28/02/2021
I am Juliet, and that handsome man in the photo is my husband. I was born with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a heredity lung disease. CF primarily affects the lungs by making them susceptible to chronic infections and progressive lung damage.
I started running on and off at uni to combat my declining lung function and somewhere along the way, I became a runner. In 2017 having only run 10k once ever, I blindly entered the 2018 London Marathon Ballot. Six months later, after a brutal summer of hospital admissions and in the worst shape I'd ever been, I found out I’d gotten a spot.
Yub hated running. He'd come with me on my slow 5ks if I asked but it wasn't for him - he was a cyclist. But he always has my back so he managed to secure a marathon spot too. Together, on 22nd April 2018, three months before our wedding, we ran 26.2 miles together for the first time through the cheering streets of London. And it changed my husband from a cyclist who cringed at parkrun to a man who has now convinced us to attempt our first ultra-marathon.
What can I say? Running changes you.
We want to see how far we can push our bodies, how far we can push ourselves (how far we can push our marriage?) and how much money we can raise for The CF Trust and Royal Brompton Hospital: two amazing organisations that support so many families, like ours, through the rollercoaster of life with a chronic health condition.
I started running on and off at uni to combat my declining lung function and somewhere along the way, I became a runner. In 2017 having only run 10k once ever, I blindly entered the 2018 London Marathon Ballot. Six months later, after a brutal summer of hospital admissions and in the worst shape I'd ever been, I found out I’d gotten a spot.
Yub hated running. He'd come with me on my slow 5ks if I asked but it wasn't for him - he was a cyclist. But he always has my back so he managed to secure a marathon spot too. Together, on 22nd April 2018, three months before our wedding, we ran 26.2 miles together for the first time through the cheering streets of London. And it changed my husband from a cyclist who cringed at parkrun to a man who has now convinced us to attempt our first ultra-marathon.
What can I say? Running changes you.
We want to see how far we can push our bodies, how far we can push ourselves (how far we can push our marriage?) and how much money we can raise for The CF Trust and Royal Brompton Hospital: two amazing organisations that support so many families, like ours, through the rollercoaster of life with a chronic health condition.