I'm not a saint or a regular charity donator, in fact when I first told people that I was going to run the Edinburgh Marathon, they often said who are you running for, and my answer was "for myself" as I simply wanted to get fit.

After a few weeks of training, I spoke to Rob on the phone immediately after Leeds played Spurs in the FA cup (I'd been at the match with Rob's Dad, Rob of course was unable to attend...just one of many thousands of everyday things that ME stops you from being able to do), Rob asked if I would run the marathon in support of ME Research UK. So I ditched my stance of selfishness and am now going to do this a well as I can.

You will see that I have set myself a target of £2500, which now suddenly seems like an awful lot of money, so I will need your help. Firstly I need your help in the form of a donation, Secondly please help publicise my appeal, why not send a link to this page to anybody and everybody in your address book/friends list, we all get plenty of unsolicited messages, maybe sending a few of your own will give you a strange sense of retribution, please try it...

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