The London Marathon will take place on Sunday 21 April, with the streets of London to be filled with cheers and support for 50,000 runners. Each will have trained tirelessly to get to the start line of The TCS London Marathon and to experience the electric atmosphere.
Among them will be our team of The EPT runners, each of whom has their own reasons for committing the past several months to training for this iconic event. We are so grateful for their dedication and support and would like to remind them that as they tie their laces and attach their bib numbers, they are not alone. The entire EPT community will be cheering them every step of the way to the finish line.
Coverage of the London Marathon will be broadcast live on BBC One from 8.30am – 2.15pm (UK time), 2.15 – 3pm on BBC Two, on iPlayer and online. Updates of team EPT’s progress will be shared throughout the day on our Instagram and Facebook stories.
The 2025 London Marathon ballot opens on Saturday 20 April and closes on Friday 26 April. You can find out more about how to enter here.
Meet the team
Meet our team for The TCS London Marathon 2024 and find out how you can follow their epic journeys on Sunday 21 April!
Kathryn (Kat)
When Kat got a coveted ballot place in the London marathon, she generously reached out to support The EPT and raise awareness of ectopic pregnancy. We are so proud and grateful to have Kat on our marathon team.
Kat say’s: I am taking part in this year’s London marathon as I was fortunate to secure a place via the ballot and my intention has always been to run it in aid of The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust. The EPT has provided both emotional support and scientifically rigorous information that was unfortunately very much lacking when I was discharged from hospital in November 2015. I had experienced a very late cornual ectopic collapse in which we lost our very much loved and long-awaited baby and where I was left fighting for my life due to catastrophic internal bleeding. I still have no words that can articulate the grief and devastation that rippled from this trauma for several subsequent years. I lost both our baby and my fertility and so have not experienced the joy of longer-term motherhood, just those wonderful first expectant weeks. I continue to find solace in running and have been able to arrive at the point where I can sit comfortably with the grief because this equates to the enormous love felt for our baby. I no longer allow my grief to define me or sap me of my love and zest for life and I hope that others may find some comfort from our experience. The love and support of my wonderful and patient husband as well as the superb EPT has had an integral role to play in me now being at peace with what happened, if I were to have the opportunity to carry the baby again knowing what would happen, I would indeed chose again to know this unique love. I will be wearing my EPT vest with pride once more and will, I am certain, get at least one person discussing ectopic pregnancy whilst running those epic 26.2 miles, which can only be positive. Best wishes to every other runner taking part, we’ve got this!
If you would like to read more about Kat’s marathon journey, you can on her fundraising page.
Andrew
Andrew will be taking on the London Marathon for The EPT for a second time this year, after first running in 2017. With the same goal of raising awareness and the added target of beating his 2017 time, we are so grateful for Andrew’s ongoing support of the charity.
Andrew say’s: I am running the London Marathon for The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust as they were a great support to my wife when she suffered an ectopic pregnancy in September 2016, with what would have been our first child. We initially went to hospital four weeks prior to my wife being told she had an ectopic pregnancy as she was in a lot of pain. Once at hospital we were told that my wife was pregnant. This was actually the start of the ectopic pregnancy, which was missed at the time. Four weeks later, my wife was in a lot of pain again and she decided to go back to hospital. Once at hospital they examined her and was soon rushed down to theatre due to the fact my wife was bleeding internally and whilst in theatre ended up losing her right Fallopian tube.
This put a lot of doubts in my wife’s mind, that she would never have kids. She got in touch with The EPT who put her in contact with someone who had suffered an ectopic pregnancy, and this gave my wife hope after hearing another persons story and hearing their kids in the back ground. Since then, we have been lucky enough to go on and have three beautiful children, one born recently on the 14th March 2024.
I am running for the charity again because it is still very close to my heart, and I want to raise awareness of something that not many know about. I have run the London Marathon before in 2017; it was for this great charity and I achieved a time of 4 hours, 22 minutes. I would love to beat this time next year (at least by a minute) and hopefully not suffer an injury or lose my big toe nail, like last time.
If you would like to read more about Andrew’s marathon journey, you can on his fundraising page.
