Running for a man I never met.

I married my wife in November 2019, an amazing day but was missing one vital person, Her father Peter Ongley. Peter was a kind, fit, loving family man who saw the best in everyone and was grateful for his life and to be alive every day. You see he died in Feb 2015, 8 months before I met my wife. She and her family lost someone pretty special that day and the aftermath has affected and devastated them every day since.
He was diagnosed in December 2013 with Leukaemia, Atypical Chronic Myeloid (CML) overlapped with Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). The Leukaemia was the rarest of the rare so they were unable to permanently name and diagnose. It was so rapid and constantly changing it was very difficult and challenging to treat.
In the final weeks of his life he was offered a trial with only 5% chance of success, he loved life so much he would take any odds to beat this awful illness. I believe like him, sometimes even that little bit of hope is worth it even if the odds are stacked against you.
Bloodwise/Blood Cancer UK helped fund this trial giving people a chance of beating this disease.
I have never ran a marathon before, this will be the most challenging and difficult thing I have ever done so far in my life. But this challenge is nothing compared to what others have and are going through. I’m running this to honour this amazing man and to help give hope to people fighting Blood Cancer just like Peter fought until the very end. 

Please note I will now be running the London Marathon in 2022 not the 2021 event as stated here as for some reason it won’t let me update it.