I do like words.<\/p>\n
I like to collect words.<\/p>\n
I like to find new ones, store them up, and keep them for a rainy day.<\/p>\n
Mostly my days are filled with words like journals, monographs, spreadsheets, space, library of congress, rolling stack, store and anagrams like UKRR and COPAC and NAG.\u00a0 I know.<\/p>\n
But recently my days have been flooded with words like complex carbs, training schedule, miles, gait, foam rolling, fartlek, ouch and anagrams like IT Band, ER (easy run) and LR (long run).<\/p>\n
This is because I have done a slightly mad thing and signed up for the London Marathon.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d like to read the story behind it all please visit my page here:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/uk.virginmoneygiving.com\/SianCox1<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of my favourite memories of last time was seeing the wonderful library support gang that came up to London town to cheer me on.\u00a0 It was about mile 19 in Canary Wharf and I was really struggling.\u00a0 Then I heard some music.\u00a0 And then I realised the music was following me.\u00a0 And I saw my wonderful library friends running alongside me with a proper beatbox playing\u2026I can\u2019t remember the song\u2026 I think it might have been Salt-N-Pepa. I think I was a bit delirious.\u00a0 But they cheered me on and had made me a flag.\u00a0 There may have been tears.\u00a0 (There were.\u00a0 From me.)<\/p>\n And that\u2019s the thing about this lovely library place.\u00a0 It is full of wonderful people who support you in all endeavours.\u00a0 And that\u2019s a really important thing to remember I think.<\/p>\n I also remember at mile 13 being given a sweet by a little boy in the crowd.\u00a0 I was so grateful.\u00a0 I took it from his outreached hand and when I looked it was a Starburst (Opal fruit to those of us who grew up in the 80s).\u00a0 And it still had its wrapper on.\u00a0 Only my hands were so frozen I couldn\u2019t open the wrapper. \u00a0Not just cold frozen but actually almost stuck frozen. \u00a0I tried for about five minutes as I was so desperate for the sugar.\u00a0 In the end I just ate it with the paper on.\u00a0 And it tasted amazing.<\/p>\n And as well as eating sweets covered in paper on the way round last time I saw stories of hope and loss and pain and triumph.<\/p>\n And it was totally amazing and awe inspiring.\u00a0 In the truest sense of those words.<\/p>\n So I really hope to make it to the start line this time.<\/p>\n And I would be so glad of your support too.\u00a0 So please send any tips, advice, complex carbs recipes, songs that inspire or that can help me round or just words. Because I do like words.<\/p>\n Thanks everyone<\/p>\n Si\u00e2n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Si\u00e2n Cox I do like words. I like to collect words. I like to find new ones, store them up, and keep them for a rainy day. Mostly my days are filled with words like journals, monographs, spreadsheets, space, library of congress, rolling stack, store and anagrams like UKRR and COPAC and NAG.\u00a0 I … Continue reading What I think about when I think about running<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[150885],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fi5f-4L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libstaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}