So why on earth am I doing this?

Good question, and maybe one that has no real answer just yet. I am not sporty or super fit, I am not an adrenalin junkie, or looking for a huge challenge. So why have I signed up to Powerwalk 26.2 miles round the city I live in, at night, in a bra?

Well the immediate and obvious answer is that Alice convinced me. After we had run the Hydro Active 5K last year Alice wanted a new challenge. She had obviously looked into the Moonwalk before and decided she was walking it. So she started badgering me about it, and in a moment of bravado I said yes.

But Bravado isn't going to get me round 26.2 miles.

I have had a think and I reckon I am doing this for women. Every woman in fact. Now I am not denying that men get breast cancer too. But it's rare. Speak to any woman you know and they will know someone whose life has been touched by breast cancer. It is a horrible disease. Now I love my breasts! I don't mean that in a dodgy way but they are part of me as a woman, and when I'm older they will be part of me as a mother. All women have an opinion on their breasts - ask them after a few drinks perhaps! Anyway one of the reasons I'm walking is in celebration of women and breasts.

I'm also doing this for my mummy. She's ace. When I was in my first year at Uni my mummy was diagnosed with a breast lump. She had to have it removed. It was benign. Good news. What came after was horrendous. She was very very poorly. For a very long time. Then she got better. Then it happened again. And she had to have radiotherapy, and drugs. This wasn't very nice. But she's better and improving. Anyway I love her and I'm walking for her.

I'm also walking for families, husbands, daughters, sons, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. Cancer doesn't touch just one life. It touches lots. So I'm walking for those grieving, and hurting, battling, and fighting and thanking.

I guess finally I am walking for myself. I am walking to get fit, to get toned. To focus on something positive. To get strong, to clear my head, to learn more about me and my abilities. I am doing this to acheive. I can almost smell the euphoria of crossing the line.

But now for the how - time to get training! Hannah