I'm thankful for my legs, so I thought I'd better use them!

I decided this year it was time to set myself a challenge, a hard one...one that people who know me might not think I could complete. Not just for myself, but I wanted to do something worthwhile in raising money for charity and I figured if I chose a hard challenge then people might be more willing to sponsor me.
So here it is...I think I better set the scene first before I tell you what I'm doing...
My history of running is well...0, apart from the compulsory bits of P.E that I couldn't avoid, and even then I was the one walking at the back and taking sneaky shortcuts through trees when it came to long distance around the school field...there were no shortcuts I didn't know about! I attempted to run for a train a couple of years ago, almost collapsed after 100m, if that, got shin splints trying to power walk because I couldn't run and missed my train, resulting in a very large taxi fare!
So to sum up...I am most certainly NOT a runner!
With that in mind, here is my charity challenge...
Complete the Cumbrian run in October... All 13 miles of it, preferably without walking!
I have been following the NHS 'couch to 5k' programme and have completed week 6. There are a few of us training together, some are aiming for the race for life and some for the Cumbrian run...none of us were runners before we started.
The plan started with 5 minute walking warm up, and then 1 minute run, 90 seconds walking, repeated 8 times and then 5 minute walk to cool down. If I am totally honest...I was willing the lady on the podcast to tell me I could walk each time and was genuinely dreading the thought of running for a full 5 minutes never mind 30 (which is how long you should be running for by the end of the 9 week programme)
Well as I mentioned earlier, I have just completed week 6 and am now running for 25 minutes with no walking in the middle! I went out with Fi this morning and although I have done two 25 minute runs before, I found it really hard, my legs were like lead and within the first 10 minutes I think I might have struggled to keep motivated without Fi running behind me! But we did it! I now feel like I can definitely achieve 5k...but that's not my challenge! I will be updating you as I try to make it through the rest of my training, a daunting thought. But for now, I will concentrate on the first sub-challenge and hopefully keep surprising myself :-)