We lost Chris just over a year ago now and life has not been the same,.. it will never be the same.

Chris had the biggest heart I have ever known in anybody,.. He would help everyone from his family to people he met in the pub. But he wouldn't help himself,. he wouldn't ask for help and he wouldn't accept it.

He held down very serious management jobs and functioned at a very high level but was always struggling with anxiety and his own problems that he kept hidden. He was a very proud man and didn't want to burden others or ask for help.

Socially, he was the life and soul and the clown of any party and he loved that atmosphere where everybody was happy and having a good time. He will be missed by a great many people.

Its a little strange to be running a marathon in not just his memory but his honour. I often tried to get him out running to help with his problems but although sport played a huge part in his childhood, its not something he maintained and I wish he had,.

I imagine him now quoting Sean Connery from the Untouchables to me,.. "Enough of this running shit"

But I am going to run for him,.. because there just isn't anything else I can do for him.....

And in doing that,. I hope Men's Minds Matter help other people and families to not go through what we are going through.