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The Beginning

I am in my second week of training and I cannot remember how it feels to not be in pain! With running three times a week and doing circuits twice a week I am certainly regretting the Christmas indulgence (actually I’m not, it was totally worth it). My first half marathon is only four weeks ago and I am a little bit scared but hopefully once the first one is done, the others wont seem so bad. Fingers crossed! I am doing Parkrun Bedford on Saturday for the first time which will kick off my challenge and bring me 5k closer to my target. Only 195k to go after that!

If you are willing and able then please support me on this challenge and donate whatever you can to Dementia UK using the following link:

https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/HelenFrancis10

There is also more information on there as to why I am doing this challenge and why it is so important to me. If you want to know more about the charity then please follow this link:

https://www.dementiauk.org/

Thanks for reading and see you soon!

I have mainly looked like this for the past two weeks

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