A woman is running 126 miles to honor a friend who died from breast cancer. She plans to run the London Marathon then another 100 miles home.
Jane Shorting is running for a good cause. She will run from London to Gloucestershire to honor her late friend Leigh Lawson. Lawson died last year after a battle with breast cancer. Shorting promised her friend before her death that she would run 126 miles in her honor.
Shorting will run from the marathon to the hospice where her friend died.
"She would think it was absolutely amazing," Shorting told People. "She was brilliant, and this is all for her."
"Running the London Marathon itself will be emotional - London is like nothing else," she contiued. "People shout your name, you get selfies with kids, and when you turn the corner at Big Ben there is no feeling like it as you start the run down towards the Mall with the crowds screaming. But this year will be different. I will be thinking about Leigh the whole way."
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"Our girls became best friends at school and from that moment on we were solid friends," Shorting said. "Leigh made everyone feel welcome. Her door was always open to everyone. She was kind, funny, sharp?'tongued in the best way, and she had this incredible ability to sort people out and lift them up. She was a force of nature — a one?'off."
"Jane will run around 34 miles a day from London back to Cheltenham, with Mark and friends joining her for parts of the route," per the release. "The final stretch up the hospice drive is expected to be an emotional moment, with local schools and community members planning to join her, including Leigh's daughters."
