Our challenge

Getting your life back after a stroke is a little like doing a marathon, except it’s about a million times harder. You’ve chosen to run the marathon. You love the sense of achievement, of overcoming the barriers. Stroke patients do not have the luxury of choice. For many of them, if they ever can walk or talk again, they have to endure years of painful and frustrating rehabilitation.

We are still studying the causes of stroke, but what we do know is that for many people the risk level decreases with exercise, healthy eating and regular blood pressure checks. So, by training for the Flora London Marathon, you’re already helping us, by reducing the risk of stroke. And if you join our Stroke Runners Team, you’ll also be helping the quarter of a million people in the UK who are living with long-term disability as a result of stroke.