I have ran at different levels since the age of 14, starting with running for Doncaster County at school and then during my time in the Army.

The London Marathon is a fantastic experience something I’ve had the privilege to have previously done before.

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The marathon is a total of 26.2 miles with my normal time on flat ground being anything from 3:30-3:50hrs depending on the goal of that race .Sometimes it’s just great to chat.

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I always try to get a good for age in my category as a personal goal.

I didn’t get a place to run the marathon on the ballot which is a free place, so decided to run for a charity which is Make-A-Wish. The total money needed to raise to run The London Marathon is £2500, a target which I’m yet still to reach.

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My WHY?

As I’ve said I’ve run many marathons, Ultras and shorter Park runs, depending on where I was at in life, and my commitments. So really, the only reason this was a special Marathon to me was because it’s London and it’s a wow factor.

Due to the pandemic which saw the end of my business, along with the joy of home schooling my 4 teens which I will add I absolutely loved, best time of my life as a mum but I somehow lost my Mojo, my WHY for running,

Until that tragic day when the life of a young soul was taken tragically in a car crash, Adam Simms been the young person in question. I still cry when I tell the story of that day, I’d only met Adam once, but my teens spoke fondly of him.

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The realisation that the sudden loss of life of such a resilient, helpful, adventurous, young man, taken too soon, and the pain for his parents to never get the chance to see their son grow has been a driving factor for me. Adam was 18.

 

As a mother of children of similar ages to Adam, I felt the pain of his family. So they say only one person out of every 1 million will run a marathon in their lifetime.

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If you want to …!!!!! but think you can’t .

Then I suggest you do

Because you can.

I’ve ran many marathons.

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I’ve run on consecutive days for marathons, yet this one was my hardest, not only was I stepping into this run with an injury I also had the emotional reason behind that run, and that was hard. I had points in the run when my head was down, and I couldn’t look up because of the tears that welled in my heart, and I started panicking, I couldn’t breathe and had to dig deep. 

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This was my slowest run I’ve ever had.

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This was my hardest run.

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This was for Adam.

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Shankara