Jen runs London Marathon 2025

Hi. My name is Jennifer but go by Jenni. In 2025 I'm running the London Marathon after being successful in the ballot. I'm not a fast or speedy runner and have never run a marathon before now but have run the royal parks half twice a few years apart and injured however this is London I don't want to be injured while running this one and I'd like to be finished in less than 7 hours (currently my prediction for me finishing is 6.5hours so fingers crossed) if you make it all the way through the intro give yourself a massive pat on the back as I feel I've rambled on massively

My problem is I have more than 1 charity I'd like to raise money for and the best way for me to have figured out how to do it was to set up a go fund me and then with all of it distribute between them after I've run the marathon...

Firstly breakthroughT1D . Many of you are aware of diabetes and how it effects people and their lives. Growing up with a parent with Type 1 I learned what the signs were of someone with varying sugar levels and how to deal with them. While I was pregnant with Oskar we discovered I had Gestational Diabetes (thanks for that). I'm not going to pretend I now exactly what they do as a charity but I will be donating to them. A few work colleagues and friends also have the condition so to raise some funds to go towards this would be amazing.

DARF - Dark age relief fund - As viking reenactors you'll know who and what this one is. -During lockdown of 2020 we were gifted through DARF a lovely gift after the boys water/sand tray was destroyed (cheers neighbors) and they helo many others, I've been trying to think of a way to raise some funds for them and what better way than a marathon right? They are also just awesome people. They've got spies all around. Whenever they've spotted someone needs a bit of a pick me up as if by magic something appears.

I'll actually add a bit more below. .

DARF (Dark Age Relief Fund) is the Vikings’ unofficial self-support group. We know life has many ups and downs , and we are there to give good wishes, cards, presents and other support/funding, and the knowledge that we in the Vike family care about every one of our members. We can’t pay off debts, pay bills or rent, fix your car, or magic away life’s stresses. But we CAN help to support your Vike friends by showing we all care when times are rough.

Thank you all for getting this far. If I can I'll post updates in here. But @jendoesarunningthing on Instagram is where most of my updates on how I'm getting on with runs and training will be. .