Leo, my (almost 5 yrs old) asked me yesterday: "Mummy, what is a Place2Be ? " He's heard the name floating around as we're raising money for this charity, through some events and also through running the Berlin marathon.  It's a charity that's located in schools, to support children's mental health, right? But that went over Leo's head, obviously, so he moved on. I went to him, and opened a conversation about it. The "You know when you sometimes feel/want/don't want something? Well, this thing Ima tell you about helps kids with that". So, I told him it's a place that helps children that feel very worried, sad, with tricky problems that are hard to fix, to become happy again. That means that a special 'Teacher-person' will always be in the school, in a special room, and all that person will do is not phonics, maths, history, P.E. etc, but help children feel very safe, very important, very heard, and learn how to fix so many

I wanted to do anything else. I had to myself a huge chunk of day, 9am-12pm where I could whatever I wanted. This is not a post about how I did the honourable and inspiring thing, persevering even when it was hard, and just look at how determined I was, take a leaf of this smug book ya lazy ^&(&%.  It's just a ramble, really, trying to figure out why I didn't feel like getting outside.  I even have now nice bright sparkly new running shoes, that I wished for ages but never felt justified to get them, until this project...they are so comfortable and awesome, (and expensive, but it's obvious why).  I had 3 rest days after the last long slow run on Saturday,, where to be honest, I pushed a bit too much, and covered around 18-20Km. 3 days is a longish rest period, and  it was time to limber up and do the stuff set for this week: 3 short runs at various paces, and one long slow run at the weekend (when I say paces, I mean going faster or slower based on how suffocated I