On the weekend of 18th/19th June, I’ll be taking on the longest ultramarathon challenge I’ve ever attempted - Endure24, the UK’s biggest 24-hour race (tagline: Epic, Brutal, Relentless!). Most run this Berkshire event as a relay in teams, but there’s a smaller group who run it solo, and yes, I’m one of those! The idea is to run as many laps of the (hilly, off-road) 5 mile/8km course as you can in the 24 hours from midday Saturday to midday Sunday. 

I have no idea how many miles I’ll be able to do - all I know is that I will attempt to keep running for the full 24 hours. I’m doing it to raise money for the Gloucestershire branch of Headway UK, the brain injury charity, in memory of my sister Deborah who died from a brain injury in 2010 when she was just 39. 

I’m hoping to raise a total of £240 - that’s £10 for each hour I’ll be out there running. And yes, I’m quite scared - I do tend to be accident-prone so please wish me luck! Let’s do this! 

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