Hello Lovely Peeps

In a major fit of insanity I have signed up to run the London Marathon in October.  Running is really not my thing (my body shape tells you all you need to know!), but having knocked it off my bucket list a good decade ago I watched it on the television last year and thought ‘it’s now or never’. So now it is. My aim is to ‘knock it off my bucket list’ without actually ‘kicking the bucket’. 

I will be running for the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. Our journey to parenthood was long and challenging, with seventeen rounds of IVF, seven pregnancies and five losses – two of which were complicated and life-threatening ectopics. One in eighty pregnancies end like this and the Ectopic Pregnancy Trust offers invaluable support, research and education to both sufferers and professionals. In a post-Roe v Wade-overturning world (I would probably be dead twice over and Biba wouldn’t exist – a sobering thought), supporting charities such as this feels even more important.

I started my training in November: it would be safe to say I underestimated the time, effort and toll on my body that it would take and I’m soooo wishing I’d attempted it in my previous decade!  If I’d realised it would require 125 runs over 850 miles and take 185 hours to train, but that the calories I’d burn wouldn’t even equate to 120 pieces of cake, I might have thought twice about signing up!  But here I am: nervous, but also really excited and very determined to make it to the finish, even if it takes me all day - which it will!

Any support you can give me – however small – will be so appreciated and will spur me through my training and across that line.

Sx