WaterFacts… Did you know?

World population reached 7 billion in 2011.

One in eight people in the world have only dirty water to drink.

Water is good for us! We should drink around six glasses of water each day.

In Britain each of us uses around 160 litres of water every day.

The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking.

WaterAid’s life changing safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects cost as little as £15 per person. 

( www.wateraid.org/statistics ) 

Please if you think Clean & Safe Water should be accessible to everyone, help me run for Water by donating at:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/forabetterworld

By getting all involved we could make a huge difference in the lives of millions of persons!

"The Future has a way of arriving unannounced".George Will (1941- )

(unfortunately!)

Two weeks hast just flown away. Two weeks off track from my preparation for the marathon in which my guilty consciousness kept hearing words such as “Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success” (Henry Ford). So today I was finally ready to find out how easy it is for a body (mine at least!) to get used to a sedentary lifestyle. I ran 6 miles; it wasn’t as bad as the beginning but my last performance 18 miles in 3 .15 hours felt like a vague dream. In less than a month I have the marathon so those few weeks left promise to be intense. Today I managed to run 6 miles; tomorrow I will try to push it to 12 miles with the hope that by Sunday I will be back to an 18 miles performance.  

I can therefore say it loud and clear: I am back into my running shoes!