To mark five years since my major health scare and to celebrate losing a third of my body weight, I am going to attempt to run a marathon. I could not have run to the end of the street a few years ago and I would not be here now if it were not for the socialist values of the NHS. So I entered the Edinburgh Marathon on 24 May 2020 (then postponed till September and now till next year!) and want to raise at least £1,000 for my organisation - the Socialist Party - who work day and night to defend the NHS and all public services and who are fighting for a socialist society where ordinary working people run things for the benefit of all of us - not just a handful of the very rich.