Training for Virgin London Marathon 2019, from 10K

This week has been dedicated to my fundraising, which consists of baking cupcakes and making up Christmas themed sweet cones, with Christmas shopping, prepping and wrapping thrown in to the mix, busy-busy. As anyone who has fundraised before knows, it is hard work, more so when you are making what you are selling, but the support from my family and friends has been amazing, thank you for being you!!! Hopefully it will continue, as they will probably hate me by the time the marathon comes around with all the begging and guilt tripping that will be going on, not to mention boring them with running and training woes 😂 https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/SallyCongram

I have seriously struggled, since being injured, with my mojo, my get up and go got up and went. Dragging myself out for a run when the weather is so bad, things are tough at home mentally and my drive has deserted me. It's strange, I know I am so lucky to have a place in VLM 2019, and owe it to all those that do not, to commit 100% but things have just been too much the past month. What to do, well, as my good friend Sue says, "Just get out there and put one foot in front of the other, a lot'' 😂 Makes me laugh every time I think about it, but it is true. Monday night I joined my running club for a 5mile Team Run, I felt good, I also felt slow, but that's hardly surprising, given my lack of training. Wednesday I joined my fellow team mates again for a 4 mile run, I struggled a bit, but the weather was freezing so assume thats why. Today, I did 7.3 miles, the sun was shining and it was nothing short of perfect running weather, I was reluctant t...