My Story
I always thought that one day I'd run a Marathon. I'd done a few Half Marathons and always tried the London ballot in hope. Then in 2021 I found I had a wedge fracture of my lumbar vertebrae that was "almost completely effaced", which led to a diagnosis of a rare incurable blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. I have returned to slowly running shorter distances, but the impact of attempting to run a marathon on my spine is "ill-advised" so I've decided to walk one instead, and in the process raise money for Cancer Research. Without recent advances in treatments for my cancer, it's likely I'd be dead now instead of walking a marathon, as median survival time in the 1990s was about 2 1/2 years, and even in the early 2000s it was about 4 years. In the 2010s at least a third of people lived more than 10 years, and this keeps improving, so by donating you really might be keeping me alive longer (Don't let that put you off)
