Mile 26!! I've done a marathon!

You know when you have a really good idea, and then you have to do it? Yes… well I seem to do that a lot! My most recent idea involved me running/ walking a mile a day in May in memory of my dad and Bev, in the hopes of raising some money for Cancer Research UK and the Bowel Babe fund.I can do that, no problem, I thought to myself as I typed my name into the “sign up here” box! I don’t know why I had so much self-confidence, I haven’t run more than about 50 meters since 1996. Anyway, I clicked the button, and for the whole of this month I have somehow managed to do this challenge. My legs are aching, I’ve cried more that I ever thought I would, at one point I think I hit “the wall”, but on the 26th May I passed a very significant milestone for me. Mile 26, the Marathon mile. (Yes, I know that an actual marathon is 26.2 miles, but 26 is close enough for me.) Mile 26 was always going to be significant for me because dad ran 3 marathons in his life, and one of those was when he was 46,…