Thank you so much for visiting my page.

Yep, still running... still training. The words below were from way back at the end of 2019, when I first started on my marathon journey. Little did I know that a year and a half later I would still be going!

Original blurb here:

I can't quite believe it myself, but at the grand old age of 51 I've secured myself a place in the 2020 London Marathon, a "bucket list" dream of mine that I'm still pinching myself to prove is really happening. 

But this is not about me. This is about the urgent need for more research for funding into what is now the largest cause of death in the UK: the diseases
- such as Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and other rarer forms like dementia with Lewy Bodies, fronto-temporal dementia and posterior cortical
atrophy - that cause dementia.

Sadly, these diseases are now so prevalent that one in two of you reading this will know someone affected. Unless we find a treatment or cure (currently there is none) one in three people born today will go on to develop one of these
diseases. That's awful! 

But Alzheimer's Research UK, the charity that I work for, and that I am fundraising for now, believes that with your support and vital funding, breakthroughs ARE possible. 

Every pound you raise will fund our world-class pioneering research, into the diseases that cause dementia, working towards our ultimate goal of a world free from its heartbreak. 

Here are some examples of what your money could do:

* £20 pays for 1 hour of pioneering dementia  research. 

* £100 could provide the tools for scientists to map 10,000 genes in minute detail, identifying targets for the development of new treatments.

* £500 will cover the cost of a sensitive brain scan for a patient involved in a research study, tracking the effectiveness of new drug treatments,
improving diagnosis and better understanding how diseases like Alzheimer’s wreak their havoc in the brain. 

* £1000 will pay for reagents, unique chemicals that are crucial for successfully growing cells in a laboratory ready for disease study.

* £2500 will allow researchers to buy synthetically made amyloid, to better understand this hallmark Alzheimer’s protein in the lab.

Every day at work I talk to our amazing supporters and their families: brave people who are themselves living with dementia but are passionate about the
need to destigmatise this physical illness and to fund research that will drive the search for a cure. Their passion and commitment is humbling, and I am
honoured to be able to do my small bit by dragging myself around (gulp!) 26 miles of London to support them. Any support that YOU can give me will be so very genuinely appreciated.

Jude x