ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
Our new columnist, cancer thriver and witty Insta queen Emma Campbell, marvels at the strength of her body and her new title: a runner
WHO IS EMMA?
Emma is a runner, a writer, a mother and a cancer thriver. Her book, All That Followed, describes her ongoing cancer tug of war and how she manages that while bringing up four children. Follow her@limitless_em
I’ve got to say, this isn’t quite the first contribution I had in mind for what’s quickly come to be my favourite magazine. This first column was supposed to be all marathon this, marathon that…18, 19, 20-mile training runs done at time of writing. Endless sickly sweet gels consumed and lost toenails at every turn.
Scrawled in my diary in big, bold print for 26 April 2020: the Virgin Money London Marathon. My first marathon. Bugger.
Life changing
But I’m not here to complain. We’re all reeling from the impact of Covid-19 – so many aspects of our lives changed in ways we could never have imagined and it goes without saying that having to temporarily let go of that particular dream isn’t the biggest of challenges.