XVI | Chasing Glory
Yesterday I completed the 2024 Brighton Marathon. Emotions are still all over the show, in a good way. I've always wanted to run a marathon ever since both my parents ran the Auckland Marathon on separate occasions when I was a teenager, but I never thought I would actually do it. Last November I spontaneously decided that it was time to register for a marathon, and raise money towards mental health support. Knowing the amount of people who've been given suffering and trauma that they've never asked for or deserved, I realised that I had to do something - even if it doesn't help those in my mind directly. I originally applied for the London Marathon, but I was unsurprisingly too late to register and didn't want to wait until 2025. Thus, I looked about for an alternative and managed to secure a charity spot and registered for the Brighton Marathon set on April 7th 2024. Although I registered in November, I wasn't serious about training until January. I didn...