92 unmarked miles, 13 runners, 1 world record breaker, 1 great cause!

Former 5000m world record holder David Moorcroft, OBE, is heading up a Loughborough University team competing in the Round Leicestershire Relay for Anthony Nolan, the charity that takes back lives from leukaemia by recruiting to and managing the UK’s most successful bone marrow register. 

Loughborough alumni Moorcroft is part of a team of University staff, research students and alumni in support of Dean of Engineering Steve Rothberg who is undergoing treatment for leukaemia.

University staff and members of local club Barrow Runners have organised the challenge following on from a donor drive for Anthony Nolan at the University in May that attracted the highest number of recruits from any UK university to date.  Since then, a donor has been found for Steve, however there are 1,400 adults and children in the UK and 16,000 people worldwide in need of a bone marrow transplant.

A map of the relay race is published on this page.  Find out more about the relay here.

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