One month on from starting this year's challenge and I am making good progress already. I have to say that I am starting to really enjoy my running. To think that when I started this two years ago, I had not run since school. The first year I managed runs of 2kms, 5kms and just one or two 10kms. Then last year I started regular 5kms, 10kms and one or two 20kms. This year however, I have bettered previous campaigns. My runs are usually between 10km and 20kms long.

Last night I managed a 10kms run which was possibly the fasted I had run that distance. Still not of Sir Mo standards and taking into account I am close to 55 years old, having an average of 7 minutes per km is fine by me!

So here I am exactly one month after I started this year's campaign and the total distance completed so far is 174.00kms. That is actually already 74kms more than the entire campaign of 2017, and I still have 4 months left to go!

The total money raised so far stands at £313.00 which is now £13 more than I raised last year!

Feeling quite proud of myself right now, I have to admit.