Every year for many years, I’ve applied for a ballot slot in the London Marathon. This year in July I received an email to say that I was IN! Mind racing as I couldn’t run 1km at this point, I found myself accepting my challenge. 

And a challenge it is already.

 So far I’ve been up and down on the mileage & my 16 week programme starts the 1st January. 

This is a huge challenge for me, whilst I thought I was relatively fit and healthy, I didn’t realise the huge toll that it would be on my body. This is by far the hardest thing I will ever do mentally & physically. 

I’m doing this for me partly to prove to myself that mentally I can do anything that my mind sets it self to do, and I’m lucky enough to be able to make those choices. 

Some people aren’t so lucky and this leads me into why I’m raising money alongside my training for Alzheimers Society.

Alzheimer’s is an illness which can’t be predicted and makes you a stranger in your own head. 

We remember always, my Gran who loved walks & ate endless amounts of Cake with hardly any savoury. She also loved to just go for “rides” in the car. 

In the end she lost the fight because the disease simply let her mind think it was ok to stop eating, to stop drinking & her own mind let her body shut down. 

I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure to stop the mind taking over,  but I do hope that my donation will help just make one impact for someone living with dementia to get a carer or a dementia friend to help make the journey a little more bearable.

I read once that if you make someone with Alzheimer’s smile for just 10 minutes a day it will make there whole day most positive, even if they don’t remember why. 

So let’s help do that please donate, share my journey with others and hopefully once I’ve completed this challenge, I will have helped with making one persons day better 💙