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We have done it!!! Just. Shocking weather forecast led to a few worries about whether the walls would even be open. Fortunately, they were and after a brief radio interview we were off. After a few laps together chatting, natural pace took its turn and we all split up to sufffer individually. An amazing amount of support from friends, family and the people of York got us through to the end and we all reached the first objective of completing a marathon i.e. 10 laps and 5250 steps. Snow started to fall at around 8 laps making the last 2 laps very atmospheric!! An amazing effort from everyone involved and lots of money collected from the generous walkers on the wall.
Thanks especially to David, David, Mark, Paul and Phil for stupidly agreeing to do it, but huge thanks to everyone who supported, donated, quizzed, reported, allowed us on radio, sponsored, fed, rubbed on ibuprofen gel, signed shirts, donated painkillers etc etc.
We were discussing running a marathon, decided it was boring, so came up with the idea for setting a world record for running round York City Walls. The boys from the black irish drink would'nt ratify it so it is an unofficial World Record attempt!! Hating running, being 40, heavy boned, with dodgy knees (Nick) should make for a short lived record. Luckily the rest of the team (David F, David C, Mark, Phil, Paul) are amazingly fit, healthy, running machines so running dawn till dusk round a 2 1/2 mile circuit of rough stone walls with steps should be a walk in the park. We are raising money for The TSA because Sam, Nick's little boy, has the condition. Sam has brain tumours, epilepsy, polysystic kidney disease and learning delay. We are running in Feb cos' its near his birthday and not, as some of you cynics might think, because the days are shorter!! Research in TSC is currently at a very exciting stage with the first drug treatment released in 2011. Your money is needed to make sure research continues to find further treatments for the various symptoms of the condition. So give us some of your money and laugh at the thought of just how much pain we are going to be in!!
Thanks
Paul Barnet, Mark Cage, David Cropper, Nick Dale, David Foster, Phil Jackson and everyone who suffers from TSC.
