It's a lovely sunny day outside - how are you enjoying the sunshine? Will you go out for a bike ride this weekend or a jog tomorrow morning? Or perhaps you are doing the Loughborough Half on Sunday with Team 168? Either way, be sure to get outside and soak up some Vitamin D whilst you can!
The long-awaited return of the Loughborough Half is finally here and onesixeight: fitness, the official training provider for the 13.1 mile race, will be there to warm up participants, motivating runners all the way to the finish line and celebrating with them afterwards. I am so excited for race day and can't wait to see everyone's hard training efforts (including my own) come together for a great race. Over 600 runners will start and finish in the Loughborough Market Place - and all runners will count towards my Fitness 10,000 challenge. My warm up starts at 8.30am and the race starts at 9am. If you are local and not taking part, please come and cheer us on instead. You can view the route here. Remember the clocks go forward tomorrow (Saturday) night so don't be late!
This week has been another busy week. 2 days were spent bouncing with children at Robert Bakewell Primary School in Loughborough and Oxley Primary School in Shepshed. I really enjoyed the 'Bounce-athons' and loved working with over 500 children over the two days. I have another Bounce-athon booked for next week at Sutton Bonington Primary School and others in the pipeline. All the children I bounce with at these events will count towards my Fitness 10,000 Challenge.
Yesterday, I totalled up my Fitness 10,000 progress so far and I'm up to 6,340 people! Only 3,660 to go (in 4 months). The pressure is on, but I WILL achieve this goal.
Finally, earlier today, I featured on BBC Radio Leicester with presenter Sally Pepper talking about Marathon training. This is the 3rd time I have been invited to speak on Radio Leicester (twice today in fact!) and I do enjoy it. You can listen to my advice here (approx 75 minutes in). I have challenged Sally to train with me and Team 168 for the Loughborough Race For Life on June 24th so you can look forward to hearing more of me on Radio Leicester giving helpful training advice for novice runners.
That's about it from me this week. Remember to cheer us on in Loughborough on Sunday or via Twitter. Look out for next week's Loughborough Echo for full race results and of course come back and read my blog next weekend to see how we all got on.
Enjoy the sunshine :-)
Bouncing Becky
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