WOKING GOOD!
LISA JACKSON HEADS TO THE SURREY HALF - MARATHON IN HONOUR OF A VERY SPECIAL RUNNER VERY FAR AWAY…
LISA JACKSON
SURREY HALF-MARATHON
“Running means more than running: people don’t play a round of golf to commemorate a loved one, but they do run races for them,” the renowned running writer Roger Robinson once said. And for me, and my friend Faye, this was indeed the case in the Surrey Half-Marathon, which was held on a wet but warm spring day.
Faye had been running 10Ks for a few years but had never thought of running further until a friend in South Africa suffered a tragic loss: “In January last year, my friend Gwen’s precious 10-year-old daughter Ella died in a riding accident,” Faye told me. “I knew that running was the one thing that would get her through this heartache.
So I texted her, saying, ‘If you run a halfmarathon, I will too.’ She said yes, which meant no way out for me!”