Lucy
Lucy has devastatingly suffered the trauma of two ectopic pregnancies and will be lacing up her trainers on Sunday 21 April to help raise vital awareness. We are immensely grateful to Lucy for her dedication and generosity in joining our marathon team.
Lucy say’s: After having a straightforward pregnancy with my son, Harrison, in 2017, I had two ectopic pregnancies, one in 2019 and one in 2020. Both were emotionally and physically draining, the second more so as the world was just going into lockdown as I was recovering in hospital following an operation to remove a Fallopian tube. Approaching 40 and now with only one tube left, I started to make peace with the fact that Harrison would be our only child, but by some miracle I was pregnant again within two months, and our rainbow baby Isabella was born in early 2021. I didn’t know much about ectopic pregnancies until it happened to me, but since talking about it I’ve found out that several of my friends have had them. The work of The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust is vital to those who need support, and knowing that I am raising money for them will help get me round the fantastic London Marathon route! I can’t wait!
If you would like to read more about Lucy’s marathon journey, you can on her fundraising page.
Raymond
After Raymond and his wife went through the trauma of an ectopic pregnancy, Raymond has become passionate about raising awareness of ectopic pregnancy and the charity, and found a new love of running. We are so proud to have Raymond join team EPT on his first marathon in the epic Abbott World Marathon Majors.
Raymond say’s: London will be my fifth marathon and my first Abbott World Marathon Major. I started running seriously in 2021 after being an unhealthy and overweight lawyer and since then running and triathlons have taken a life of their own in my world. I envisioned a goal of completing all six World Majors in two years – I will be running the Berlin and Chicago marathons later this year and hopefully Tokyo, Boston and NYC in 2025. I really wanted London to be my first and I really wanted to be on Team EPT.
In 2018, our lives were turned upside down when my wife experienced a life threatening ectopic pregnancy. It was made worse since it was after years of infertility and IVF treatments. During that challenging time, we felt overwhelmed, frightened, and utterly lost. We had never heard of The EPT and were unaware of the support and resources available to couples facing this ordeal. It was a painful and lonely journey, and we wished we had known about this incredible organisation that could have provided the guidance and comfort we so desperately needed. I want to ensure that every person, regardless of their background or circumstances, has access to vital information about the signs and symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy. My training has not been to its usual form since a right foot injury I suffered during the Dubai Marathon in January – I feel a lot better now and have started to get my miles in. No matter what I will be crossing that finish line in the name of all the amazing people behind The EPT and the brave women that have suffered through ectopic pregnancies, especially my darling wife.
If you would like to read more about Raymond’s marathon journey, you can on his fundraising page.
Annabel
Annabel has faced many struggles on her way to expanding her family, and hopes to raise awareness of the fact that not every journey looks the same. Just eight months after welcoming her baby into the world, we are so proud that Annabel will be taking to the streets of London for The EPT.
Annabel say’s: Our journey to becoming parents wasn’t straightforward, and included many painful hurdles. In August 2022, we returned from our honeymoon excited, but nervous, to go to our first pregnancy scan for the miracle baby we conceived naturally. After years of unexplained infertility and two miscarriages, we knew first hand that these scans can not always go the way we hope, but even we were shocked when we found that our pregnancy was ectopic. I was rushed to the Accident and Emergency department (A&E) and into surgery, and on the 12th August 2022 I had my left Fallopian tube removed along with our baby.
One thing that has remained very important to me throughout is to continue building awareness surrounding the struggles many of us face, and to break the taboo around infertility and loss.
This is why I have chosen to run the London marathon for The Ectopic Pregnancy Trust, just eight months after welcoming our miracle baby boy via IVF. Born on 13th August 2023, almost exactly a year to the date later.
Our journey required a lot of strength and determination and it’s this I will be leaning on to make the finish line.
If you would like to read more about Annabel’s marathon journey, you can on her fundraising page.
Feeling inspired by our London Marathon 2024 team?
If you would like to join our fundraising team, we have inspiration here. If you are looking for an event closer to your own location, visit our Find a run near you section.
