My Story

On the 16th September, I plan to run 100 Miles/160km from Hunstanton in Norfolk, all the way along the East Anglian coastline to Southwold in Suffolk. 

This is not a race - it's a self planned, semi self supported event, aided by only my partner and my best friend, who will be meeting me at various checkpoints along the way.

Charlie is actually my cousin, and whilst many people might perceive these kinds of incidents to be few and far between, suicide is actually the biggest killer of men under 50, and this silent epidemic is a reality for so many people, their friends and their families. 

My own personal experience of mental health issues were at their peak when I was in my last year at University. I struggled to talk to anyone about it because I felt like it wasn't something that anyone would take particularly seriously, and I was too ashamed to do so.

Now that I'm older and wiser ;-) I feel like it is so important for us "older" people to help break the stigma around talking about mental health for the sake of our younger people who are suffering silently. 

This is the what the Charlie Watkins Foundation has set out to do, and why I raise money for them.