
There’s about a month to go until the London Marathon (27 April), when around 50,000 runners will take to the streets of the capital – chef and cookbook author Noor Murad will be among them.
“I have been training for a very long time. I’ve done quite a few half marathons and 5Ks and 10Ks, but I’ve never really tackled that distance. It always seemed ridiculous to me,” she says, sounding like she’s still stunned that her name actually got picked in the ballot.