Cancer doctor wins gruelling 268-mile ultramarathon after a picture from last year’s race exposed her cheating ex-boyfriend’s affair

A cancer doctor has won a gruelling 268-mile ultramarathon after a picture from last year’s race exposed her cheating ex-boyfriend’s affair.

Dr Lucy Gossage, 45, who said she used to finish in last place in cross country when she was younger, ran in the dead of night through bitter snow storms for 87 hours, taking just three hours and 40 minutes of rest during the 2025 Spine Race.

The race goes along the Pennine Way, stretching from the Derbyshire Peak District to the Scottish Border, and has a cumulative elevation of 10,732m which is the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest.

Dr Gossage, who works full time as an NHS oncologist at Nottingham City Hospital, was raising money for Move Against Cancer, a charity she co-founded in 2018 to help cancer patients get active. 

But it was not her only motivation, after she discovered a devastating personal heartbreak at the same race in January last year, when she finished in third place.

The 45-year-old had entered the 2024 Spine Race with her…