Running Down Dementia

[ShadowDee]

Sorry it's been awhile since I've been here. I've been rather busy.

I signed up for Running Down Dementia. I initially signed up for the 100k run from April to end of August. But I completed that awhile ago and bumped it up to 300k.

I lost my mum to Dementia and now my mother in law. I'm doing this for everyone. And really comes from the heart. Some days I was just swimming with memories of my late mum. And visiting my mum in law is hard at times.

I've joined a group for Running Down Dementia and one of the runners just lost his dad. The meaning for this run is indescribable.

I just wanted to share this

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Your absence is excused, wow you’ve been busy! Great job tripling your original target.

Dementia has affected my family too, and is a cause close to our hearts. My wife is the manager of a dementia care unit and finds it very rewarding... but of course we would love to be attending less funerals. Hopefully some of the recent scientific breakthroughs will translate to a way of ridding the world of these diseases, or at least control it indefinitely.

Thanks for running for each and every person on the planet.

[ShadowDee Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Thank you UnfitNoMore

Although the run is completed I'm still going to jog. I'm going to aim for 10k. I can get up to 7k some days. I'm getting there lol.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate in reply to ShadowDee]

Well I’m pleased to hear you’re not quitting! You can do 10k... you can achieve anything with patience and hard work.

[Biddy62 Graduate]

Thank you for running down dementia. I lost my dad to this horrible disease 8 years ago and still don’t feel as if I’ve grieved for him properly as the man that was my dad had been stolen away bit by bit before he passed away 😔

I am signed up to run the Royal Parks Half Marathon in October in aid of Alzheimer’s Society so busy training and fundraising. Completed C25K last Christmas and furthest I’ve run so far is 10K. I’m sure we can both do this. It’s such a good cause.

Hope the lovely memories of your mum help you through and thinking of you and you mum in law too. Take care and keep on running.

Ps. What is a Running Down Dementia group?? Sounds interesting.

[ShadowDee Graduate in reply to Biddy62]

Thank you for sharing your story Biddy62

Took some time to heal for me too. Watching and just listening to my mum deteriorate from dementia was torture. I've always looked up to her.

I'll send the link to you. It was an advertisement I seen on Facebook with various targets you can challenge from 100k to 10000 k. Walk and or run from April to end August.

Don't worry not wanting a donation. Just for information if you want. Entirely up to you.

[ButtercupKid Graduate]

I hadn’t heard of this - what a great project ! So sorry for all the hard times you’ve had and are still having. May your good memories prove the strongest x