My Story

I had a minor heart attack in August 2023. I was 49 years of age, a non-smoker, light drinker, relatively fit and not overweight. But I was stressed. The health care I received from the NHS was amazing. 

Little known, is that women experience heart attacks differently to men. Our symptoms often go unnoticed. I could easily have dismissed mine. So I am running the London Marathon for Heart Research UK to help raise awareness as well as funds.

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’.