London Marathon - Gold Bond Place confirmed

I received this on the 12th October 2017......

Congratulations!

"You have secured a London Marathon Gold Bond place – and will be representing St David’s Hospice Care in April 2018.

Excited??

Be prepared – it will take over your life for the next 6 months. You will be eating, sleeping, breathing marathon training."

As you can imagine, I was a little shocked as knew the chances of getting one of the highly coveted placed was slight. In preparation for the disappointment, part of me was already thinking "well,I will try again next year and the other part of me thought "well, at least you won't have to think about all that training in the dark...."

Nearly a month on and the reality of now facing the challenge of running 26.2 miles has started to really hit home, along with the additional task of raising the pledged funding of £2000.

I recently received my confirmation letter from St David's, along with some donation boxes and ideas for raising money which I really need to start thinking about as I have only 157 days to go.  😲

I have also set up my Virgin Money Fundraising page where all early donations would be most welcome!   Sarah Jeremiah - London Marathon fundraising page

So this first post is really about setting the scene and reminding myself that I really have quite a bit to sort out before the 22nd April 2018.

The good news is that that I have the support of a wonderful family and also have a brilliant friends network to help me achieve my aims - physically, mentally and financially!  

In addition, I know I can rely on my fellow club runners from the best running club in the world Parc Bryn Bach to bolster my confidence and affirm my belief that I can do this.

Will be posting up lots of running related images soon to confirm and demonstrate my commitment to this wonderful charity.

Thanks all 

Sarah x