Welcome to A Marathon a Week.
I’m Daisy and I’m running 42.2km each week leading up to the mighty Sydney Marathon on 17th September 2023.
I’m running to end rare dementia. Every dollar from my fundraising mission will go towards The Australian Frontotemporal Dementia Association, finding a cure for and supporting those living with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which ended my mother’s life in 2020.
She started developing symptoms of dementia in her 50s. She was just 72 when she died. I live at risk of developing the same neurodegenerative disease at about the same age – and I’m 42. Running feels like the least I can do.
I’m fitting my running in around my two young children and work as a freelance journalist. My version of a marathon a week looks something like 10km one day, 28km another and 15km another (I usually end up running close to 50km a week).
My training will mostly take me around Bondi and Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where I live on unceded Gadigal country.
Please sponsor me if you can. Your support means a huge deal to me and I thank you so, so much for every cent donated x
A MARATHON A WEEK 