I started running in 1989 and was very quickly addicted. I would run 10 miles, five or six days a week. Sometimes more. I did that for 25 years, until the kids came along.
I can’t speak highly enough about running when it comes to mental health. When I was admitted to hospital in 2016, a doctor asked my general history. I told him about the running. He said, what you’re doing there is self-medicating. You’ve perhaps always been lower in serotonin than some people and you’re raising it by those mammoth runs. When I was hospitalised, I think not being able to
