I’m doing the HBF Run for a Reason 14km on the 27 May. I’m raising money for the Fred Hollows Foundation. I have a lot of respect for the Foundation, who are working to end avoidable blindness in 40 countries around the world in addition to improving health and living conditions for Indigenous Australians.
You can visit my fundraising page here. If donating isn’t an option, consider sharing the link. I’ve covered the admin costs myself, so all funds go directly to the Fred Hollows Foundation.
Check out those biceps, said no one ever.
One day I’ll write about running in more detail - it’s something I think about a lot! - but I will just say this quickly:
Lots of people think they can’t run, or say “I’m not made for running; I can only run for sixty seconds before I collapse.” But here’s the thing about running: the first sixty seconds are by far the hardest. Slow down. Run slower than you would if you were walking. Try to make it to two minutes. Try to make it to three minutes. If you collapse that’s okay. You can walk for a bit and start again, or you can walk back home if you don’t think you can do any more. And the next time you try to run, do the same thing, remembering to go very slowly, and once you’ve made it to three minutes see if you can stretch it to five minutes. And once you can run for five minutes, you can run for however long you like. I mean it.
CAROLINE J. DALE
(This is fact not fiction)
