Woolly Hugs does Running..... Running?? Yep, RUNNING!!

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Woolly Hugs Guide to Running

1. Put down your woolly wool,crochet hooks and needles.
2. Find your trainers, these are sort of soft bouncy shoe-things that go on your feet.
3. Find something loose and comfortable to wear, and no we don't mean a caftan.
4. Open front door and go outside
5. Put one foot in front of the other with speed and determination!

YOU are RUNNING!!

If you haven't seen Phase 2 of our Little Hugs, the thread is HERE. We launched this phase as a tribute to beautiful Billie, our lovely MrsDeVere's daughter, who devastatingly died at 14 from leukaemia. We launched this at the time of her 21st birthday and we call the project Billie's Blankets in her memory. In her name, and through World Child Cancer, we will send little blankets to children, starting with Malawi and Bangladesh, who really need a Woolly Hug and to feel loved and looked after.

Alongside Billie's Blankets, we are very keen to send a donation to World Child Cancer, as money is scarce, they really have so little. One of the ways we will do this is by running! In May a Woolly Hugs' team will be running the BUPA London 10k, and we are now looking for runners to enter 5K runs throughout the country.

These are where the 5K runs will take place?.. They are all over!

There are already runners committed to running (BIWI, TantrumsandBalloons,me) in London at Crystal Palace on October 13th, and lovely Fizzy and PrettyBird are running in the Glasgow event on July 27th. We would love folk to join with us, or run at a different venue! There is no minimum age and children can be entered, my daughter is running with me, I say with, she will shoot off like a gazelle and I will lumber along. Happily the website says they love fancy dress

Because World Child Cancer isn't a nominated charity we/they ask that you let them know independently. To take pressure off individuals, and to make this a real woolly community effort we recommend that you use our Woolly Hugs Just Giving page for fundraising. Anything you raise will be marvellous, really, and we will all be able to see how much we can raise together.

Our Just Giving Page is HERE Donations are welcome at any time, huge thanks for those already in.

So please have a think, if you are interested, we would recommend entering soon to avoid disappointment. Let us know when you have entered so we can cheer you on, and please use this thread for support, and general running things Couch to 5K apps and playlists for running spring to mind.

The children that WCC support need all the love and comfort possible. So please, in memory of a sparkling young girl who always thought of others, we'd love you to help us help them.

As ever, thank you so much for your support

Thinking of Billie and her family Xx

Knotty and Pistey

Collapses into thread... 3.1 miles in under 40mins. That is almost 5k? And i was running against the wind. I am quite pleased with that :)

Well done pretty i am not aged and still need to stretch afterwards or my calves feel like they may snap!

Have skipped my run today as am ill and coughing and spewed all over the kitchen earlier. Fun times.

Pretty thank you for the recommendation. That looks exactly what I'm after .

5mad - 3.1 miles is 5K! Well done!

Hope you are better soon easily xxx sending sisterly love xx

shredded i thought 3.2 miles was 5k? Its almost there and i feel very pleased with myself :) tho my takeaway may be undoing all the good of the run...

10k is 6.25m so 5k is 3.125m.

So you are pretty much there!

Well i need to get to 10k by the 27th of may and its certainly seeming more doable. I didnt run the whole way hence it taking 37mins. I woukd run till i coukdnt then walk a min and get my breatg back and then run again. The wind is a killer tho you really notice the difference when running into it!

Ooh, the 27th May is my birthday. You can celebrate reaching 10k while I quietly cry in a corner about being old - then we'll both get drunk

The 27th of may us my sisters bday as well, so a good day to have a day and I promise I won't forget this year easily

And yes I will get drunk after the 10k, I think the plan is to go to the pub at the end

Oh I've only just seen this. Who is running Manchester?

I think easily (my sister) is running the Manchester 10k in 26th may? Or that is her plan but its not public knowledge so shnhh.

I was thinking more the 5k and when I say running, I meant more of a leisurely meander!

Has anyone heard from Shredded since she said she went out?

I am indeed running the 10K on the 26th. If I'm ever not ill, and the baby is ever not ill.

Once dp gets back from school run I shall go and do week two run one...

I'm here Pretty! I did just over 4 miles in the mud . I'm glad I went yesterday, as we've got lots of snow today.

Week two run one done :) not sure i like running in the day so much, have bern running late afternoon and early evening and i prefer that but dp.has crazy shifts and we have parents evenings and football matches etc this wk so.its a case of fitting it in when i can.

I was going to say - have seen Shredded's mapymyrun I think

Flo - I can ask on Facebook if you want to see if there is someone to run Manchester with?

I'll buy all Woolly Hugger runners a drink in the pub after the 10K Least we can do!

Completely failed to get out today, have been up to my ears in preschool committee stuff (still at it now in fact!). Tomorrow hopefully!

Week 2, day 1 completed yesterday. Just about, it was slightly harder than expected but i did it

Off to the gym tonight.

Can't run today

Hurt my right hip on Sunday and had an osteopath appointment yesterday to sort it out. A bit of pelvic misalignment and some very tight muscles - thank goodness nothing more serious.

But I'm very sore after the prodding, poking and massage, and she told me to rest today.

I realised, though, that I was really hoping not to be told I couldn't run at all, so that's a result!

BIWI - I've just had a look at your blog and if it's any consolation, I've never been able to run on treadmills - even when I was doing half marathons at a semi-decent pace. Even though on the road I have a good even pace, on a treadmill I'd be exhausted running at the same pace and always feel like I was about to fall off the back of the treadmill

Ask your trainer for a programme that doesn't include running, as you'll be doing that anyway. Maybe do different aerobic exercises or 10 minutes on the bike?

I've talked to him - he hadn't realised I was doing the running as well. His view is that road running is much better than the treadmill - as the treadmill, to a certain extent, does the work for you. So we've agreed that (unless I feel like it) I can drop that bit of the programme and concentrate on other elements of it.

Can I join???

I've just entered the Balmoral 10K on 27th April (gulp) and have not run properly in years....