***UPDATE***

We did it!!  Sunday dawned cloudy and a bit drizzly, but rapdily got nicer.  13,500 people lined up at the start so it was a bit of a scrum!  The course was quite hilly but very well supported.  My Dad came over to cheer which was brilliant (thanks Dad!).  Graham finished in a personal best of 1h 31 (he came 310th overall), and I ran the whole thing and finished in 2h 12.  Hurrah!!  Thanks to everyone for your very generous support, it really means a lot to us and the orangs.

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Hi folks,

Thanks for visiting our fundraising page.  We're running the Nottingham half marathon (13.1 miles!) in aid of the World Land Trust (WLT). 

WLT has an opportunity to purchase a vital piece of land in Borneo which connects two government-owned wildlife reserves. This protected corridor will create a viable reserve for orang-utans to live in.  WLT needs to raise £343,364 over the next six months to secure the land. This will give a future to the estimated 604 orang-utans currently depending on these forests and protect many other rare and threatened species, including the Borneo Pygmy Elephant and the Proboscis Monkey.  We visited Borneo in April; it's an amazing part of the world which desperately needs protection.  You can see some of our photos on the left, including Merudu, an orphan orang-utan.

This is my first half marathon - I've been training like a demon and run nearly 300 miles and cycled 125 miles so far!  I've also lost over 2 stone!!  Graham has also been training really hard and this will be his fourth half marathon; he's aiming for a personal best of 1h 30.  We're a very good cause so please, please sponsor us now - our fundraising target of £570 is one orang-utan's worth of forest!