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On November 20th, thirteen of the AlphaSights team ran the Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes, from Nice to Cannes. 

Neither words nor pictures can describe the emotional and physical roller coaster ride that a marathon entails, but ‘Pride & Pain’ probably come closest.  Along all dimensions, AlphaSights’ Marathon from Nice to Cannes was a huge success, and we hope that the few brief facts and pictures that follow can at least provide a glimpse of what the day was all about.

Team Alpha 13 at the 8.00am Starting Shot: Amelia Griffiths, Andrew Heath, Bart Kusters, Carsten Brinkmann, Cole Styron, Jack Fraser, Johannes Koch, Julia Krauze, Lionel Ratti, Max Cartellieri, Tor Erik Linnerud, Tyrone Croome-Carroll, Zoé Wilson

Team Alpha at the Finish Line: all of the above!!

Best Time:  3:20:32 (motto: “The faster you run, the sooner the pain is over”)

Scenic Time:  5:22:34 (motto: “You’ve got to stop and smell the flowers”)

Dinner the night before: approximately 18 kilos of pasta, steak haché, and a very cheesy lasagne...

Of which revisited the next day at Kilometre 33: ...the very cheesy lasagne

 

Although the Marathon is now over we would still love you to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Here's to next year.....

The AlphaSights Marathon Team

 

Why we are supporting the Cystic Fibrosis Trust: 

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is an as-yet incurable genetic defect.  In the past, people with CF would die in childhood. The development of antibiotics has helped to keep them alive, but even today few live beyond their late 30s. Patients survive only by going through long daily physiotherapy sessions, the consumption of dozens of vitamin and enzyme tablets, and the constant use of antibiotics and asthma inhalers.

There is hope on the horizon though, with scientists at the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium researching a way to tackle the disease at a genetic level. Backed by funding from the UK Cystic Fibrosis Trust, they are working on a gene therapy treatment that could turn a disease that was once a death sentence into a manageable condition like diabetes.

The urgency to raise funds now has come about as a consequence of the financial crisis and recession, which has caused funding for the £36m project to dry up. With £ 30m spent over the past 10 years and just as scientists have closed in on their goal of an effective treatment, the project is at risk from being disbanded, dashing the hopes of thousands of sufferers.

 http://www.cftrust.org.uk/