In December 2017 my mum was living a perfectly normal life - she was working a full time job, playing with her grandchildren at weekends and helping my sister to move house. Then, out of the blue, she was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. She passed away just 7 weeks later, having spend around 24 hours at home since her diagnosis. The rest of her time was split between various hospital wards and a hospice.

Sadly, this is simply the nature of pancreatic cancer. It is almost never diagnosed early enough for any real treatment and, once symptoms appear, it is very aggressive.

I want to do something, anything to try and stop even one person from having to go through the same experience.

I am attempting to run 2 megameters (2000km) over the course of 2018. This is roughly one marathon per week (or the distance from London to Corfu).

Anyone particularly interested in keeping tabs on my progress can find me on Strava. I'll be recording all of my runs there. I'll also try to post periodic updates here.