 Marathon competitor Lynn Ashton reached Tower Bridge on Tuesday |
Courage and sheer determination - and a pack of oxygen - are carrying a woman with debilitating lung disease round the London Marathon course. Lynn Ashton's lungs were damaged in a fire at her home in Huntingdon, Cambs, on Christmas Day six years ago.
On Tuesday she passed London Bridge - halfway round the 26.2-mile course which she aims to complete on Thursday.
Mrs Ashton, 45, took up the five miles a day challenge to draw attention to the plight of people with lung disease.
Her lungs were damaged when a candle set light to a plastic table cloth and she inhaled the fumes.
'Worthwhile challenge'
She cannot go anywhere without a portable oxygen pack, which she is pushing round the course on a trolley.
"It is a big but very worthwhile challenge - if I manage to complete what I want to do," she said.
"Six years ago I didn't have a very good prognosis but I feel I am doing fairly well now and I wanted to do something to raise the profile of lung disease and the British Lung Foundation."
She is hoping to raise �5,000.
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