Sunday's Charity run & meal

Some of you guys were following my events on Sunday and your support was much appreciated!

Approximately a thousand people turned up to Ickworth Park for the Cancer Research UK event. Me and my wife took part in this occasion - we were numbers 207 & 208 respectively.

Can't say I was looking forward to it, I used my typical approach to new things by using positive negatives, um... almost like psyching myself up for it!

In the end I actually enjoyed it, anxiety were quite low and the exercise was a benefit including the added enjoyment of endorphins, associated with a good physical activity.
When we were on the home straight, the bit i was dreading, we heard our local radio crew (Heart FM) cheer us on, so that was pretty cool [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_biggrin.png[/img]

Later that day we went for a meal with family, in-laws and more. At a place I'd never been too and really i just wasn't up for it at all. It was the longest meal ever, over two hours and I just felt really awful, i don't know how i stopped myself from just leaving... it was that close!

I hardly ate anything and didn't really touch my beer either.
Alex was having a tough time too, he found the noise a little overwhelming at some points and we did actually pop off together to the loo.

It was relief for us both, i don't mean having a wee by the way!! [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_clown.png[/img] Basically that was our temporary ticket out of there for a moment - i felt really at one with Alex as we were both enjoying messing about with this posh sink in the loo, its hard to describe the giggly fun we were having but it felt like 'our' zone... then it was back into the NT world and the anxiety crept back inside us the closer we got to our table!

Afterwards, I managed to avoid any goodbyes... i went straight for the car in the carpark, didn't care if it was rude, it was too bad... i just wanted to go home.

So overall a good morning but an awful afternoon!
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[quote:65dd="Loulou"]You did good and so did Alex bless him...but i know because i followed you on FB throughout the day...WELL DONE!!!! [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_sunny.png[/img][/quote]

Absolutely [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_cheers.png[/img]

It's strange how some evenings are so much worse than others when you're socialising! I've experienced plenty of long evenings being 'sociable'.

Sometimes, the best you can hope for is that you will just get through it. Sitting it out counts as an achievement in my book!

[quote]Sometimes, the best you can hope for is that you will just get through it. Sitting it out counts as an achievement in my book![/quote]
One point to me then [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_biggrin.png[/img] ...not sure the rest of the 'restaurant' participants would have seen it like that, y'know I was probably anti-social, but heck... I didn't ask to go! [img]https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_tongue.png[/img]