Is running in your mental health toolkit?
For Enter Shikari singer Rou Reynolds, it's an essential part, so he's running the London Marathon to help raise money for mental health. Also: how slow is too slow??
The chart-topping rock star running a marathon for mental health
Enter Shikari is a British rock band. I first saw them perform live over 20 years ago (!!) with a couple dozen others, but now they play their eccentric, bombastic, electronics-infused bangers to tens of thousands of people at a time, and their seventh album, A Kiss for the Whole World entered the UK Albums Charts at No.1 in April 2023.
Their singer, Rou Reynolds is running his first marathon in April for UK charity, the Mental Health Foundation.
“My brother and I would watch the London Marathon together on TV, and it always had the element of prestige. It’s almost quite magical.”
“I’ve spoken to a lot of people where the weight of emotion in the air from all these people running for all these very personal causes.”
The 2024 London Marathon raised almost $100 million, which is the largest amount of money ever raised in …
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