Race for life

On Sunday just gone my youngest daughter Sarah did something which I thought was impossible for her, very foolish (for her) but at the same time very brave! She and Eden ran the Tesco Race for Life in Bath.
This is a race that is organised by Tesco every year in many cities and towns up and down the country and all the participants raise money for the Breast Cancer charity. The distance is 3 kilometres and you can get around by walking, jogging or running, whichever suits you.
Sarah is not what I would call an 'active' person unlike her older sister Emma who never stops! Sarah prefers to drive rather than walk anywhere, but sometimes being a busy single Mum of three who works full time I can understand why she is like this and although Eden gets a lot of physical exercise, I don't think running is her thing!
Anyway, I jokingly said to Eden on Saturday evening that I would hear about them coming in holding hands about three hours after everyone else had finished, because although they had both said they would do some 'training', they never did.
Imagine my surprise on Sunday afternoon when Eden rang me to say they had both finished and they did the race in forty five minutes. They ran until they couldn't run any more, then walked and finally jogged to the finish. I think Eden raised twenty two pounds and Sarah raised double that.
I am very proud of both of them especially because I could not have done it in this warm weather. If it had been on a freezing day in the middle of winter I would have been able to walk the course.
Now I'll have to cough up the cash because they finished the course (I would have done so anyway!).
WELL DONE SARAH AND EDEN!