When I suffered a relapse with anxiety and depression last year, free counselling offered by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation helped me overcome the personal problems I was facing. That service and taking up running again (after a 10 year interlude) are two things that really helped me turn things around!

The LFG offer a remarkable range of free services and support that help thousands of people every year.  I've been able to turn to them more than once during personal crises and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

So to say thank you, and to celebrate my re-ignited love of running, I'm trying to raise as much money as possible for them by running the Wilmslow half marathon on 24th March, the Manchester BUPA 10km on 26th of May and hopefully another half marathon in Cologne on 13th October.  Bear in mind when I did athletics as a teenager I ran 100 - 400m, not 21km (gulp)! So this is going to be one hell of a challenge.

Please dig deep to help me say thank you to some wonderful people who helped me out when I really needed it.

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