My name is Lynette and next year I’ll be running the Great North Run — not just for the challenge, but for someone incredibly important to me: my mum.

I’m running the Great North Run to raise money for FMA UK, a charity supporting people living with fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is often invisible but life-changing. It causes chronic pain, exhaustion, and cognitive difficulties, and yet many people don’t fully understand what those living with it experience.

My mum has lived with fibromyalgia for 10 years. But before it took hold, she was always active, always busy, always doing things for others. She was the person who would drop everything to help someone else, the one who kept the family going.

But fibromyalgia changed her world.

Some days, even the simplest tasks — getting dressed, standing up, walking across a room — come with pain so deep and exhausting that it’s hard to describe. On the outside she looks the same; on the inside she fights a battle every single day with chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog, and the emotional toll of a condition that many still don’t truly understand. And yet she keeps going.

Her strength inspires me, and this run is my way of honouring her and raising awareness for a condition that deserves more support.

Every donation, no matter the size, will help provide research, resources, and hope for people with fibromyalgia and their families.

Thank you for supporting this cause💜 For my mum. For everyone with fibromyalgia. For a future with understanding and better treatment.