Charity

We are up early today as we've got to be about 100 miles away for 10.30 am where we (and some of my other friends) are planning a surprise attack on one of our other friends, who is running in a "Race For Life" 5km charity run.

We head off in Phil's car since the sun is out and after a bit of commotion and confusion about where we need to go (conventional maps are not as handy as satellite navigation by a long shot) we arrive in time to all meet up and find our running buddy and give her the shock of her life :)

After the warm up we all do the dutiful encouragement and motivation pep talks and shortly after that she's on her way leaving us to have a good catch up until she arrives back only 40 odd minutes later - well done to her, I'd have still been going around on Monday if it had been me!

We then head back to my friends house to relax and get some food, but only after getting stuck in the flood of traffic heading out from the event - with some 2000 runners in the race you can imagine the queues to leave the event were quite large and were certainly not aided by the fact that the person in front of me was letting every mother and their uncle out in front of him. Ah well, I'll not be bitter, it was for charity, and a good one at that.

So after feeding, watering, chatting and generally catching up with each other some more, it's time to head home and an hour and 45 minutes later we get back home in one piece.

There isn't much left of the evening however, so what is left is taken up with some TV for Phil and more Sim City for me... I think I may need to go on a detox program or something :)

Posted by Abi on the June 12, 2005 9:52 PM

sjon at June 14, 2005 9:41 AM