Earlier this year I ran Brentwood half marathon. It wasn't as overwhelmingly terrible as I expected so... I'm running a full marathon!

I'm going to be raising money for Mind.

Mental illness affects around 1 in 4 people, but there's still not enough support to help the hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering. Mind provide help and support to those who need it, across the country.

The image is of me on the finishing straight of Brentwood half marathon, doing a (terrible) impression of a Marco Pantani finish.

Pantani was an Italian cyclist who suffered from depression and drug addiction and died on Valentine's Day 2004 from a cocaine overdose. The Italian court said; "The results show his death depended solely on his own actions, so as to consider it more likely than not a voluntary suicide death caused accidentally by a voluntary excessive intake of cocaine."

Mental illness can affect anyone. I, and Mind, appreciate every penny donated.