Never mind cars @Abercol your wife is truly amazing. You must be very proud of her. What an incredible woman.
Yup, very proud. She’s blind and running the marathon in support of Guide Dogs. Her personal trainer was roped in to be her guide runner – he got no warning, poor soul. She applied to guide dogs as a charity runner for 2026, thinking there’s no way she’d get in as people wait years for a place, only for them to accept her the next day. At that point (September 2025) she’d not run at all. Now her long training runs are 2-2.5 hours, 9-12 miles. She’s booked in to run a couple of half marathons in Feb & March before the main event in April.
I’ve already been told that after the marathon she will switch to long distance open water swimming…and has already signed up for the triple loch quest with Go Swim with 750m as a starter over summer…sheesh.
In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.