A VETERINARY coach and mother-of-two will be running 10 marathons in 10 days for an animal welfare charity.

Carolyne Crowe, 40, has worked in the veterinary industry for 15 years and now runs her own business as a performance coach and mentor for vets.

She will be running an astonishing 10 marathons in 10 days in April alongside fellow vet Brian Faulkner to raise £10,000 for Brooke – an international animal welfare charity which aims to improve the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

One of the marathons will start in Berkeley, over the Severn Bridge and back to Breadstone.

She said: “With this charity, if you treat the animals you also treat the people because they depend on them entirely for their livelihood.

“I’ve spent my career treating animals to treat the people and I now dedicate my time working with the people who care for the animals.

“I’ve come full circle and it’s very close to my heart.”

Her 10 marathon locations are John O’Groates, Orkney, Inverness, Edinburgh, Belfast, West Sligo, Berkeley, Penzance, Windsor finishing with the London Marathon on Sunday, April 23.

Carolyne’s husband Ollie, 43, works at the Breadstone base of the B&W equine vets group, where her Berkeley run will finish.

Ollie will join her for roughly 10 miles of each marathon, and their children Kitty, nine and Angus, seven, will be joining them both for about two miles of each stage.

Carolyne said: “During my years in practice I quickly realised that treating animals was the easy bit of being a vet.

“It’s often everything else we want and need to do that become the stumbling blocks, that in managing our own lives where the bigger challenges are to be found.”

As well as being a life coach and mentor for vets - awarded Life Coach of the Year 2015 at the International Coaching Awards - Carolyne is a workplace health and wellbeing specialist and honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, assisting with the advanced veterinary practice module.

She is also a coach for the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust working with professional athletes.

“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do for your job, at the end of the day we are all just people and we all want to get the most out of the life and careers we have - I help others do this," she said.

She is also undertaking a PhD at the University of Nottingham Medical School in workplace health and wellbeing.

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