She told me why she plans to take part in the championship next year.

I think it's so exciting, the idea that people from all over the world can run 5k on a treadmill and set yourselves a goal to go faster, to look at where you are on the leaderboard.

But is it true that you came last or nearly last in the mile at school? You weren't sort of a natural sportswoman back then.

No, absolutely not.

I labeled myself not a runner for so many years of my life.

Just because of that incident, I wasn't fit.

I didn't engage in sport at all.

And like a lot of people, I only kind of picked up running later in life when I was 26 and only really taking it super seriously after having my three children and then getting my first Best for Great Britain in the 24-hour distance.

Sophie's run more than 30 ultramarathons, and through that she's gotten pretty good at tolerating pain.

So I was doing brilliantly for 138 miles, and my quad suddenly exploded and I had to limp downhill for five hours to finish.

I had the stomach cramps, curled up in a ball by the side of the trail for quite a long time.

So I was hallucinating really badly because I hadn't slept, and there's blood coming b- out the back of my heels, and it was horrible.

One race I did in Cambodia, I was drinking too much water and my brain essentially swelled and I fell into a coma after four days.

Um, was airlifted out, um, and my husband had to take a phone call saying that, you know, there was 50% chance I lived, but if I did then I'd have brain damage.

On day three, she sent us this message.

It's day three.

... you were just gonna do 10K just to be there so you didn't have to defer the place again.

And I'd had such difficult pelvic health problems after my first that I couldn't take a running step for three months.

No one told me what a pelvic floor was before I got pregnant, and I struggled to return.

I, I didn't think it was a possibility.

But we had it in our minds that having this date in the diary would just be a real kind of reference point to, to make sure I stay kind of fit and healthy through pregnancy, to make sure I continue to prioritize my health, my mental health through running as well.

And I realized, you know, six weeks after I had him, actually my pelvic floor's okay.

I can run.

So what does that photo really represent?

And

we uncovered horror stories from across the world.

And we just want to support events to support all athletes, not just focus on the front ones.

So that's a garboard She Races, but I'd love everyone to follow us on She Don't Race at Instagram.

um, support us, um, tell us about great races, get them accredited.

Um, it means that women can find them, which is the main thing.

Um, and we've got lots of people kind of fundraising for us, um, now because we need funds to, to keep the workout.

Yeah.

How did connecting with having a goal that was outside of motherhood, that on the surface of it would be a conflict, right? How did that help you rediscover yourself?

I think...

My matrescence came before I became a mother.

I think it...

So I nearly lost my life in Cambodia.

So I did one of these stage races and I drank too much water and I went into a coma.

And my husband was given a phone call saying she's got half a chance of dying and half a chance of brain damage and you need to get on a plane.

And I love the fact that some mothers have got it

Yeah.

And then I've literally collapsed and I'm kind of barely alive.

And you can hear the commentary and they're like, they thought they'd lost me.

And...

It's so out of body.

Yeah.

And it's so extreme.

Tell us a little bit about what it's about, where people can buy it from, and I guess why should they get the