{"id":8014,"date":"2023-06-02T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T11:20:53","slug":"runner-feature-rob-thewlis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/runner-feature-rob-thewlis\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner Feature – Rob Thewlis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
March 21st 2016<\/strong> started as any day would. I got up, I showered. Had my breakfast and got dressed, ready for work. About 7am, I left telling my mum I loved her and I would see her when I finished work.<\/p>\n The day passed. At 7.45pm, my phone rang and then rang again. And again. It was my mum. I answered. “Rob, it’s Pat. Your mum has had an accident!” … I raced home and my mum was being put in an ambulance! My world was starting to crumble around me. Transfer from hospital to hospital and on 3rd April she was transferred to Kirkwood Hospice<\/strong> in Huddersfield.<\/p>\n She passed away 7 days later.<\/p>\n This was the kick that I needed. A lightbulb moment. I hired a personal trainer and lost 7 stone in 7 months. I took up running in early 2017. I’d always sat at home watching the London marathon (normally with a tub of pringles in my hand! No joke 🤣) dreaming that one day that would be me. But I didn’t know how.<\/p>\n I started running at parkrun in early February 2017. My first ParkRun<\/strong> was 28.08! I’d never ran before in my life. I decided that I wanted to run a half marathon before I turned 27. I did it the day before in Warrington. Then I knew it was time to reach for the Marathon goal.<\/p>\n In 2018, I went for it in Liverpool however I was injured at mile 13. I remember sitting at the edge of the road and crying as the sweeper bus comes by. The marathon journey ended. But not for long…<\/p>\n