People who 'fat shame' marathon runners like me have got their priorities in the wrong place

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People who 'fat shame' marathon runners like me have got their priorities in the wrong place
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'The question I always get asked is “what was your time?” How I loathe this question, which feels designed almost to trip you up, having previously avoided such a fate for 26.2 miles' writes Bryony Gordon

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned, but I’ve run a couple of marathons. I say ‘run’, but the last one, one blisteringly hot April day in 2018, was more of a shuffle due to coming down with heat stroke at mile 14 .

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