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Most of you will already know because I haven't mentioned it much! but the 'Twenty A Day' girl gave up 3 years ago on 27th March 2006 at 9am (not that I am counting or anything) and apart from the very odd blip ~ last one in May 2008 (yes Milly it was your boat trip!) I am totally clean.  After a couple of months of giving up I decided I would be able to run and set off down our street and was quite shocked to find that I was unable to run the whole street, I must add it is a very long street, well there are 78 houses, but that was still terrible, Steve who was with me at the time and trying very hard to keep a straight face said he would sort out a training plan for me, this was obviously a foreign language to me.  Anyway within two months I could run round the block which for me was wonderful for anyone else not brilliant. 

Well to cut a long story short I kept plodding away and last year we got late entries (the week before!) off two friends who could not do the run due to injury (thanks Reg and Sue) and we ended up in Newcastle doing the Great North Run.  It was just amazing ~ I cried running over the Tyne Bridge because I just could not believe I was actually running on 'My Bridge' and I then cried again (all of you who know me well will know I am not that much of an emotional girl) as I got to the finish line and the Red Arrows flew over (it was as if they had been told I was finishing) actually I didn't cry because they did a fly past, I cried because I had finished a Half Marathon in 2 hours 17 min and I really could not believe it, neither could Steve or Milly, who we met in the pub (now there is a surprise!!)

Anyway enough prattle, those of you who know me well, actually those of you who only know me a little bit, will know how much I can talk.  Well we have managed to get entries for the Great North Run again this year, this time in our own names so I am well excited that Ali Knott is actually going to run in it this year.  We are running for a charity called Get Kids Going which a charity which helps to get disabled children participating in sport.  Sebastian Coe, well Lord Coe, is President and when you read about it it makes you realise just how lucky we all are that we are able to take part in what ever sports we choose and that our children are also all able bodied and if they choose can do whatever they wish.  So we are hoping to raise money to help children that can't.

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