The London marathon may be cancelled, but we both thought we would do the marathon in our front (very small) London garden on Sunday!

Call us crazy, but we were both very inspired by the great Captain Tom and also our garden marathon is in honour of our unsung heroes in the NHS.

The Garden Marathon Stats

Sinead and I will complete a half marathon each: UPDATE, we did a full marathon each in our garden! You guys were so generous and supporting that we just kept on running!!!

• Marathon = 26.2 miles = 42,165 metres
• 8.5 metres = 1 garden lap
• 4,960 laps
• Approx 6 seconds per lap
• Approx 10 laps per minute
• Approx 600 laps per hour
• Approx 8.2 hours to complete
• ACTUAL TIME IN TOOK TO COMPLETE WAS 6hrs 37mins

We will post photos and videos on our Instagram stories of us during the marathon, do please join us! 

Every donation is greatly appreciated, it will help us to keep focussed and motivated on each short lap of our tiny London garden. Also it is going to a great cause for supporting our NHS heroes.

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