Flapjack Friday

With a loving nod to Dorothy Snarker for her Tank Top Tuesday genius, and a warm smile to Saturday Night Live for their Weekend Update Thursday, I bring you Flapjack Friday. (Look out for Training Update Tuesday from next week)

So, Flapjack Friday? The food I'm consuming in training and the fluids that are washing it down. With a desire to be as organic and natural as possible, we'll be experimenting with Lucozade equivalent homebrews, sustaining flapjack homebakes and oh, so much more! (who writes this?) Calorie intake needs to be going up up up. Watch this space. 

Anyway, Today sees Our Daily Bread - the first loaf out of the borrowed bread maker (thanks Rach, thanks Phil).

 

Mark 1 Organic Wholemeal,... that very encouragingly, does look and indeed taste like bread. Beginners luck, or maybe the breadmaker is foolproof? Bring on the jam ;o)

Anyone got breadmaking experience to share? Any tips, advice, recipes?

Dress like Lara

Apparently (so I'm told by a yet-to-sponsor-me) if I run dressed as Lara (yes, that's Ms Croft to you), I'll raise a lot of money. 

Reckon I need to see the "lot of money" first. Then I'll maybe sort the costume.

You can use the JustGiving donating-doodah (top left of the page) to make your donation.

So excited

Today finds me sooo excited. Am about to go global with Run Sarah Run: launching this blog and the associated Just Giving page. Letting Run Sarah Run loose on the world. Ahhh, the internet is such a wonderful thing. But ooh, the pressure. The responsibility. I'm guessing that in the ideal world, blogs are interesting, amusing, entertaining. And, as many of you know, I have never claimed to be any of the above... 

So what's the excitement?

Am excited to be bringing together a few of my passions, including:

1) running: not just the 26.2 miles on the day, but hundreds of the blessed things in training along the way

2) writing: blogging, begging emails, letters to businesses, thank you notes...

3) helping other people spend their money: £1500 to be exact. In the form of your generous, generous donations to Kith & Kids: empowering families living with disability to overcome their social isolation and access the services they need.

Am excited to be getting positive feedback and creative, constructive ideas from you guys that I've spoken to already, on ways to raise the money, and things to write about in the blog.

And now I'm losing the excitement and slipping more into anxious - I need to post this and get on my bike. It seems time doesn't stand still, and work doesn't wait, while I blog...

Kith & Kids, not Kath & Kim

Just wanted to clarify that I'm raising money for Kith & Kids

- a charity doing wonderful work with children & young people with learning & physical disabilities,

and not for Kath & Kim

- two crazy Australians off the telly.

Life can be so confusing.

Six months and counting...

Woo-hoo! On 15th October 2008 I made the decision to run the Flora London Marathon 2009. Was that a good / bad / crazy / misguided / inspired decision? Time will tell. I've a feeling it will prove to be all of the above at times.

Kith and Kids are my chosen charity and I'll be raising money for them from here on in. Aiming for £1500. I'm thinking that could be one single very grand donation, or perhaps 150 people giving a tenner each, or maybe a random number of generous donations adding up to a splendid £1500. I don't mind at all how it happens, just so long as it does. Kith and Kids have given me a lovely blue t-shirt to wear training, and I want to wear it with pride knowing the money is rolling in for the great work they are doing.

So, since 15 October mostly I've been going OMG!!! WHAT HAVE I COMMITTED MYSELF TO???

And then yesterday, which was the 6 MONTHS TO GO point, I felt an immense sense of calm. This will be fine. I mean, how hard can it be?! I've got some running experience. I've got some fundraising experience. And most importantly, I've got some fabulous, fabulous friends and colleagues and a scrummy family who, I'm sure, will support me hugely, albeit from the comfort of a non-shorts and trainers based place.

Sooo, please come here often and read about my progress/mishaps/adventures/pain. And please, please, please support me. Whether that's with donations to Kith and Kids, words of encouragement, or gifts of lucozade and flapjacks. I'll take whatever you're giving ;o)

Now, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got a little run to do. Heading out for 6K along the Portway, if anyone wants to join me...