Tina's London Marathon 2023 page
Tina Starling is raising money for University College London Hospitals Charity UK
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I was lucky enough (was it lucky?) to get a ballot place in the London Marathon, therefore didn't have to raise large amounts of sponsorship money for my place.
With only 10 days until 'run day' and (coughing for the last 2 weeks, so no training) I thought I'd try and raise some funds for Haematology Cancer Care, the blood cancer charity at ULCH, the hospital that saved my sister Kay's life, and forever a real inspiration to me.
HCC provides wide-ranging support including high-tech medical equipment and research projects, free complementary therapy for patients and families and specialist education for nurses across five inpatient wards, day-care, ambulatory care and young adult and outpatient services. They deserve a few £'s.
The challenge of training for 26.2 miles during a long cold and wet winter, and the chant of 'no I can't go out on my bike I've got a long run Sunday', will soon be over but with the support of my coach Sam, and my wonderful friends and family, I think I'm ready to achieve yet another goal in what is my 60th year.
So if you can spare a few quid that would be lovely, and If you want to following me on the day I'll be posting my race number in due course.