Andy Goldsby's life was spiralling out of control. Overweight, he was drinking and smoking too much, and it was starting to effect his mental as well as physical health.
It was a chance moment that changed his life. Desperate to make a change, he entered the London Marathon on a whim, never expecting to get in.
The marathon lottery Gods were smiling on him, and to Andy's shock he was - at 20 stone and struggling to climb the stairs - on course to run one of the world's most famous running events.
Buoyed by the chance to reverse a fitness journey that was heading in the wrong direction, he started training and clocking up the miles.
Since then, Andy has become a regular runner, taking on distances from parkrun 5ks to marathons.
Along the way, he has become a run director at Arrow Valley parkrun and more recently joined forces with YouTuber Tim Stent, aka The Middle Aged Running Man, to become one half of the Marmcast pod.
In this episode of Running Tales, we spoke to Andy about how running has changed his life...
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