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So another journey begins!

Anyone who knows me personally, will know that I do not do things in halves.

I am raising for MIND because of my continued journey with mental health, I have laid myself the gauntlet to push myself even further physically and mentally.

So the journey leads me here, but where did it start.

It has been a rocky road mentally , approx 15 years ago I was in a very dark place, wasn’t making anything for myself, hanging around with the wrong people and always making the wrong decisions in my life, I was trying to make something of myself but totally in the wrong way.

One day I had enough of the torment of my demons and my situation, so I only saw one option, I tried taking my own life. 

It was a selfish act which I can not take back but with good people and the care that I received, I triumphed the demons and took my life back!

This did not happen over night, and I felt I was heading back to were I started , but I just kept thinking I was raised better than this and I am only failing myself.

I took each problem that arised and didn’t run away and hide, I thought how can I provide a solution for this and I kept finding solutions, that would help me battle.

I am a believer in the saying "No one’s going to put your trousers on and only YOU can take the first steps and only YOU can make your path for YOUR future".

Fast forward to now I have a beautiful partner and son, our own house and a number of from scratch businesses. 

It hasn’t been easy and still will never be easy but I am ready for the challenges that life throws at me, they are just hurdles in life and you must be prepared to trip and fall but you are also prepared to pick yourself up, dust your self of and jump that hurdle and never look back only forwards! That’s how winning is done.

Always be ready to Chuck yourself in the deep end, you will climb to the top and be stronger for it.

This is for everyone that’s picked themselves up and battled everyday to strive to make a better change for them.

So this leads me back to today as I embark on one of my biggest mental and physically demanding hurdles, I will be at the end of April competing in a Ultra event running around the Isle of Wight with a distance of 106km ....... yes that's two and half marathons back to back.