STAR LETTER REASONS TO RUN
On my return from the Orkney Marathon (most wonderful experience), I picked up your magazine to read on the ferry. I love your stories and feel an empathy with many of your readers and writers. I took up running in my mid-thirties due to ill health and to help me deal with the impending 10th anniversary of losing our first-born son during pregnancy (it’s never easy day to day, but the anniversary was always such a hard time). I ran the London Marathon in Daniel’s memory one year after taking up running and haven’t stop running since. My youngest daughter promised herself when she saw me finish [the 10th anniversary London Marathon], that she would run it when she turned 18 – which she well and truly did! Running and the running community have been my constants during many ups and downs in my life and, like your fellow runners, it always helps me turn a negative into a positive. Keep up the great work, happy running everyone.
SUSAN BROWN