What is your favourite training session?
Running on the North Downs on summer evenings with Dorking and Mole Valley AC, with my friend Debs.
What is your least favourite training session?
Interval training on a winter’s evening on the streets of Dorking with Dorking and Mole Valley AC! Without my friend Debs.
Who is your athletic hero/heroine?
It has to be Jane Tomlinson, for obvious reasons.
What is your greatest running achievement?
Managing to run (stagger) the Bupa Great North Run for Marie Curie Cancer Care having only been running for six months prior to that.Now I love running!
What was your first race?
The Bupa Great North Run in Newcastle upon Tyne. I first took part in 2006.
What interests do you have?
Currently obsessing about staying injury free for the Bupa Great North Run so I can do all I can for Marie Curie.
What is your favourite race venue?
The Bupa Great North Run in Newcastle of course!
What sporting event would you most like to go to?
The Olympics in London in 2012, please. That would be so amazing!
If you didn’t work in television, what career path do you think you would have taken?
Ballet (in theory ...)
In the hours leading up to a race, how do you prepare?
Pacing up and down the floor, eating porridge and imagining that I need the toilet 100 times.
JANE SLAUGHTER is the longest serving female character in EastEnders. Having appeared on the first show with her flower stall in 1985, she has been pulling pints since 1986 in the Queen Vic. Training at Elmhurst Ballet School as a child, Jane soon realised she preferred acting and has since starred in two BBC dramas including Ballet Shoes and What Katy Did.
In 2008 Jane’s character Tracy, who, whilst appearing regularly, says very little in the show, had a major speaking role in an episode of the soap. Jane lives near Dorking and is a regular jogger, training with a local running club. She took a break from filming for a chat with Great Run.