Simply Woman & Home

‘I could barely walk – today I’m smashing HALF MARATHONS’

That feeling after crossing the finishing line at my first half marathon was indescribable. I was amazed at what my body had achieved. Just years earlier, I’d been in and out of hospital, living off painkillers and using a walking stick. But getting fit turned my life around.

I was 11 years old when my life changed. Crossing a road on my way home from church, I was knocked over by a car and suffered a severe fracture to my femur. The broken bones slid on top of one another and

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