About Susannah
In 2019 Susannah set a new female World Record for running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days.
She completed the feat when taking part in World Marathon Challenge which saw her run 295km and travel 55,000 miles in 168 hours. She finished 6 of the 7 marathons in first place, with an average race time of 3 hours 28 minutes and 9 seconds which smashed the previous record of 3 hours 55 minutes. She ran in aid of SportsAid and raised over £19,000 for the charity which supports Great Britain’s next generation of athletes. Susannah is now an ambassador for SportsAid.
““I love running – I could talk about running all day!”
Her best marathon time is 2 hours 56 minutes which was achieved at the Manchester Marathon in April 2019 where she was the 19th woman to cross the line. At the 2012 London Marathon she set a a Guinness World Record for the fastest woman dressed as an animal, completing the race in a time of 3 hours 18 minutes dressed as a peacock, only to beaten by a tortoise a few years later!
Aside from the 60+ marathons she has completed over the last decade, Susannah has run a number of ultra-marathons, including 100km, 100 mile and 24-hour races. Her favourite races to date have been the 100km Pharaonic Race around Cairo in 2012 where she was first woman and third overall, along with a 100km Thames Path Challenge from Henley to Putney along the river Thames which she won in both 2017 and 2019, in a time of 9 hours 27 minutes.
She is a qualified personal trainer alongside her full-time job as a Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs for the UK Tote Group, having worked in horseracing, betting and politics since graduating from Exeter University with a degree in History in 2006.
Susannah wants to inspire others to realise we can all be amazing.
Susannah runs on the streets of London and up and down the hills of Shropshire, England.