We gained a new appreciation for the areas we lived in, Ashleigh Polakiewicz witnessing the sun rise on a sleepy Canary Wharf was breath-taking. The mountain we were all climbing became VERY real and that 100k mark seemed so far away! We continued to share motivating messages, pictures and video updates spurring each other on. Some of us were seasoned runners, whilst others took on this huge personal goal ( Maisie Horrell even took her family out running with her) and we all spurred each other on and achieved some really good distances in the first week. This went surprisingly well with lots of encouragement and some frankly terrifying ‘motivational’ videos from George Tatnell…we were getting into the spirit of it! On the 5th November, 9 of us myself, Rebecca English, Maisie Horrell, Kevin Racher, Ashleigh Polakiewicz, Dominic Watt, Chris Davey, Tom Eagle and George Tatnell set off on our own personal challenge and collective mindset – all differing in ages, backgrounds, locations and runningabilities! Having had my first child earlier this year I wasn’t too sure how much more of a battering my poor postpartum body could take! Week 1 The challenge was given even greater purpose by the suggestion we do it inaid of our corporate charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), and see if we could raise ‘a couple of hundred quid maybe?’ All of a sudden things got very real… Shockingly the hands slowly but surely started to go up in favour of this (completely ludicrous) idea, after all 100k wouldn’t be so bad over 4 weeks right? Determined not to downward spiral, we discussed as an organisation what we could do collectively to give us focus and to help our mental wellbeing.Įver the courtroom jester, our Director Kevin Racher suggested we each try and run 100k throughout lockdown 2.0. When the news landed on the 21st October 2020 that the nation would be heading into a second lockdown, at Pro-Recruitment our hearts sank. ‘What a year it’s been?!’ has probably been the most uttered phrase of the last 3 months…but in all seriousness what a year it has been and what a profound effect the last 10 months have had on our mental health.
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