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I am 55 and my Daughter Ellie Rogers is 27. Neither of us had much motivation to get fitter and were both overweight. I live in Wombourne and Ellie has recently moved to Penn Wolverhampton, (a few doors down from my parents old house).<\/p>\n
During lockdown I dropped on a “tweet” from Compton Care<\/strong>. A hospice in Wolverhampton that is very well loved and they looked after both of my parents (Ellie’s Grandparents) towards the end of their lives.<\/p>\n The call to action was to sign up and run a 5k Tough Mudder<\/strong> in the Midlands and raise the much-needed funds during lockdown. To be honest, neither of us could run to catch a bus let alone a 5k!! We looked at each other and given we had some time as well as Ellie’s school being closed, we thought we just couldn’t say no.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We signed up to C25k and found some very old trainers and off we plodded around the garden for 5 weeks (3 sessions a week) until we felt brave enough to leave the front door!<\/p>\n We really struggled to start with and could only manage a few minutes of running but eventually, we completed the 5k after all of those 5.00am starts – nine weeks later. We were elated and just couldn’t believe it!! Sadly due to the ongoing pandemic the Tough Mudder<\/strong> was cancelled, so we built our own mini assault course and ran 11k on the very same day, raising nearly £1800<\/strong> for Compton Care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I also became a Trustee of Compton Care<\/strong> during the pandemic so the link to the charity is very personal to me, helping people just like my mom and dad in the future 🙏<\/p>\n We continued to train in the winter months and the “running bug” had well and truly bitten us both. Early in 2021 Compton Care<\/strong> had 2 gold bond spaces available for the London Marathon<\/strong> and we thought…..why not<\/em>? 🙃<\/p>\n I cheekily reached out to an ultra marathon runner called Nick Butter<\/strong> (the only person to run a marathon across all the 196<\/strong> countries in the world) and he agreed to coach us over 3 months to get to the marathon distance. It was super tough, but we learned a lot about running\/nutrition\/running kit and training planners… 365 days later we completed our first training marathon!<\/p>\n Then, in October 2021 we completed the London Marathon<\/strong> and raised over 7k<\/strong> for Compton Care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At this point we thought that was it….but we just couldn’t resit another visit to London !!! So we have signed up for London 23 (for the last time.)<\/p>\n We have run a number of events over the last 18 months including Solihull half, Prestwold half, Wolves 10k, Stafford half, Wolverhampton half, Hanley half, Long Mynd Half<\/strong> and most recently, the virtual London Marathon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n We have set ourselves a year long challenge called 12 Million steps<\/strong><\/span> which finishes at the London Marathon 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Wolves 10k<\/strong> will be part of the 12 million steps<\/strong> challenge and with the help of 12 runners, 9 of us are all marathon runners from the class of LM 2021 supporting Compton Care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n My son will also be running a 10k race for the first time with us on the day also, so it should be a special day.<\/p>\n Finally, we are hopeful the local Express<\/strong> and Star<\/strong> newspaper will get involved nearer the time and we also have a radio interview planned in a couple of weeks with BBC WM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am 55 and my Daughter Ellie Rogers is 27. Neither of us had much motivation to get fitter and were both overweight. I live in Wombourne and Ellie has recently moved to Penn Wolverhampton, (a few doors down from my parents old house). During lockdown I dropped on a “tweet” from Compton Care. 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