The GNR.

I DID IT! I freaking did it.

For those of you who live under a rock; the GNR stands for the Great North Run. 13.1 miles of absolute torture. That is, if you're like me and do no training for it. Apparently it's a bit of a family tradition; my Dad did a half-marathon, my Uncle a marathon, and both did it with no training. Shows that our family are absolute legends, or absolute idiots. From the pain I'm feeling right now, I'm going to go with the latter.

Got an interview tomorrow, in this state, I'm going to end up walking in looking like I've pooed myself; not a great first impression. Hopefully all the prep I've been doing for it today will make more of an impact on them than my strange walk. Well that's the plan. 

Back to the GNR; admittedly, the atmosphere was pretty epic (who wouldn't love watching the Red Arrows fly overhead with Top Gun's 'Danger Zone' blaring out of the speakers and people giving you free food), however, did I enjoy it? Not one bit. Almost definitely down to my decision to do zero training but even if I had done some(never going to happen), long distance running is not for me. The bit I enjoyed the most was sprinting the last 200m. Running slowly is unnatural; why would you purposely not run as fast as possible? At least that's ticked off my bucket list, never to be re-visited. And for all you non-believers who thought I wouldn't manage it; do one. I did it, I hated it, I didn't do it well and I won't be able to walk properly for a week, but I did it. And for a good cause. Massive thank you to everyone who did believe in me and who's sponsored/is going to sponsor me - you guys kick ass. If you hadn't sponsored me there's no way I'd have managed it, the only reason I kept going was because I didn't want to let you guys down, so major kudos!

Now, onto my next venture; getting a job. I say next venture, it's pretty much THE venture at the minute. At least this one won't physically impair me (hopefully). So, job interview tomorrow, another possible interview this week. I don't think I'm a particularly awful interviewee, what with all my interview experience, which is painfully limited. Will be going through some questions and such with the parents tonight. Making sure I don't make a complete fool out of myself when they throw me the standard 'vague-and-almost-impossible-to-answer' question.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I'd do it myself but my body hurts too much.