London marathon 2014

I was up at 4am...4AM...FOUR....AM....on the 29th April to sign up for this! 4AM! Ballots opened at 12am and I was going to stay up but I got too tired and knew I'd have to get up early for work the next day anyway so fell asleep. Oops. Ballots closed in a record time of 11 and 1/2 hours (so I was technically 7 and 1/2 hours EARLY and don't take this away from me because that's the earliest I've ever been for anything)  I have to wait until early October to find out....so even though I was up at the crack of dawn it doesn't guarantee me a place! I don't think I'll get a place, I was talking to a guy who's entered the ballot for the past 5 years and has never got a place! I would love love love loooooove it if I did get a place, it's something I've always wanted to do. Imagine crossing the finish line and thinking 'I just ran the London Marathon!' - you can tell people 'I did it!' That must be an amazing feeling! The pride and emotion that comes with completion must be so intense AND I'll be running for cancer research and that just means so much MORE!!!!!

I have a year to train but I think I may need 2 years! Its 26.2 miles! The furthest I've ran is about 5 miles. I'm following a training plan that states by October (when I find out if I have a place or not) I should be at marathon level...so in 21 weeks or 153 days I SHOULD be able to run 26.2 miles. Hmmmmmmm. So...if I actually follow this plan and it ACTUALLY works....this could be interesting and to be honest at least I'll lose weight and get fitter even if I don't get a place.

But I won't be running alone. oh no I won't! I signed Hannah up to. I don't think she was too impressed when she got the confirmation email....

I had to go to work but I would of loved to have seen her face when she opened the email! She wants to do it anyway so she thanked me after. It's going to be hard work if we do get places and at the moment I'm not too bothered and in my head it's not going to happen so if I get an email saying I've got a place I'll officially poop myself. I'll be terrified. Hopefully Laura will be running aswell! I hope so! My 2 favourite people EVER running by my side....or about 5 miles in front of me.....

I'm trying to save but now I'm thinking of all the things I need to buy. 

I have trainers but I want the new Nike trainers

I want new running trousers and on the day I want to wear shorts. 

I want a running top

I want to stay over in London after the marathon. 

ugh. I need to win the lottery. 

If you really look at it I'm quite a selfish person....

On a plus note today I transferred money to pay off half my debt. Next month is the other half then its finished!!!!! Then I'm officially debt free. BOOM! I'm so excited. The feeling of being debt free will be like a runners high =D 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Staffordshire Film Festival. 

So one of my closest friends is very talented at making animation movies and having a friend this talented has its benefits. Tickets to movie festivals. One of her animations was entered into the film festival this year and the little superstar won 'Best Animation'!

It was the longest day ever though, an hour and half to get there and then a 6 hour day of watching movies. I had lots of coffee. 

Of all the movies I would say there was about 4 that blew me away. One, of course, was Lauras which I'm trying upload but it wont let me! Ah! 

One of my favorites was a short film called 'Driftwood' by James Webber. This was INCREDIBLE. It gave me goosebumps. Its about a fifteen year old swimmer called Sam. He lives in 2 very different worlds. His swimming world and the world outside swimming where he's threatened by gangs and abused by his dad. 

http://www.driftwoodfilm.co.uk/

To me, the message of this film was 'you can let life make you or break you'  I think I could do a whole post on this film alone. It's one of those films that's just so inspiring you feel so optimistic after watching it. Having the talent to inspire people like this is a talent that I would love.
Another film was a zombie apocalypse one. I LOVE my zombie apocalypses so as I as soon as I saw it I was like 'this is gonna be good!' and it was EPIC! I've also ACTUALLY got a youtube link (because it won't let me post the video via youtube :s) so you can watch it:
22 hours
my 2 favorite quotes from this are:
'Sometimes the most beautiful moments come from the worst 
and
We've become so obsessed with the future that we don't see the beautiful all around us. It is beautiful. 
The last film I liked....well I say liked I actually think it was the longest, most boring film of the day  but when I finally understood the meaning I was like 'oh. That's pretty cool' I can't remember what the film was called but I can talk about the meaning. 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' it showed the artist living a run down area and it looked quite an awful place to live however when he painted his favourite place to visit he made it look so beautiful because to him its a place of beauty, calm and serenity despite the way it looked. His experiences and memories made him view this broken area with love. It reminded me of my all time favourite Doctor Who Quote:

“You know sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, “Not bad. They’re okay.” And then you get to know them and their face just sort of becomes them, like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.”

-Amy Pond

Did I just bring Doctor Who into this post...? Yes. Yes I did.

Overall the day was brilliant, the atmosphere with brilliant and the sweet stand was brilliant.