{"id":3457,"date":"2017-08-17T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=3457"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:15:14","slug":"runner-feature-margaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/runner-feature-margaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Feature – Margaret Pritchard Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Name<\/strong>: Margaret Pritchard Houston<\/p>\n Age:<\/strong> 35<\/p>\n Location<\/strong>: North London<\/p>\n Favourite distance<\/strong>: I’ve only done 5K so far – hopefully 10K soon!<\/p>\n Favourite running shoe and clothing brand<\/strong>: Asics make good shoes for people who over-pronate, like I do, and Under Armour has great stuff. But I also love good old M&S for basic stuff if you’re just getting started and want to kit yourself out on a budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Margarets Story…<\/strong><\/p>\n After 3 IVF treatments<\/strong>, and losing my son Isaac at birth on 31st July 2015, I hated my body<\/em>. It hadn’t done what it was supposed to, it hadn’t kept my child safe. I had spent years on hormone treatments, jabbing myself with needles, recovering from a hospital stay and an emergency caesarean – and then comfort-eating my way through grief.<\/p>\n Then I got a new job<\/strong>, which required a lot of walking. And I got back to my beloved hobby of amateur dramatics. Which meant I started using my body for moving, expressing emotion onstage, and for making art. Then, I saw a Facebook post from a friend of mine in a bereaved parent support group and someone they knew was running the London marathon in aid of SANDS<\/strong><\/a> (the stillbirth and neonatal death charity).<\/p>\n [toggle title=”More about SANDS…” state=”open”]Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. Which operates throughout the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive, and promoting research to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.<\/p>\n Sands was founded by bereaved parents in 1978 who found that there was no access to support following the deaths of their babies. Since then Sands has grown, but parents who have experienced baby death remain at the core of everything they do.<\/p>\n The Sands Helpline works together with our local volunteer Groups and befrienders to ensure that anyone affected by the death of a baby has access to compassionate, experienced support.<\/p>\n