<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Greetings all, thanks for taking the time to visit our Just Giving Page.</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">After the warm up event in London it&rsquo;s time to turn your attention to the main marathon event of the year. We are of course referring to the inaugural Marathon of the North, held on the streets of Sunderland on Sunday 6th May. </span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">We signed up for this event back in October originally to complete the course for our own sense of self satisfaction. However having completed almost 14 weeks of intense training in all weathers at all times of the day we felt it would be a shame not to contribute something to a worthy cause. If you think this effort of ours is worthy of a donation please feel free to donate a token amount to our chosen charity Grace House Hospice North East.</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Grace House Hospice North East aims to provide care and support for families with seriously or terminally ill children. It's a great organisation anything you can give will be greatly appreciated (see link below).</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">If running in the Marathon was not enough to get you digging in to your pockets, at the end of May we are teaming up with our good friend Gaz to compete in the team relay race at the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, where we will each be running a leg of the marathon course.</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">So again, thank you for visiting our page and anything you can donate will be much appreciate.</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Robin, Nicky, Stu and Gaz</span></span></p> <p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gracehouse.co.uk/index.html">http://www.gracehouse.co.uk/index.html</a></span></span></p>