The Lily Foundation was founded in Lily's memory, having lost her battle to Mitochondrial Disease at just eight months old. It's now their 10th anniversary and we have been part of the lily family since 2011 at the beginning of lilys diagnosis

when we first heard Lily had Mitochondrial disease we didn't know anyone else and had never heasrd of this disease. we soon found that many children have far too short lives, at 2.5 yrs old we only had the internet to go by and 5 seemed a bench mark life expectancy at that point. This was totally devastating that I had stumbled across this on a google search but then the hope arrived and I also came across the lily foundation.

I got round the 26.2 miles of the London marathon course just after id turned 30 in april 2012 and once those running shoes came off they didn't go back on! we then had willow and she became the excuse of not being able to get out. Ive started 2017 healthier and excercising and felt 5yrs (omg I really don't know where that time went) the shoes are coming back out and I'm running the 6 miles to complete vitality 10,000

The Lily Foundation are hoping to get a big team together and if we find it hard to meet at the start we will definitely be together at the end remembering all the Angels and the warriors and us brought together to run for a cure

Michelle