...and build each other up.
Not a post of my run on Monday, that joy comes later...maybe 
There seems to be a whole load of folk graduating this very week, (some have already), and I just wanted to say to all of them, Well Done or a huge, Good Luck.
I have been spending far too much time, over the last few weeks, reading lots, and lots of posts, and have made a whole bunch of new friends.
Lots of thoughts, have been resonating with me, also, about the whole Couch to 5K programme.
People running with and against all manner of difficulties and obstacles, some of them totally life changing, and the range of amazing strategies , skills and tactics, they adopt to achieve their goal.
It is as we all know, an incredible programme., but the myriad skills we, as runners, have, develop, and enhance simply astounds me.
The self management and organisation of ourselves, and our running, throughout the programme, is amazing; but it is the way in which support is given freely, and constructively to others which is so impressive.
We support, sympathise, empathise, encourage, cajole, persuade, and even give the odd gentle shove when required. All these skills might prove enviable to a psychologist, yet we demonstrate them to, and with each other on a daily basis!
This programme, obviously, as we know, linked with the NHS, should in my view most definitely be offered through GP services, to folk, as a possible therapy/aid/ remedy, for any number of the ills associated with the strains, stresses and unwelcome burden of certain chapters in our lives.
It is wonderful.
I have my daughter and son in law to thank, for persuading me to set out on this journey, and my message to anyone, even just beginning to think about taking the same journey is...do it.
Graduation on a cruise ship 🚢 
