This last year has been such a humbling, scary and hard year. I’m sure people know the story. But I finished Loch Ness 2023 and just never bounced back.

The months that followed were pain in all my joints all the time, fatigue like I’ve never felt, hair loss, weight fluctuation and an emotional break down. Now I think the most scary part of it was trying to run a 5k with a friend which at that point I should have been able to do no problem and I just could not keep up.

It was humiliating here I am just ran this marathon can’t run a 5k or nothing. I had to stop my full routine no gym no nothing. I remember being on the phone to a friend almost crying because I had to stop the gym because I couldn’t physically go on.

Me. Unable to do it. Ill I thought. Just how bad am I. You go to a dark place. Then to find out you have a tumour, albeit benign, but still a tumour affecting all your hormones coming for your sight. It was nuts.

I went from the high of finishing this marathon to being out and being put on meds that would do my body’s normal functions. When I started to feel better I was itching to get out but didn’t on doctors orders.

When they cleared me I got back up. Now I’m back to a 5k and more than ever I’m wanting to challenge myself again. I want to get back to the distance that almost broke me. I want get this distance under my belt in 4 hours hopefully. That would mean a lot of weight to lose and a lot of training.

This charity means the world to me. It’s helped me to understand my conditions and how to deal and to understand them. It’s a horrible place to be in having an illness no one can see or understand I just hope others get sorted in my position and want to help a place that might help them in the future.

Thanks for reading and supporting this event 💙