I love reading stories to my children, it really is one of life's great pleasures. Some of the stories are truly magical and are brilliant at introducing big life moments, there's a house inside my mummy, goodbye mog. I also love the fact that a good children's book is timeless, I remember being read Dogger as a child and now I'm reading it to my children. It breaks my heart that some children are denied this and so I'm doing my part to raise money for Emeralds charity of the year BookTrust.

I got into running over covid and have slowly pushed my distances up and up, I have done a handful of shorter solo ultras (circa 60km) as well as a couple of multi-day challenges, last year running the west Highland way (160km) in 2.5 days. These have all pushed my boundaries, but I have known within that they were all achievable. This challenge is going to push my boundaries so much more and I am genuinely nervous about my ability to complete it. As well as the event itself I am pushing myself further than ever before in training miles week in week out.

The challenge is to run Wainwright's Coast to Coast (circa 300km) in 5 days (probably one of the most influential authors on my adult life). That's an average of 60km a day and ascending nearly the height of Everest (8000m).