This year I will be running the Great North dressed in a rather amusing clown outfit (so i'll look like a doylem) run as part of the 'Celebrating Katy' Team for Epilepsy Action. I've finally decided (read: forced) to get off my arse and do this, after my mum did it last year. So leave me some Wonga then watch the run on 19th September and look out for a group of clowns! 

Epilepsy is something that can happen to all of us and at any time, as in the case of Katy Doyle who was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of just 24 with no previous record of this illness. Yet just a few months after being diagnosed tragically she died in her own bedroom following a seizure, a condition called sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).

A lot of people think epilepsy is something you are born with and are unaware that it can strike anybody and that it can be fatal. To celebrate Katy's life and raise vital funds for epilepsy research six of our family will run dressed as clowns to bring a touch of fun to this year's 30th BUPA Great North Run.

Epilepsy Action is not one of your major charity campaigners like Cancer UK, but never the less needs all the money it can get for research and better facilities for patients, so every little donation no matter how small helps.