Click the link below to watch the video explaining why we're doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACwcBuD9LAo&feature=youtu.be

**UPDATE** 

Due to the 2020 cancellation I have moved my entry to next year, 11th April 2021!

In 2018 I did A Coventry Way Challenge. I walked 40 miles and I didn't do any training for it. It was awful and it took forever. Especially when my dad, 49 at the time, appeared to breeze it. It took 12 hours and 47 minutes and there was no way I was doing it again.

Then at the end of October 2018, my dad asked me if I'd do it again. I felt as though I had something to prove to myself and decided to take him up on the offer. We were training incredibly hard and had decided we would aim for completing it in 10 hours or less. Everything was looking good after the first few months and we were on for that time. 

Then, at the end of January, my Gran had a stroke. Of course, our priorities changed and rightly so, the training slowed down and I would fit in a run as and when I could. After about six weeks of my gran being in the hospital, we had decided that one Sunday we would go out for a longer run and kickstart the level of training we knew we needed to reach our 10 hours or less goal. But then the day before, my dad had a motorbike accident and training was fully out of the window. 

About six weeks later we completed the Coventry Way for 2019 and it took us 11 hours 16 minutes. It wasn't the target we had set, but it was still a good improvement on the previous year. 

So this year, we are doing it again, in memory of my gran and we are doing it for the charity SameYou.

SameYou works to increase the provision of immediate rehabilitation for young adults after leaving hospital and to facilitate innovations in specialist nurse training, fund clinical research and develop evidence for policy change.Our long-term vision is to work with neurorehabilitation leaders to develop a blueprint for a new type of neuro-recovery centre helping people find their way to recovery through emotional and practical support.

Now I know SameYou is working to increase the rehabilitation of young adults and my Gran didn't fall into that age group, but the point is, it's all relative. And one thing I know after reading up on the subjects of strokes and brain injuries is that it can happen to anybody at any age. 

And if I can run 40 miles and raise some money to help rebuild the lives of people that have been, are in and one day will be in the same position my gran was in, then it's worth it. All of the pain endured in the run will be nothing compared to the pain she and so many others went through.