Last run tomorrow. #runtoremember.

It was over 20 years since I last ran any more than 2 miles, and that was only when I was forced to in the name of training! Here I am agreeing to a minimum of 2 miles every day for 4 months! A total of 250 miles in 125 days!

So, you may ask why would I do such a daft thing at the age of 43, and just as the weather has turned wet and windy?

Well, just over a year ago, I watched as experienced police officers sobbed openly in corridors of the police station at the news that 2 of our colleagues had been shot to death. I sat with them in disbelief and hoped that it was all a misunderstanding. We hugged each other in private, and supported each other openly in the days that followed. I have been a part of the police service for long enough for this not to have been the first murder of a police officer, but somehow, this felt different, They were both girls, both so very young, and the way they had been killed, so callous. We united in grief.

Not long after, I attended Nicola's funeral, and was stunned into silence as thousands of members of the public, clapped as we walked down Deansgate, in an extraordinary show of support.

Since that date, numerous friends, colleagues and family members of both Nicola and Fiona, have done extraordinary things in order to raise money and provide a lasting legacy in their name.

Her father is planning on doing the North Pole Marathon in April next year, and has asked for hundreds of police officers to support him in his preparation by completing this "Run to Remember" Nicola.

I simply felt it was important to be a part of that, to support him and to show everyone, that we care, that we will never stop fighting for the "good guys" and that everything Nicola believed in, lives on in those of us left behind.

Hopefully, I will also lose some fat, get fitter, and have fun..... but only with your help.

So here I am in desperate need of your support! Not just your dosh (though that will be a very welcome addition to Nicola's legacy fund) but in motivational, funny and insulting messages and calls, if I even consider not going to do the runs, and I will always be up for some company on these mad days.  

So here comes the 1st December and the first of 125 days of utter hell for me....... but as we all know, I am very lucky to be able to get up every day and do this, so there will be no complaints!

Thank You!

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