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While the hazards and dangers of smoking are well known, it is not always easy to quit. If you have a loved one that smokes and you have tried many things to persuade them to stop smoking, you may feel as though there is nothing left to try. However, as you love them, you are never going to give up and there should be other ways to focus on helping them to stop. +
12 parkruns of Christmas
It was suggested to us at Newcastle that we all run the final parkrun at Riverside. I thought this was an excellent idea and it would be great to see everyone again. +
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No one is perfect. I’d need another 34 years, 7 flights, 4 trains and several car journeys and I still wouldn’t be close. +
12 parkruns of Christmas
It’s quite ironic that I should be lying in the RVI, the home of Tiny Lives. +
12 parkruns of Christmas
A running friend of mine said “Any publicity is good publicity.” He’s absolutely right. If it wasn’t for me collapsing, we probably wouldn’t have even made it into the papers or raised as much money as we did! +
12 parkruns of Christmas
The day after our ‘attempted’ charity challenge I posted this to my personal Facebook wall: +
12 parkruns of Christmas
By the time we got to Newcastle it was getting dark. I never imagined we would be so far behind. Some people would call it bad planning, I call it a charity challenge and who cares? +
12 parkruns of Christmas
We arrived at South Shields and I heard Adam and Emma “Daddy, Daddy!” I almost fell to my knees but I thought I’d save that for later. I cuddled Adam and didn’t want to let go. This should have been my last run of the day, I just didn’t know how to say enough’s enough. +
12 parkruns of Christmas
Not exactly sure of how late we arrived at Sunderland but I’m guessing maybe an hour to an hour and a half. As I said earlier, we didn’t care but we had to keep people up to date on social media incase they wanted to join us. +
12 parkruns of Christmas
Despite the smiles above, we were really struggling. Lee agrees that these middle few runs were the hardest. We were knackered, hungry and just wanted to crack on and complete the challenge. +