Sunday, 1 June 2014

Southern Tour of 50@50 is a stunning success

This week saw me take on the most challenging of weeks so far in my plan to run with 50 women to help promote women's health.

Twitter has been a great aid in getting to some really inspirational people and this week I had the privilege of running with 5 different people. Starting in Bedford, I met up with Sarah Roche, a psychiatric nurse with a very interesting story. We ran and talked for over an hour while running along the muddy canal towpath.
                                                                         Sarah Roche

Friday saw a double up of ladies with my work colleague Sinead and her training partner Alex. We talked while attempting some speed reps along Eastbourne sea-front. Sinead, a proud Irish woman uses running to counter the stresses at work, while much traveled Alex initially took up running to get in shape.
                                                                     Alex and Sinead

Saturday took for for a first time to Royal Tunbridge Wells, a lovely place in the sunshine and again I doubled up with Rebekkah Rand and Sarah Russell. Both ladies are extremely inspirational with Sarah having overcome some serious health issues in recent years. Both ladies help with Sarah's Runners, a greenshoot running organisation that has won awards in the last few years. Our run took us around Bewl Res, and though a touch muddy, a really stunning day out.
                                                                        Beks and Sarah

Next week takes me to Crete, though the challenge doesn't stop there, I will be looking to pick up a further 4 runs there.



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