I started a new job last April as an IMPS (Injury Minimization Programme for Schools) trainer at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and have been given the opportunity to run the London Marathon for them in April 2024. 

Crazily I thought, why not?  It will be a great challenge for me before my 50th birthday.  I am a keen jogger with my friend - mainly to have a chat - so this will need a lot of commitment and effort. 

Oxford Hospitals Charity is a great charity to support; IMPS (https://www.impsweb.co.uk/) delivers training to Year 6 pupils across Oxfordshire in Basic Life Support and accident prevention.  

If you are able to donate it would mean so much to me and give me the push to get on with extending my weekly running miles.

Thanks, Claire x

The London Marathon has become an annual, inspiring and colourful fixture in the world’s sporting calendar since the inaugural race on 29 March 1981: a celebration of fun, fundraising and fancy dress.

Over the years more than a million people have completed the 26.2-mile course – which runs from Blackheath to The Mall, with a spectacular finish in front of Buckingham Palace, showcasing the very best that the capital city has to offer.

What’s more, these participants have raised over a billion pounds for charity and there have been countless amazing tales of human achievement throughout the event’s history – living up to its aim of helping participants ‘to have fun, and provide some happiness and sense of achievement in a troubled world’.