Philippa’s European challenge

Thank you for visiting my page. I'm raising money for the British Heart Foundation and I'd be so grateful for your support.

As most of you may know, I love to set myself a challenge - so this next one, we’re going European style! The Lisbon half marathon is my first half marathon as part of the SuperHalfs Series which I hope to complete - 6 half marathons across 6 different cities (Lisbon, Prague, Berlin, Copenhagen, Cardiff and Valencia) a challenge of all challenges!

As a person who 18 months ago was a person who really did hate running…not running more than 5K, I’ve since ran the London Marathon and other half marathons within the UK. This will definitely be another hard challenge for me but hopefully it’ll all be worthwhile being able to raise much needed funds for this amazing charity.

Reasoning behind yet another moment of madness?! As many of you will know I suddenly lost my Dad 13 years ago from a cardiac arrest. Ever since, British Heart Foundation has been a charity close to my heart. CPR is so important and also the work and research that BHF do is amazing and can really help save lives. I’m pretty sure Dad would call me quite a few names if he was still around and doing this, but hopefully be even prouder of the achievement.

The BHF has helped halve the number of people dying from heart and circulatory disease in the UK but sadly every day hundreds of people lose their lives. It's only thanks to support from people like us that the BHF can create new treatments and discover new cures. £24 could pay for two hours of research by an early career scientist, but every pound helps so please give whatever you can. It really is much appreciated and will help me through this crazy challenge I’m about to do!

Do you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of British Heart Foundation and every donation will help. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to me.

More information about British Heart Foundation: We're the nation's heart charity. We help save lives with information, patient care and pioneering research. With your support, we're beating heart disease for good.

Thank you x