** Fundraising extended to April! **

Mark successfully conquered the autumn Wolf Run in Charlotte's place, due to Charlotte undergoing emergency surgery two weeks prior to the event. Both will now do the spring Wolf Run 2019 on April 13th.

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Charlotte's story:

Having never run more than 5k in one go before, I've signed up (with some of my lovely colleagues at ITV News Central) to do the autumn Wolf Run!

The charity I've chosen is Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK) - and I'll be running in honour of my fabulous mom.

To put it briefly, my mother is one of the best people in the world. She's smiley, friendly, and generous to a fault. 

You'd never know it to look at her, but beneath the dazzling smile she's often hiding an enormous amount of pain. She's been suffering with Rheumatoid Arthritis for over 15 years now. Not only does this leave her in agony when it flares up, it can completely sap her energy.

Down to the incredible research carried out in the past decade, last year she was actually been able to go a few months pain-free for the first time since before she was diagnosed. It came back - it always does, eventually - but she's still a thousand times better than she was. She had her latest infusion in February 2019 so is now recovering once more.

Versus Arthritis is working to find treatments for people with all forms of arthritis - including rheumatoid. Hopefully one day, they can find a treatment which keeps my amazing mom - and everyone else suffering this horrible condition - active and pain-free for years on end.

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