I originally signed up for this London Marathon back in October 2019, to raise money for Heart Research UK and continue my running recovery from a history of SVT and subsequent ablations.

However, on September 4th this month I lost a childhood best friend. David Hyde collapsed after a rugby game and, despite medical teams best efforts at the John Radcliffe, they could not restart his heart.

David, or ‘Doin’ as we’d come to know him (long story) was a great man. My day one. Friends through primary and secondary school, 6th form and many years after, he was everything you’ve probably read about him and more. Kind, caring, funny (even if he didn’t always mean to be!), the lot. A true gentle giant, taken far too soon. 

On the 3rd October I’ll be running the London Marathon in memory of Doin and continuing to raise money for Heart Research UK. Every penny on this page has and will go towards funding life-saving medical research into future prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease. Any donation you could spare to help support this would be greatly appreciated.

Every steps for you now big guy, let’s do this ❤️