Life with Alcohol and Drugs15 Aug 2022

Episode 17 - Fundraising Marathons with Clare and David

Show notes:

We’re joined with Clare Morrison, our Community Fundraiser, and David Wandrum, a supporter of Scottish Families who ran the Loch Ness Marathon last year and raised an incredible £1,156.

David is also married to Lynne, our Senior Family Support Development Officer here at Scottish Families!

David ran the very scenic Loch Ness Marathon in Scotland for us. He was going to be joined by his friend John, but sadly John had an injury and couldn’t go ahead with it!

David is a serving police officer, so he’s spoken to a lot of families who have been supported by Scottish Families. He says he wish he knew about our charity when he was in a role with the police where he was visiting families regularly, saying he would’ve signposted them to us immediately.

For getting started on running a marathon, David says just to go out and run, don’t let anything hold you back. ‘If it’s something you’ve committed to, you just need to timetable it in and make it work.’

He says the worst bit with running a marathon is always the start. The fear that you’re not ready for this, you’ve not trained enough, and things like that. He says you even look at other people and think they’re faster than you, they have better trainers than you, and it’s ridiculous as that. But as soon as you start running, you settle down and it becomes easier.

‘I’m no superman and I’ve got myself to running marathons and further comfortably, and I’m not anything special. So, it is very doable. But it’s hard work as well at the same time – I’m not going to lie to you!’

If you would like to take part in a running challenge for Scottish Families, please get in touch with Clare at clarem@sfad.org.uk and she is more than happy to discuss anything you may be interested in doing!

There are lots of events still happening this year! We have discounted places at the Loch Ness Marathon in Inverness this October, we also have places for the Virtual London Marathon that takes place in October too. And we have the Men’s 10K and Women’s 10K in Edinburgh – in, you guessed it, October!

Transcript of this episode: https://www.sfad.org.uk/life-with-alcohol-and-drugs-podcast

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