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Small acts of kindness
Like many people at this time of year, I’ve been looking back over the past 12 months… …and I’m not ashamed to say I’ll be glad to see the back of it! Everyone’s life has ups and downs. Even the most together happy people have those periods in their lives when things just don’t go right, it’s normal… …and for me, 2022 was like that. It started off poor, then rallied a bit with a few weeks of huge success with an amazing BA Life conference, successfully running another Edinburgh Half Marathon, and being a finalist for a business award. But then the bottom seemed to fall out of my…
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What a difference a day makes
Particularly if that day is an exceptional one like Sunday 12th September, the day of the Great North Run! Perhaps it’s a little unfair to say this all happened in one day, but it was the culmination of 18 months worth of hard work, by me, my close friends and family, and you… my brilliant and very generous donators. Because on 12th September 2021, after waiting two years since the last one, I finally ran in the 40th Anniversary Great North Run …and in doing so, earned a load of money for the wonderful mental health charity MIND. What a crazy few weeks, filled with training runs, friends visiting, presenting…
