Somerville Heart Foundation is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to supporting young people and adults born with all forms of heart conditions, known as Congenital Heart Disease (or CHD). There are an estimated 250,000 young people and adults living in the UK who were born with a heart condition - the support provided by the charity includes Mental Health & Wellbeing counselling, informative leaflets, a quarterly newsletter, a helpline and much more.

I was diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve & have check-ups every 2 years. So far everything is still OK & I hope this will remain the same for many years to come.

I am fundraising for Somerville Heart Foundation to help raise awareness of congenital heart conditions as not all people born with a heart condition are as fortunate as me and require a lot more care and attention.

I started running in 2012 to improve my fitness and completed my first Marathon in 2014. I have completed 99 marathons/ultra marathons to date and Hope 24 is my next challenge - 100 miles in 24 hours. Hopefully all my training will make this possible and running for this amazing charity will give me the added focus required to get the job done!