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Great Ocean Road Half Marathon

Ben Holdsworth is raising money for ME Research UK

Participants: Ben Holdsworth, Chris McIntosh, Ryan Kelly

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Great Ocean Road Half-Marathon · 15 May 2011

ME Research UK exists solely to fund high quality biomedical studies into the causes and treatment of ME/CFS. This illness affects approximately 250,000 people in the UK but is neither well understood nor, in many cases, properly recognised. We fund highly regarded, peer-reviewed research worldwide.

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<p>Hi Guys,</p> <p>Thanks for visting our page.&nbsp;</p> <p>As you may or may not be aware our friend, Joe Hallett, was due to run the Great Ocean Road Marathon in&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;on May 15th.&nbsp; Due to tragic circumstances Joe has had to return home to&nbsp;England&nbsp;early and so can no longer run.</p> <p>Joe was planning to run for ME Research, a charity dedicated to biomedical research into the causes and treatment of ME, an illness from which Joe's sister suffers.</p> <p>We did not want these tragic events to lead to&nbsp;such a worthwhile charity losing out, so we've decided to run the race in Joe's place. As we've only got 2 weeks to prepare and Chris hasn't run since 2002 we're going to do the half marathon rather than the full 26 miles, but we&nbsp;hope you'll still give all you can to support us.&nbsp; As you all know every little helps!</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Ben, Chris and Ryan</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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