Thanks for visiting my fundraising page.

Imagine, as you listen to the Today programme on your radio tomorrow morning, that news is coming through of a terrible plane crash at Bristol Airport, in which over 250 people are killed. How do you react I wonder? Probably with a range of emotions; you would, perhaps, be shocked, bewildered, angry or very sad. Many might be inclined to demand a public enquiry.

In the UK alone, there are more than 100,000 deaths from sudden heart attacks every year. Do your maths. The equivalent of a planeload, today, tomorrow, the day after… that’s the scale of heart disease.  It does not discriminate. We are all vulnerable - yes politicians, priests and professors included! And heart disease affects women as well as men; 1 in 3 women who die this week will be killed by heart and circulatory disease.

I am one of the lucky ones - not a plane crash survivor - but having recovered, thanks to highly skilled surgery, from a highly successful quadruple heart by pass operation at the end of 2006. I have now decided to take on another marathon challenge, by becoming a Heart Runner in the London Marathon on April 26th to help raise vital funds for the British Heart Foundation - the nation’s heart charity for pioneering research that saves and improves the lives of vulnerable adults and children.

Please be as generous as you can and help me to raise £5,000. Marathons don’t get any easier: the next two months are going to be very hard going indeed with many hours of gruelling weekly training in and around Clifton and Bristol. Your most generous support will not only help me in these preparations but on the day itself. Your thoughts and generosity will get me round, I promise you.

Now the easy bit! You can donate online simply by clicking this link: www.justgiving.com/alanrundle.  Alternatively, you can post a cheque made out to "BHF" to me at Rundle Brownswood Ltd, Leigh Court, Abbots Leigh, Bristol BS8 3RA. And if you are a taxpayer, don’t forget to Gift Aid your donation.  It's worth an extra 28p for every £1 you donate.

Thank you for your kind support.

Alan Rundle