Updated on Oct 15th 2012 at 7:12 AM from the JustGiving API

Well I did it ... Finished in 3hrs 40 mins and 25 secs. I was 87th in the over 40s category and 545th out of the 10,000 ... Really pleased with the time but not the pain at the end ! Got some more offline donations so over £1,300 in sponsorship - makes it so worthwhile for a fantastic cause. Big thanks to everyone :-)

Updated on Oct 13th 2012 at 7:59 PM from the JustGiving API

Final supper before the race was an uninspiring whole meal pasta and salmon :-)

Updated on Oct 13th 2012 at 7:34 AM from the JustGiving API

26 hours to go to the start ... Eating pasta salmon and rice and that's it ! :-)

Updated on Oct 11th 2012 at 6:27 PM from the JustGiving API

Massive thank you to all my sponsors ... And still more coming in. No pressure on Sunday then ;-)

Updated on Oct 3rd 2012 at 7:35 AM from the JustGiving API

A massive thank you to everyone who has sponsored me so far - I also have some offline sponsorship so now less than £100 off my target and hopefully will exceed for this great cause. Thanks again :-)

This will be my first (and possibly last) Marathon and I am doing it for Marie Curie as the Hospice in Woolton was fantastic to my dad in the last few weeks of his life. He died peacefully at the Hospice - the staff were all fantastic with both medical and emotional support.

Alan Thomas Evans Treherne was born in Nantyglo, South Wales, on 18 June 1930. His father,Frank was a grocer and was from Hereford, and his mother, Emily, was from Ludlow. Alan was the eighth of ten children, Vernon (shot down in the second world war and awarded the DFC), Agnus (known as Nancy), Ronnie, Evelyn (known as Betty), Rene (or more formally Irene), Ken, Jean, Gordon and Bryn. Early in Alan’s parent’s marriage, they moved to Nantyglo and that became the family home where many of Alan’s family still live.

Alan attended Hafod Y Ddol Grammer School in Nantyglo (as did Mary a few years later). He studied for his BA at St David’s Lampeter and undertook his theological training at Oxford. During holidays he supplemented his grant by working for Royal Mail as a postman and he also went on the daily bus from Brynmawr to Bulmer’s Cider in Hereford to work on the production line. He and another student were made quality controllers who spent an hour on and an hour off looking at the cider to check for impurities. They had no expertise in the task, but, were appointed because they were the only two teetotallers - the rest of the Brynmawr crew always ended the day the worse for wear as there was no restriction on the sampling of the product.

Alan did his National Service in Egypt and Libya where he worked as a radiographer.

He was ordained at Hereford Cathedral on Sunday 23 September 1956 by Tom Longworth, Bishop of Hereford. He became curate at St Peter’s, Hereford and during this period, he and Mary, married in Brynmawr and set up their home together in Hereford.

In 1957, they both set sail for Agra in North India, where they were to serve as missionaries for the Church Missionary Society for the next 14 years. Alan was Headmaster of St John’s College and Vicar of the cantonment Church of St Georges. Their son Timothy was born in the Hill Station of Mussoorie in Kashmir in 1959, followed by Andrew in 1964 and Peter in 1970 , both of who were born at the American Mission Hospital at Vrindaban in Uttar Pradesh.

The family returned to the United Kingdom in 1971 where Alan became vicar of Christchurch, Netherley in Liverpool, before becoming Vicar and then Team Rector of this church, St Stephen’s, Gateacre . He served at St Stephens until his retirement in 1996. Alan was made a Canon of Liverpool Cathedral for his services to the Church in Liverpool and beyond. He and Mary then moved to Oswestry where he was licensed in Lichfield Diocese and served in several of the outlying Churches and was, for a short period, the acting Rural Dean.

Alan was active up until a very short time ago. His illness did not affect his faith and he treasured his memories of the happy times he had spent in Liverpool and latterly in Oswestry. Alan is survived by his sisters Betty in Nantyglo, Nancy in Brynmawr and his brother Bryn in Adelaide, Australia, and by his wife, Mary, his three sons and his five grandchildren.