Result

The sun shone, my nose stopped running and apart from two unexpected, huge blisters that kicked in at the 7km mark, the whole experience was pretty good.

Made it round the Hampton Court 10K in aid of Cancer Research in a fairly respectable time of 56.10. No records broken - in fact it could be my slowest "official" run ever, but given I was about to pull out on Tuesday, I'm well chuffed. J came to cheerlead, which in actual fact translated as keeping me company before and after, and sun-bathing whilst I was running, but who can blame her?

I'm now signed up for the Reading half marathon in March next year and am waiting for confirmation I haven't got through the ballot for the London marathon - in which case I may enter Edinburgh instead. But for now, I'm enjoying just getting home from work and sitting on my bony arse. It's like at school after I finished my GCSEs - I felt I should be doing something productive, but had that warm, fuzzy feeling that it was done and dusted and I was justified in doing absolutely nothing. Magic.

Thanks to Jude, my sister and my mum for sponsoring me! It's cos of you I bothered turning up at all....