 stone since New Year, so that's positive too - although I have come to realise that I seem to struggle focussing on weight loss and exercise at the same time... ah well, can't be perfect!

Big well done to all of you who have been doing so much better than me with the running, and massive good luck wishes to everyone running the marathon on Sunday, enjoy it all, with all the training you've done, you deserve to relish every moment - even the ones that may hurt!

So it's been 4 weeks - where did they go?! I'm not proud to announce that in that time i've run a total of twice.... hmm, that's really really rubbish isn't it?! And the last of them was three weeks ago tomorrow, so I really must get back to it sometime very soon, or my legs will have forgotten what to do!

Running aside, all is good in the life of me. I've been doing some walking and a few pilates sessions, so not all gone to pot. The osteopath has signed me off as being healthy again, and the back is mostly behaving itself now.

I did a very hilly 16 mile walk across the Kent countryside yesterday which went really well,and I even decided to carry a rucksack with me for the first time which was a real test for the back, and thankfully i had no probs with it. According to the Garmin, across the whole walk we did ascents totalling 2126m and descents totalling 1974m, so it really was pretty hilly.... sadly, due to vaguely trying to impress the company i was in, i couldn't even whinge too much about the 'undulations' so it was a heads down and get on with it sort of a thing! The scary thing is that Trailwalker will be almost 4 times the length of yesterday's walk - I think there'll be blisters on the blisters by the end of it!

Other excitement is that I randomly filled out an online application form for a new tv gameshow ages ago, and found out on Saturday that I'm going to be on it! It's called Sell Me The Answer and is going to be on Sky One, presented by the rather lovely Gethin Jones. I'm going to be on 12 shows from what i can work out, and they're being filmed on 9/11/12/13 May, so fingers crossed for me to try and win some money (although it seems I may have to lie and cheat to do so, so I'll have to practise my lying, cheating face over the next month!!).

In my 4 weeks of laziness, thankfully you have all been keeping the home fires burning with some great running, training and racing, a huge well done to all of you!