“RUNNING STILL KEEPS MY DEMONS AWAY”
Having survived life-thr eatening anor exia, Charley Jennings went on to become an Olympic Torchbearer who ’s won 11 of the 64 marathons and ultr as she ’s run so far
INSPIRATION
WORDS: LISA JA CKSON
Loving every minute at the Harp24
“It was while lying in a hospital bed suffering from an eating disorder, that no one (including myself) expected me to survive, that I first decided to run a marathon,” says Charley Jennings, 42, from Rayleigh in Essex.
“In my early 20s, I suffered from anorexia and the worst point was when, aged 22, I weighed 5st and ended up spending a year in hospital. I’m not sure how it came about, but one day I decided I wanted to get better and began pinning some inspiring things to the noticeboard next to my bed, one of which was to run the London Marathon. I used to run 1500m at school and compete in interschools competitions, so I’d always hoped to run London one day. Although I stopped running once I left school, I always kept active, so that dream became one of the motivating factors that helped me to get well.
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