Ashley's London Marathon 2025 diary

Watch Ashley's London Marathon 2025 diaries

Meet Ashley, one of our 2025 London Marathon runners!

Ashley has chosen to run for Kidney Care UK after seeing first-hand how the charity has helped his mother-in-law. When he met his wife, Ellie, eight years ago, his now mother-in-law was living with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Receiving the call to say that a kidney donor had been found for her changed her life, and the lives of the whole family.

Seeing her get better every single day is a massive motivation for me to try and raise some money for your amazing charity. Hopefully me doing this will help support another family as they go through what we as a family have experienced post-transplant.
Ashley, talking about his mother-in-law

Ashley has never really run before and has a history of pranking his family and friends, so when he hold his family he had a Marathon place, they thought it was another of his jokes!

Watch Ashley as he trains for the London Marathon 2025, from 10Ks to half-marathons, all the way to the start line in April 2025.

Watch Ashley's diaries:

  • Part 1: Meet Ashley

  • Part 2: 'Finding out I got the place'

  • Part 3: 'Preparing to start training'