How true!

[Chrissy_b123]

He hee

[poppypug Graduate]

Ha ha Yes ! Yes ! xxx

[ViaM Graduate]

This actually applies to each of my runs, not just to races (haven't done any yet...)!

[misswobble Graduate in reply to ViaM]

I have asked myself that quite a bit. "who do you think you're kidding?" I asked myself once during a race when it was tough. I was having such a good time though and saw loads of other women my age, and older, and thought to hell with it and went for it. We are never too old to have fun. I think sometimes it's just convention that holds us back. Middle aged woman running for the first time. Why? Why not!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[poppypug Graduate in reply to misswobble]

Yes I agree Miss W !

Must admit , for my first race , I felt a complete fraud and thought " what I am doing here with these " proper" runners then I realised I am a "proper " runner and I have as much right to be there as the next person !

Plus the 2 x 10ks Ive done have been a right laugh

On the route when I was doing the Leeds 10k , there was a bloke stood at the side of the road with a sign saying " Short-cut this way, £5 " xxx

[Curlygurly2 Graduate]

Yes, I've never quite figured out this running thing, can't wait to stop, can't wait to go again...

[Madge50 Graduate]

Ha ha, yes indeed, plus I now have the fear that if I stop I will expand like a puffer fish, so that's it, no stopping now!

Mx