Adey’s London Marathon Attempt - in 46 days

My name is Adey Saunderson, I am a physiotherapist in Bath running a private practice called At The Core. On Tuesday 17th of August 2021 I was asked by my business partner Paul Tisdale if I would run the London Marathon for The Lord’s Taverners charity. Someone had dropped out, I think due to injury, and he’d been asked but he was not able to. I had already planned to run a Half Marathon event on Sunday the 5th of September, and felt it would be a huge honour and opportunity to take part in such an awesome event for a brilliant cause.

My professional background is generally in sport dealing with musculoskeletal injuries and injury reduction, but my physical training background is mostly in contact sports or the gym. However, in January of 2021 I took part in a running challenge fro War Child UK charity where I ran & walked 400km in January. Completing, for the first time in my life a number of half marathons.

Since this event i have continued to keep some middle distance running up, and with the training for my September half marathon beginning the same week, I thought that continuing on to do a full marathon would be a huge challenge.