Thanks to all who have come up to me in Kingston this week, asking about the Great North Run.

I’m still not sure how I did it, but I’m still over the moon and love watching my little ones wear my medal and my husband wear my T-shirt.

Not one to shy away from a challenge, I have decided to take on the eight-mile Garmin Kingston Run on Sunday, October 12.

Once again, I will be running for Sparks, the children’s medical research charity, the official charity partner of the challenge.

As a long-term supporter, I want to raise awareness of better treatments for our children.

I always find if you have a great cause to run for, it always spurs you on to get to the end. Plus being a mother of two gorgeous healthy children, I want the same for everyone else going through the experience of pregnancy.

Each year, less than £10 per child in the UK is spent on research into child health, yet every day one in 30 babies is born in the UK with a condition which may affect them for life. I am raising money to help fund pioneering medical research to get this to change.

I have seen first-hand the medical research that Sparks funds as I recently visited a project at Kingston University, led by Dr Lori Snyder, that aims to develop a treatment for preventing blindness in newborn babies caused as a result of gonorrhoea infection passing from the mother to baby at birth. It is a unique project that will save the sight of babies around the world.

So who else is going to sign up for the run? If not, you can support my run by donating at justgiving.com/ AngellicaBell. Thanks x

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