Words Katie Campbell Spyrka
When 30-year-old nonrunner Laura Jones agreed to run the Everest Marathon over a bottle of wine with a client two years ago, little did she know just how far her running journey would take her.
Least of all that the idea would snowball from completing one marathon to running seven – on different continents – within a year. “I had no idea what I’d let myself in for,” she laughs. “Especially given I wasn’t a runner at the time!”