a few more challenges completed and underway...

So... the keeping a blog challenge is not going so well... as I have not been updating this on where I am with my challenges... so this is what you have been missing out on!

London Marathon

So the challenge I was set was actually a half marathon... which at the time some of the 'challenge setters' though this might be maybe pushing it too far! However... unbeknownst to any of the challenge setters at the time I had already applied to run the london marathon and had been accepted! Which was a bit of a joke as at this point I could not run half a mile without stopping! So... after many months of training, running in the rain and minus temperatures, refraining from curry and alcohol on 17th April this year I completed the London Marathon! And here is my post marathon photo (where I am wearing my much loved medal) to prove it! And all the wonderful people who came along to cheer me on - not only on the day but during the months leading up to the big day - coming along for a few practice runs, listening to me moaning about blisters and pushing me out of the office door to go for a run around the block! (and now many of whom are up for running the marathon themselves next year... I am not sure if I am an inspiration or make it seem easier knowing that I have not exactly been on a par with Paula Radcliffe but more Ronald Macdonald when it comes to running!)

Going the wrong way up/down an escalator
So today...while in the Harlequin this challenge was completed! I went down the 'up escalator' outside Starbucks. This was not a planned challenge - but more that the down escalator was not working and had been blocked off... so I decided to walk down the other one (which was also stopped) then half way down I realised that this was actually one of my challenges! Brilliant!