Last weekend I took part in my second Great North Run. I decided when I signed up not to run for charity as I thought the pressure to give this year would be more than normal after Covid and I wanted to do it for myself; I had done a lot of running in lockdown so wanted to beat my time from four years ago as I was a lot fitter and was getting better at running.
However last years race was postponed so this year I was not prepared, me and my boyfriend have just refurbished our new house, I’ve had a busy summer plus the fact I haven’t been too well the last six months, so I wasn’t in a position to run a fast time like I thought the year before.
As you all know from reading this blog, my MS treatment had an effect on my thyroid and I have an overactive one which has really has an effect recently.
I’ve lost 1 and a half stone, been constantly tired and had some visible effects from it. It is a side effect I have to live with which is better than waking up with MS symptoms, but it really took it out of me. Some days I couldn’t be bothered to even interact with people, and I would fall asleep as soon as I was lying down, which normally isn’t the case since I’m quite a hyper, sociable person.
It was also making me not want to run as I was scared, I wasn’t going to run far, my motivation was from 100 to zero.
So I was starting to get anxious about the run as I’m quite a competitive person and I knew I wasn’t going to do as well as I thought I would so on Thursday (four days before the event) I decided to set up a Just Giving page to raise money for the MS Trust and I am so glad I did!
I’ve doubled my target already and I really felt like I had a purpose running. Just want to say thank you to everyone has supported me.
I also knocked 2 minutes off my last time, so I did better than I thought. But I am determined to knock more time off so it won’t be my last GNR.
Thank you to everyone who donated and if you want to just go on my Just Giving page x
