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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!
