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On Sunday 11^th April 2010 I will be running/jogging/falling/crawling but hopefully finishing the Connemara Marathon in Galway West Ireland.

This savagely hilly, windy and probably wet 26.2 mile trek will be the first competitive running race I have taken part in since Tutshill Primary School fun run 1993 but I have started training and had a look through a copy of runners world so am hopeful that I will acquit myself well.

I will be running this marathon for the Badger Trust who promote the conservation and welfare of badgers. In the last few years much of the Badger Trust’s work has been focused on campaigning against a potential cull of badgers, which the National Farmers Union has been advocating in the vain hope that this will eliminate bovine tuberculosis in cattle. The work of the badger trust is particularly important at the moment as they campaign against the first large-scale Badger cull that the Welsh government is planning in areas of Wales this summer.

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