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Glenn’s Marathon Training: Overcoming Setbacks with Smart Recovery!

February 06 , 2025
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Glenn's Training Update: Week 5 Training for a marathon comes with challenges, and unfortunately, Glenn faced a setback last weekend when a hamstring injury forced him to cut his planned 14K run short. Rather than pushing through, he took the time to carefully assess his injury, listen to ...

Glenn’s Training Update: Smashing the 10K and Pushing Forward!

January 30 , 2025
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Glenn's Training Update: Week 4 On Sunday, 26th January, Glenn took on the North London Hospice – Race the Neighbours 10K, finishing in an impressive 54 minutes and 26 seconds! Cheered on by family at the finish line, Glenn described the incredible feeling of a "runner’s high" after ...

My Parkrun Progress: A Journey Towards the Brighton Marathon

January 19 , 2025
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In this second blog post, we catch up with Glenn's training progress. Glenn has been working hard to prepare for the Brighton Marathon, starting with two Parkruns this month. He says: "My first Parkrun on 4th January took me 26 minutes and 38 seconds, and I placed 94th out ...

Glenn’s Training Update: Race the Neighbours 10k!

January 23 , 2025
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Glenn's Marathon Journey: Week 3 Update As Glenn continues his inspiring journey towards the Brighton Marathon, he shares the latest on his training: "This week's training has been going well. On Saturday 18th January, I ran a 5k, and my time was 23 minutes and 22 seconds 🙂. I ...

Glenn’s Marathon Mission: Raising Awareness for Chronic Pain

January 16 , 2025
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Hey, I’m Glenn, a volunteer for Pain Concern and someone living with chronic pain. On the 6th April I will be running the Brighton Marathon as part of my fundraising role for the charity! My mission is to raise awareness and funds to support others facing this challenging, ...

18 Creative and Crafty Activities

December 18 , 2024
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It’s always good to look back at previous editions of Pain Matters and it’s from issue 38 that I take great delight in sharing some words for wisdom from Dennis Turk and Frits Winter, “Pain needs competition”— social contact, creativity and fun all help us to put ...

Christmas anecdotes

December 18 , 2024
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Andy is a writer. Negotiating life with pain and fatigue has meant discovering new ways to celebrate Christmas. In this series of anecdotes, Andy shares how difficult yet joyous that journey can be. 1. “The Christmas Light Dilemma” Every year, the twinkle of Christmas lights feels like a promise ...

Introducing Andy

December 11 , 2024
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Over the next few weeks you’ll hear from Andy Jeffrey, one of our volunteers. Andy’s almost 40 and lives in Edinburgh. Through his writing, he hopes to help others by sharing how he has rebuilt his life following a diagnosis of a chronic pain condition. By way ...

“You’re never alone”

December 10 , 2024
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Beth Evans in conversation with Jason Wilsher-Mills  Jason Wilsher-Mills is an artist from Wakefield. His exhibition ‘Jason and the adventure of 254’ is being shown at the Wellcome Collection until 12 January 2025. At the age of eleven, Jason was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that paralysed him ...

7 observations from a novice marathon runner

October 03 , 2023
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On October 15 Cameron Mckechnie completed the Amsterdam Marathon in aid of Pain Concern - we caught up with him to find out about his endeavour before the run. 1. What inspired you to participate in this fundraising marathon (and have you done anything like this before?)? I ...

From persistent pain to passion project

August 22 , 2023
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Read about Lindsay McLean's experience of a pain management programme from the perspective of a patient, and how it affected her life.

Triathlon challenge

May 25 , 2023
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Dr Mick Serpell, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine for Greater Glasgow & Clyde NHS Let me explain, I work with patients who have chronic pain. My journey as a novice in the triathlon world required me to make changes in my beliefs and behaviours. Changes very similar ...