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Stickless, I am inspired, hope you get to China.
Have any of you out there run the New York Marathon - I am going to run in it this year and do not know anyone who has done it.
I would also like to know if any of the guys run because their girlfriend got a girlfriend.
when i lived with a friend of mine in watford (also a runner) the waitresses in the local chinese knew us by name.
Sorry for the slow response but the day job got in the way. Have to earn aliving.
Anyway questionaires on their way to you.
We are hoping to challenge the stereotyping in the documentary so comments are noted and will be discussed with the director.
Guys - come on - defy the stereotype - do the questionaire and show me that you don't all believe that women run for only one reason.
Why do I run?
I hated sport at school and wasn't any good at it (because I told myself I wasn't).
When I started running (aged 50) a mile was painful and it took me two days to recover. Nearly five years later 5 miles is a "normal" run, I'm training for my third marathon, working part-time in a sports shop and feel five years younger and fitter than I did when I started. I have more confidence to do other things, ie abseiling when I've no head for heights ("If you've done a marathon you can do this.").
I have inspired (so he tells me) a 40-something football player to do a half marathon and a 55-year old woman (not me!) to stand up to her husband and do something she wants, ie running.
I am an internationally published author (ok, so it was only a Canadian running club's newsletter, but it's a start), give talks to WI groups, have raised (so far) £3000 for charity and will soon be launching a scheme for recycling running shoes.
And I like it.
Happy running, all of you.
whenis the shoes thing starting
i now have 3 pairs to donate
In brief, two words "Jane Tomlinson". She inspired me at the youthful age of 46 to train for the London Marathon.
I enjoy plodding and have met some wonderful people, especially through the forum and last week I met some forumites at Reading.
My butt has decreased in size too which is good as it was like a Buckie Drifter!!!!
I don't want to give too much away but I have found that about 95% of guys, when asked, think that women run purely to lose weight.
And that just ain't true - is it girls.
from my point of the view the weight loss has been a bonus rather thana motivation.
FB - absolutely agree with your last comment!
There's more to happyness and life than a size 12 thong worthy bottom!
gin
Why did I start running? I can´t remember, I can never explain my actions at the best of times....
Why do I still run? For about 330 different reasons, and the size 10 thing is just a bonus, I never associated running with losing weight when I started, it just happened!
I am questioning it all a bit at the moment now, having just come back from a 20 mile run (fairly painless) only to discover that I have chafing in a rather unmentionable area AND IT HURTS!!!
no weighing scales?
what a liberated woman you are
If I had no mirror either, (the means by which I noticed my sides were sagging) now that would be true liberation, but I do feel it's important to be able to check if I'm walking out of the house with my face covered in peanut butter.
I am now seriously considering trying to design something, and seeing if I can find anyone to pick up on it and manufacture it.
Thanks again everyone for the responses.
The rain here is Glasgow has just stopped and the sun has put in an appearance, so I had better get out there.