“IF ANYTHING’S GOING TO HAPPEN, WE’RE THE ONES WHO HAVE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN”
Actress Emma Manton couldn’t sit by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolded in 2015. So she took action – and running was the cataly st
INSPIRATION
WORDS: CLAIRE CHAMBERLAIN
Running has been transformative for me,” says Emma Manton, 39, an actress from south London. “Whenever I talk about the last few years, it still takes me a bit by surprise.
“I started running in 2014. A friend was training for her first marathon, so I thought I’d go along and see what this whole running thing was about. I was working away from home, in Stratford, and my son had just started school, so I suddenly had a bit of headspace to think, hang on, maybe this is something I can get on with.
“My friend was getting so much out of it and Stratford’s a beautiful place to run. Plus we were doing a play set in the trenches, and all the boys were doing a lot of fitness stuff to get ready for that, but the girls were just hanging on the sidelines, which didn’t seem much fun. So we ended up going running!
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