About Me

Hello and welcome to me and my bonkers challenge that is '15 Marathons in 15 Months'

My name is Kerry and I am from Hackney, in London. Well originally I am from a tiny little place called Loftus, and you're probably asking yourself right now "Where the bloody hell is Loftus?" Well it's in the North East of England.  I am born a proud northerner but 15 years in London certifies me as a Londoner now I reckon :) I have a bit of an obsession for all things running related combined with raising money for charity.

Running: I began running 6 years ago. The only reason I started was because a 'Santa's on the Run 5k' in London, were offering a free Santa costume when you signed up! It only dawned on me a few days later that I'd have to now train for a 5k!! I knew nothing about running, I mean NOTHING! Yet here I am 5 years later with well over 50 races completed of 10ks, half marathons and marathons. That's right, marathons. Big, fat 26.2 miles of marathons.

Since taking up running, my life has completely turned itself around. Not that there was anything wrong with my life before running it's just made it so much more incredibly awesome!! Let's just get a few things straight. I'm not a professional athlete! I'm not a fast runner. So no world records are gonna be broken by me anytime,ever! What I do have, is the heart of a champion and the determination of a hungry lion taking down a zebra!

Marathons: from doing my first 5k in December 2009, I did my first half marathon, The Great North Run, 9 months later. As soon as I crossed that finish line in South Shields, as much as I was hurting, my instant thought was "I want to run a marathon". Suddenly nothing felt impossible.

There was really only one marathon I had to do. The Virgin London Marathon. As it was September, I'd missed the ballot and the results for the 2011 race were about to be posted out. Also during this time I had just found out that a dear old school friend of mine, Richard Taylor, was fighting leukaemia. So I was as determined than ever so fight for a charity place and run to support him. I got on the phone to 'Children with Cancer', who at the time were called 'Children with Leukaemia' and didn't let them hang up until they offered me one of their charity places. It worked, they offered me one there and then. Like I said, determination of a lion. Sadly, Richard passed away during my training and he never got to see me do this for him. I was now running in his memory. I did just that. I did him proud. Raised a lot of money for charity in his name. He was my strength in finishing that race and my passion for running marathons and raising money for charities was born. When I finish this challenge in December this year, my marathon total will be 20. Not bad for non runner who was only after a Santa costume!!

Blogging: As I have begun this challenge I have had a lot of people ask me to start a blog. I was never really interested in it before as I'm not a creative writer and my spelling is shite. I've mainly been using Instagram as I enjoy blogging through pictures. Though recently, I set up a Facebook page so people could follow my journey there, but people who were not on Facebook (that's right, some people aren't on Facebook) we're suggesting I set this up so they could follow my antics here. So here it is.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert, all I can give you is honest and straight from the heart posts. No bull shit. What I do know about running now, is everyone thinks they know EVERYTHING about running. There is so much contradicting advice out there. Some I take note of most I ignore. I'm not here to say what is right or wrong. I'm just here to offer a bit of inspiration to people out there who want to achieve things but may be a bit scared to do so. I want some one to think " fuck it!, if she can do it so can I"

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