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Mike's European Marathons

Mike Harley is raising money for IiME

Mike's EU Marathons · 20 November 2014

Invest in ME Research has, as its objective, to change how myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) is perceived, treated and researched. We do this by raising funding for biomedical research and improving education about the disease. We are currently facilitating high-quality biomedical research in UK/Europe

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Running marathons across Europe to raise awareness and funds for Invest In ME (www.investinme.org) a leading ME research charity.

www.mikeseumarathons.eu

Prague, Czech Rep - May 3rd 2015

Helsinki, Finland - Aug 15th 2015

Dublin, Ireland - Oct 26th 2015

Thessaloniki, Greece - Apr 3rd 2016

Stockholm, Sweden - Jun 4th 2016

Gdansk, Poland - Aug 15th 2016

Brussels, Belgium - Oct 2nd 2016

Toulouse, France - Oct 23rd 2016

Barcelona, Spain - Mar 12th 2017

Luxembourg, Luxembourg - May 27th 2017

Vilnius, Lithuania - Sept 10th 2017

Amsterdam, Netherlands - Oct 15th 2017

Ljubljana, Slovenia - Oct 29th 2017

Malta, Malta - Feb 25th 2018

Vienna, Austria - Apr 22nd 2018

Copenhagen, Denmark - May 13th 2018

Tallinn, Estonia - Sept 9th 2018

Sofia, Bulgaria - Oct 14th 2018

Paphos, Cyprus - Mar 17th 2019

Bratislava, Slovakia - Apr 7th 2019

Riga, Latvia - May 19th 2019

Budapest, Hungary - Sept 29th 2019

Bucharest, Romania - Oct 13th 2019

Porto, Portugal - Nov 3rd 2019

Bristol (unofficial) - Mar 11th 2020

Sofia, Bulgaria - Oct 11th 2020

Hamburg, Germany - Sept 12th 2021

Zagreb, Croatia - Oct 10th 2021

Rome, Italy - Mar 27th 2022

Liechtenstein Alpine - June 11th 2022

Florence, Italy - Nov 27th 2022

Bergen, Norway - Apr 29th 2023

Lucerne, Switzerland - Oct 29th 2023

Belgrade, Serbia - Apr 28th 2024

Podgorica, Montenegro - Nov 10th 2024

Belfast, N.Ireland - May 4th 2025

Skopje, N.Macedonia - Oct 5th 2025

Sarajevo, Bosnia - Apr 26th 2026

Reykjavik, Iceland - Aug 22nd 2026

Next:

Two Rivers, Netherlands - Mar 21st 2027

Tirana, Albania - Oct 2027 (TBC)

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Well over 400,000 people in the UK suffer with ME and including my good friend, Ian, who has suffered for over 15 years with the illness. Watching him drift from year to year without improvement is extremely hard to watch, I want to try to do something to stop this.

Invest In ME (www.investinme.org) are committed to raising funds and awareness to find the cause and cure and are a voluntarily run organisation doing some amazing work. They're making progress in working with scientists and researchers to find cures and treatments. They will be opening a specialist centre of excellence for ME where patients can get diagnosis and treatment and have even crowd-funded enough to hold their own clinical trials. They are also funding the PhD's of students investigating the cause and possible treatments of the disease.

ME is an illness with no set recovery time or guarantee of recovery. It is the most common reason for school absence amongst children in the UK. Symptoms include severe pain, fatigue, sickness and cognitive dysfunction and many more. A huge number of people I've met are house bound, tube-fed, bed bound and worse. If you know someone with ME -donating to Invest In ME is how you can help them get better, we need research and we need it now.

Thanks for your support!

Donation summary

Total
£53,498.27
+ £2,672.55 Gift Aid
Online
£50,366.27
Offline
£3,132.00

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