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

BIWI do you want me to tell you what ds1 does when he has a runny nose and he is running?

No, thought not

Bleurgh.

I'm pretty sure that shaving my legs will have improved my aerodynamics, as I said they were scarily hairy

I'm really hoping that waxing comment is addressed to tantrums.

Anyway, I am suddenly extraordinarily busy.

I don't do wax. Sorry but it hurts.

I may scrape a razor over my shins if I have to

I'm training! pub to pub! I gathering sponsors too!

Dont worry i dont want anyone to wax my legs which are now smooth as a babies bum, i only have to do up yo just above my knees as my thighs dont seem to grow hair my shins however seem to make up for the lack of growth on my thighs

And dp has noticed my smooth legs and thinks his luck is in, its not as i havent yet forgivrn him for not getting me a bday present.

In winter I only ever run with two layers, a top and a (large) sweat shirt. It means you are a bit cold as you set out, but you soon warm up.

I personally hate running in gloves and a hat (but I have very thick hair), although dh does if it's very cold. The reason I like a large sweat shirt is that when it's cold, you can pull down the sleeves to just about cover your hands.

Then, if you really warm up, you can take the sweat shirt off and tie it round your waist.

For races in summer, especially if it's raining, you don't bother wearing a sweatshirt to the start of the race: you wear the wonderfully flattering attire of a black bin bag that you can pull off and discard

No - waxing doesn't hurt! You get used to it. Honestly!

But it does hurt.

I don't want to get used to it

Oh go on. I love it!

Atm I wear 3/4 length running leggings, long-sleeved base layer, short-sleeved running top, hoodie, running gloves, woolly hat. If it's sunny I ditch the base layer. The hat is a must as the freezing Norfolk wind blasts right through my estate and I loathe having cold ears.

In autumn when I started, I was doing a there-and-back route so if I got too hot would dump my hoodie in a bush and collect it on the way back! Otherwise I tie round the waist.

I take it you don't mean naice black leather gloves

Mmm sweaty leather

I'm.wearing a dress tights and hich heels¡ I'm managing fone\

I always find the time to wax/epilate is as soon after a run as you can manage as the endorphines racing around your body mean it doesn't hurt as much. I took the epilator to my nether regions after this mornings run without so much as a wince.

I get very hot when I run so I tend to wear the minimum. This morning there was a really bitter wind so I covered up and had long tracksuit bottoms, a long sleeved running top and my club vest - and a sports bra of course. I got so warm I had to roll my sleeves up and unzip the neck though. When it gets below zero, I've been known to wear gloves.

Didn't manage a run this morning due to power cut, so wouldn't have been able to shower afterwards. The World is conspiring against me!

I get really hot running too Blathers, even if it's cold enough to wear gloves I always end up taking them off after about 10 minutes.

OK, so we all wax/epilate our nethers then after the run in October?

Am hoping the radio silence from BIWI means she has gone for a trot.

Morning Fizzy

I didn't wake up until 10!

Am finishing my coffee and then off to trot.

My only concern is that this cold means my nose is dripping, pretty much literally. Not sure how I'm going to be able to run carrying a box of tissues. I might have to fashion something round my neck to carry a loo roll.

buff over eyes and nose - stops cold air burning lungs and catches nose drippings.

I am taking the kids swimming - I think I'd rather go for a run quite frankly.

arf at buff over eyes

I actually do have a buff though I like to call it snood because my lungs go flat if the air is too cold.

BIWI is running as we speak

Well I did it, and it was easy, thank the lord. That year's worth of personal training hasn't gone to waste!

I found myself thinking that the 90 second walking intervals were too long, which is obviously a good sign.

So out again on Tuesday morning.

I've also managed to sort out the Google Map Pedometer, so can map out some runs. I just ran round the park behind our house this morning, but running round the same place several times is already boring, so I need somewhere more interesting to run.

I forgot that I had some full length leggings, (mainly because they have been too tight for years, but they fit me now), so I wore those, with the fitted vest that goes with them (with sports bra underneath), and a zip-up track suit top over that. Temperature-wise it was perfect, and I didn't need to take anything off. My hands were very cold though - but I think once I'm running for more than a minute, that should sort itself out. Running just for a minute and then walking for 90 seconds does mean that I didn't get that hot.

So - so far, so good!

Yay go biwi

Yaaaayyy! :)

Well done BIWI