{"id":825219,"date":"2026-08-25T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825219\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:36:36","slug":"lincoln-running-group-aims-to-break-mental-health-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825219\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln running group aims to break mental health stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four men have launched a running group to honour their late friend and to break the stigma surrounding men&#8217;s mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradley Hardy, Eimard Legaspi, Radek Kogut and Jacob Lidgett founded Miles That Matter after losing their friend Jake to suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group meets twice a week in Lincoln for runs, with the aim of creating a space where people feel comfortable talking about their feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bradley, 27, said: &#8220;I feel like it&#8217;s created a closer atmosphere and a closer-knit group [after] that tragic loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake died at the end of last year and the friends launched the club in March because running was one of his passions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paid for out of their own pockets, they host sessions every Wednesday evening at Yarborough Leisure Centre Track as well as a social run from a different coffee shop in the city each Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We used to go down to Yarborough track and do normal sessions,&#8221; Eimard, 28, said. &#8220;So I thought we&#8217;d carry on with his memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radek, 27, added: &#8220;Running was a way that we connected&#8230; It was a way we stuck together, socialised.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four men have launched a running group to honour their late friend and to break the stigma surrounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":["post-825219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}