Well here I go again. After last year's 100k adventure, when Coppafeel! announced a one-day alumni trek right on my doorstep, I couldn’t really say no. So on 17th May me and a group of my Brecon buddies will join many others to walk a marathon in the South Downs. And this year’s ask is a special one because Beth is also brilliantly running her first marathon in Brighton on 6th April. She’ll be a lot quicker than me, her heart and pounding feet will be working a lot harder than mine and she has been training HARD - she's doing a Hyrox competition two weeks before the marathon. She also wants to support Coppafeel! and all her work deserves a lot of motivating and celebrating.

This year will mark my five year anniversary of living with Stage IV incurable breast cancer that has spread to my spine and ribs. To be reaching five years (the average life expectancy is three to five) and still to be on my first line of treatment - I can’t quite believe it. And walking a long way feels the best way to celebrate that my body continues to be able to do so. As always, thank you science. (Please support governments that support scientific research.)

We'll both be spending the next weeks and months training - me on the Downs with my trusty boots, walking poles, blister tape and Compeed, and Beth tearing up the streets and gyms of East London.

You were SO generous for my last walk and we’re not asking for the same amount this time. We have a lower target and while my body holds up I’m hoping to carry on walking and raising money for cancer charities while I can, so it’s likely I’ll ask again at some point. But we would be incredibly grateful if you could support us in our double marathon challenge for Coppafeel! by sending a fiver or a tenner our way. (Also you haven’t sponsored Beth yet, so ya know … GO FOR IT.) You’ll not only be helping push us on, but you’ll also be saving lives by supporting Coppafeel!'s mission to stamp out the devastating late diagnosis of breast cancer in young people by making sure that they are regularly checking their boobs, pecs and chests and getting to know their bodies in order to have the confidence to see their GP if something just doesn't feel normal.

Thanks so much for your donation & support. To find out more about CoppaFeel! head to www.coppafeel.org.