Kerry-Ann Dodds of Reedy Creek taking on Gold Coast Marathon after string of extreme adventures

She has skydived, bungee jumped and cage dived with sharks, now the Reedy Creek resident is ticking off her next bucket list item.

KERRY-ANN Dodds has skydived, bungee jumped and cage dived with sharks.

Now for her next bucket list item, the Gold Coast Marathon.

After making the list in her late 30s with a friend, the mother-of-three has found time to tick items off one by one.

“I don’t know what made me want to do a marathon but four years ago I was making a bucket list and said to myself that ‘by 42 I should run a marathon’.” Mrs Dodds turned 42 last weekend.

“It’ll be one kilometre for every year I’ve been alive.

“This year I was looking at the list and saw what I wrote and now here I am.”

Kerry-Ann Dodds, 42, will run the Gold Coast Marathon to tick off another item from her high-octane bucket list. Picture: Jerad Williams

Mrs Dodds has experience by her side in husband Hunter – who has won multiple ultra-marathons – as she prepares for the event on July 5.

“I’m his little pet project,” she said.

“He’s been training with me doing a program he designed.

“He’ll run with me on the day. I get my own personal pacer.”

Originally from South Africa, Mrs Dodds said her next bucket list item would again involve running and allow her to spend time in her country of birth.

“If I can qualify, I want to do the Comrades Marathon in Durban, which is an 89km ultra-marathon.

“If I can run the Gold Coast Marathon in under four hours and 50 minutes, I’ll qualify to compete in it.”

Visit goldcoastmarathon.com.au/enter for information about ticket prices and how to enter the event.