Nykie's Run

Training for a marathon and she plays squash??? My excuse is it's too windy to run outside and the nasty wind has blown down the shed at the back of the garage so all the stuff that was in there is now in the garage and I can't get to the treadmill.

So squash it was. Not played for years, still beat my boyfriend. Hehe... Booked again for tomorrow. Glutton for punishment? Me? Just wait until April 22nd... *gulp*

www.justgiving.com/nykiesrun

Training for a marathon and she plays squash??? My excuse is it's too windy to run outside and the nasty wind has blown down the shed at the back of the garage so all the stuff that was in there is now in the garage and I can't get to the treadmill.

So squash it was. Not played for years, still beat my boyfriend. Hehe... Booked again for tomorrow. Glutton for punishment? Me? Just wait until April 22nd... *gulp*

www.justgiving.com/nykiesrun

Well, first things first. Last year, I had breast cancer, therefore a double mastectomy and reconstruction (and a second operation to remove the mrsa that the surgeons put in during the first operation), but need no further treatment, thank goodness ) I feel extremely lucky.

Therefore, this year I'm doing (note the word 'doing' rather than 'running'. Hehe...) the Flora London Marathon in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, to give other women the chance of being as lucky as I am.

I've set up an online fundraising page, www.justgiving.com/nykiesrun which is doing really well, but I still need to do more. I'm planning on blasting the £2,000 target apart )

I'm having a speed pool night and a catalogue show (both organised by friends, who've been great).

My training's not going quiiiiiite as well, since I only had my anti-bug operation about three months ago and I'm still in a fair amount of pain. But it's getting there, and I'm playing squash tomorrow as a bit of cross training, so we'll see how that goes ;o)

If anybody's stumbled across this site, the please check out www.justgiving.com/nykiesrun and please donate. Also feel free to tell everyone you know about my trials and tribulations ;o)