Who would have thought it?  The girl for whom the phrase "Warm up girls" at the start of a gym lesson meant a dash to the radiator, is running the London Marathon. 

I have been running for almost 4 years now and have done a few half marathons but this is in a completely different league to anything I have done before.  I am well and truly into the training programme as I write this and have just done a "20 miler". 

I am running in aid of BackCare, a charity which campaigns on behalf of all back pain sufferers ( 80% of the population at some stage in their life) and supports research into new treatments for back problems.

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