'Rob just put it down to bad luck': Lindsey Burrow on her husband, MND and running her own marathons

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Wife of rugby league legend who spent the last five years of his life raising awareness of MND and fundraising for a cure says the game will always be a part of her family's life

This weekend Lindsey Burrow will run the London Marathon. Two weeks later, she will run the Leeds Marathon. And she's not even what she'd call a good runner. "I think coming from Yorkshire and having that Yorkshire grit," she says, with a smile, "I'm just quite stubborn."

Burrow has always found getting out for a run good for her mental state and in the nine months since she lost her husband, it has become vital. "It's just given me that headspace to go out and focus on something positive," she says, speaking on Zoom from her Pontefract home. "And the marathons have given me a goal."