TOFS London Marathon 2025

Story


I'm running the London Marathon for TOFS, the charity that supports those born unable to swallow.

In 2019 our son George was born and it became quickly apparent that he was very poorly. George was born choking and with his oesophagus not being connected between his throat and stomach it meant he needed 7 hour surgery at 1 day old at Princess Annes Hospital in Southampton. 

The AMAZING team between Princess Annes, Southampton University Hospital and Winchester Hospital have looked after George for the last 5 years (and our family in support) and as we reflect on the time we spent in hospital, in ambulances and A&E we wanted to raise more money for the organisation that became our support structure from day 1. The charity TOFS.

We'll do our best to update this page with some progressions as we get closer to the big day. Please Dig deep if you can spare any money, it's a charity very dear to us but relatively unknown to most. But every little helps!


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Hi everyone! Starting to ramp up to some long runs now. Getting to the half marathon mark in training and then pushing on towards 3 1/2 hours a coupon of weeks before the marathon.

Where we live there are tonnes of hills and to say ‘undulating’ would be an understatement.

My trainers are holding up well and as long as it’s not wet, my feet are pretty happy :)

Night runs are adventurous, and if I’m honest quite scary! Running through the lanes of Winchester in the pitch black, with owls hooting and foxes making their screeching is a definite reason to run faster!! 🤣

Please keep the donations coming! Long way to go! 

Updated on Sat, February 8 2025, 1:01 PM

And one of him a few months ago :) 

Updated on Wed, July 31 2024, 8:30 PM

I've made no apologies or attempt to hide how this affected our family, and I've personally used friends , Family & colleagues at work to help set the mental demons i'd picked up through the process. I am a huge advocate for Mental health and voicing your thoughts. So thank you to everyone, especially my Wife Emma for sticking with me through the process.


Here is one of the first pictures of George, its tough to look at even now, but without all the people aboves help, he would be the 5 year old amazing Boy he is today!

Updated on Wed, July 31 2024, 8:26 PM

Supporting

TOFS - TOFS (Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula Support)

TOFS offers support to people born with Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula (TOF) and/or Oesophageal Atresia (OA). These are rare congenital malformaltions of the gullet and windpipe. Immediate neonatal surgery is a treatment, not a complete cure. We are UK-based and receive no public-sector support at all.

143%

£3,571.25 raised of £2,500.00 target by 81 supporters

£2,970.00 donated plus £601.25 in GiftAid

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From the 1st June 2024 until the 1st August 2025

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