Well, it’s over. I did the British 10k this morning. It took me an hour and 13 minutes, which included a stop just past the 9km mark to help a woman who was having a fit. I made it to the 8km mark in an hour, which isn’t bad going really. I kept that pace up til the end, but I was knackered. It was a hard slog. Hats off to anyone who has run an event like that before. To get to the end, I thought of all the women who have been through so much more than I have and of all the sponsorship money that my friends donated.
The Mechanic and I have scoffed a pizza and now it’s time to lounge in bed and watch telly while my legs buzz and my feet ache.
I feel drained. I was elated until I checked my blog to post about this and found Cara’s rude comment on my post about The Mechanic’s crazy girlfriend. I object to having to hold my tongue with a lunatic stalker and Cara infuriated me. It’s taken the wind right out of my sails which were full after a great event. When I crossed the line I thought of the £2,550 that people have been so generous to give and I shut my eyes, leant my head back and actually let out a whoop.
It’s time to walk away from the nightmare of last year now. I’ll still be involved with Jo’s Trust and if anyone ever needs to talk about cervical cancer or needs any advice, my door is always open, but now that the run is done, I want to take a back seat.
Thanks everyone.
Well done Soupy, I am very proud of you and the effort you made to both raise the money and then do the run. Well done!
bloody good going! xxx
Woooo! So very proud of you Soupster
Awesome! You rock.
Well done
Fan fucking tastic x
Good work….and I think all the best athletes finish off with a pizza. You have real potential there for more multi-K runs
well done eh xxxx
you’re a legend, well done! A great idea to sort of leave it all behind you now, still having done so much good stuff in aid of it all
well done well done X
Congrats for finishing it - can understand why the back seat is looking good, enjoy it.
Bloody well done
Magic the Soupster !
You did a very good thing. Congrats
Woohoo! Congrats!
Congrats on the 10k!!
And wait - are you and the Mechanic back together? Or did I totally miss something?
HURRAH for you girl! I’m so proud of you! xxxx
Hey guys and girls, thanks so much for your comments and all the support you gave since all the fundraising stuff began. Having such a lovely bunch of people come into my life through this blog has been so heartening. Thank you!
LPeg - the story of The Mechanic shall follow in a new post…
I just want to heap my congratulations on the steadily growing mountain.
Compared to your email to Lauren and subsequent reply to my comment, I would not describe anything I have written here as ‘rude’, but ‘mild’.
You did a run for charity. Well done. I’ve done similar. It makes neither of us a saint, so I’ll appreciate it if you did not try to make out like my comment ruined your runners high.
You can “appreciate it” all you like Cara (get your hoity toity tone) but tough shit, it did. Yeah, so it was a run for charity, don’t you fucking dare try to take away how much it meant to me after the past 8 months. Let’s hope that nothing similar happens to you, eh.
Your other comments have been deleted. It is made clear to you that you’re not welcome here but you choose to ignore it. I don’t like the way you have insulted my blog friends in the past, I don’t like your stomping around on my blog.