And so it begins...

Having been involved with the use of computers for a pretty long time now, I'm familiar with the fact that blogs are a fairly popular feature for internet users but for the most part, I've never thought I've had anything worth blogging about. In the last couple of days, I have now come to believe that this has changed! The reason being the fact that I have signed myself up to do the "Race For Life" in aid of Cancer Research UK. For more information about this event/organisation, click here.

I signed up officially on Tuesday to do the Race For Life and although I have been involved with them before, I have only ever walked the 5k distance. In the last year or so I've come to think of myself as a runner and as such have decided that a good challenge for myself for 2013 would be to run the target distance for the event instead of walking like I usually do. Other reasons for getting involved with the event can be found on my Race For Life Donate Page.

One of my best friends and flatmate is raising money for Childreach to trek Machu Picchu in August and in order to raise the money necessary to go, she is using her spinning and knitting skills to make fantastic hand-made items for people to buy. I might as well plug her cause here too so here's the link to her donate page which has all the helpful and appropriate links to make a purchase, enquiry or donation.

Due to this, it feels a bit cheeky for me to be asking people to donate their money when they aren't really getting anything out of it. It's all very well for me to say "Excuse me, I'm running 5k for charity, can I have some money please?" so I get that it seems a bit meh. This is the reason for rambling on in my first blog post. In order for you - the donators - to be confident in your donation, I'm writing this blog so that you can see my fitness progress, my "Race for Fitness" so that you can see that I am definitely going through with the run. It's also helpful for me to see my progress as I go along too.

I have just over 19 weeks until the Aberdeen Race For Life event which I think is more than enough time for me to train to comfortably run 5k.

Wish me luck!