I have a busy day tomorrow.
Firstly, I am going to be a marshall at the Milton Keynes Marathon. This will be my first experience of marshalling.
I get a t-shirt and a hi-vis jacket, plus a baguette a bottle of water, and a recyclable bag!
A (t)wit (you know who you are xxx) asked if as a marshall I get a gun! I would quite like to have had a gun. It would certainly motivate some of the slower runners to up their game, but no, no guns are being issued tomorrow.
I have to report at 08.00 to be allocated my position. All know at the moment it that it will be somewhere between miles 1 and 9. I’d really like to have been somewhere in the last few miles where runners need lots of support and encouragement, but as tomorrow is predicted to be the warmest day of the year so far, I think they’ll need cheers and claps all the way round.
The race starts at 10.00 and I’m really looking forward to being on the other side of the fence and helping rather than running.
The other thing I’m doing tomorrow is starting a 12 week fat busting course!!!
Before everyone starts, I know that I’m not the fattest person in the world, but I’m doing this so I don’t BECOME the fattest person in the world!
Underneath the clothes there is a layer of flab that is not pretty and I want it gone. I’m dress size 12, and I want to be 10.
I haven’t been able to run much since Christmas when I mucked my Achilles tendon up in a shopping-related incident, and the tone that I had has disappeared under what I think of as a layer of Pork Belly! My jeans are all uncomfortably tight, and Summer is nearly upon us.
OK I’m 52, but frankly I’m just not prepared to give in and go middle-aged. I still want to have the choice of buying my clothes in Top-Shop and Jane Norman, as well as John Lewis and House of Fraser.
I WILL still wear bikinis and not one-piece swimsuits.
If this means a bit of hard work, then so what? I trained for and ran a MARATHON! I can do ANYTHING!!!
(Am I convincing you yet? Am I convincing myself…..?)
Yesterday I had to have a set of “before” pictures taken, wearing a bikini. It is a shocking sight. You can see the outline of where my body ought to be, but shrouded in a coat of lard. As the coat does not have buttons or a zip, the only way of taking it off is going to be melting it with hard work and exercise.
I’m not doing it on my own. I have signed up with Julia Buckley for her 12-week fitness programme.
So far it looks great. We have our own secret Facebook page that no-one else is allowed on, where all the people who have done the course before are being very helpful and encouraging. Julia has set us all up with private Dropbox folders where she has put the instructions for everything that we have to do, and where we have to upload our ‘before pictures’. I’m v. enthusiastic about all the Facebooking and Admin. One small problem will be the actual exercising…….
NO IT WILL NOT …. BE POSITIVE KIM!
High-Fiving Palm Trees 
You’re going to great Kim, welcome to the programme! xx