I am Maddy, a medical student at Bristol University. I am running the London Marathon for Healthy Minds.

I have been so lucky this year to see the incredible work of the Healthy Minds programme supporting student wellbeing through sports and exercise. This year has been more challenging than most for so many of us and for me it has directly illustrated the importance of programmes like health minds and their huge potential for positive change in our community.

I am not going to pretend to be a fantastic runner quite yet, I know that the next few months are going to involve a lot of hard work both mentally and physically, but I am so looking forward to many more muddy and hilly adventures round this beautiful city and if I can do them whilst also supporting a program that I believe is important to bettering life in Bristol, than I can truly think of no better use of my time.