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

But I do think it was the Scissor Sisters

So half an hr of yoga done before ds woke up. Just feeing him now. I think I need to put together a playlist for my fast walks runs. I have too much melancholy and flitty floaty classical to leave it up to random shuffle.

What's everyone's favourite running songs?

We need a Team Playlist!

I downloaded some tracks the other night, its all stuff from my youth and a real mush mash, shania twiasn, Maryj blidge, ash, oasis, blur, tom petty, the beach boys, will smith etc just all upbeat and cheerful. Do looked last me like when he saw what I had downloaded!

This is me going down hill

And what the accident investigators drew in my honour last time

Last time I asked on FB for suggestions Knotty came up with Tis on my playlist, it makes me laugh, specially the bonkers bit

Oh I like that track piste BTW did you get my pm yesterday?

Bless you 5mad, just about to Pm you now X

Thank you :)

Just got back from doing 5k, nice and sunny out there though still windy like a bastard.

I change my running playlist every few weeks but at the mo it includes Dinosaur Jr, Afghan Whigs, Massive Attack, Kate Bush (Running Up That Hill, obv), Radiohead and Fleetwood Mac!

I had grand plans to get up early, take boys to school and then do the run on the way home... But it was dp's last morning at home before a 42hr shift... So I let him do it and I will run this eve once smalls are in bed, ds1 will babysit :)

Fleet wood mac! That's what I'm missing! My copy of rumours disappeared between house moves years ago! I'm off to download!

I was just thinking of that adventure this afternoon . I didn't have my ipod, and there weren't any coyotes there weren't any last time except in my over active imagination.

Instead there was lots of squishy squelchy mud and prickly brambles, and I did of course get lost . But it meant I did more than 10k with all the extra looping around.

That was the song Pistey, and I sure didn't feel like dancing.

Fizzy - Rumours is FAB for running, as is Parallel Lines and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack .

When DD and I went running in New York, I just remember playing Mr Blue Sky which was yours as well, and we ran with the hurricane bearing down on us. Good times

Mr blue sky is on my playlist! In fact there isn't very much from this century on it!

Very jealous of your running in NY Pistey, did you go through Central Park? I went running in Vancouver with my sister a few years ago, that was lovely. And once on the California coast.

This thread has spurred me on, I might draft in my parents to babysit one morning while I go out running. If I'm going to work up to 10k by May I need to get a move on!

Oh yes, Mr Blue Sky reminds me of our lovely C25K thread.

Right, I'm going to ignore the gale force winds and hail and tonight I'm putting my trainers on and going out!

Probably.

Yes, in Central Park, and as New York was shutting down with the hurricane looming.

But we loved running there because by God we were quick! There are quite a few NYers who run incredibly slooooooooowly, twas more of a parade than a run. We loved it Then later that day, the hurricane hit and we were evacuated. It was all in the words of the good Dizzee himself, bonkers

So I went out today and now have new trainers, new long leggings, a running t-shirt and a lightweight, waterproof, zip-up top. In fluorescent pink. No-one will miss me now.

But I do think we need to reintroduce the term Post Running Smug Phase. Hereafter PRSP

All runners, from experienced to beginner will understand PRSP, and those just starting out will learn to love it. It is that glorious smug feeling of knowing you have run and do not have to go the next day.

Enjoy PRSP

Tis smashing

Not sure what it's like to run to, but this is my latest love:

One for all the Franglais amongst us! It's an absolute hoot.

Good luck easily I will be running this evening as well. They boys scootered home from school today, they havent done that in a while due to the snow and I had forgotten how fast they go... I had to jog thge half hour walk home, it was OK SK I am feeling oiptimistuc for my first couch to 10k thius evening...