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Participants: Susie Hewer
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My Treble · 1 April 2010
With 17 marathons and a Guinness World Record for 'The Longest Scarf Knitted Whilst Running a Marathon' under my belt in the past 4 years you'd think that I'd probably have had enough. Wrong! 17 is such a silly number and 20 sounds much better so here's what I have planned - a treble of marathons on consecutive weekends.
The marathons I will be running are the Brighton Marathon on 18th April (completed in 4:56:57), the Virgin London Marathon on 25th April (completed in 5:43:22 and established a new Guinness World Record) and the Three Forts Marathon (which is actually an ultra marathon of 27 miles) on 3rd May (completed in 6:01:24 in dreadful weather conditions and I took a tumble at mile 14!).
However, as usual, there's a twist: I wanted to link in with the Alzheimer's Research Trust's Memories Matter campaign http://www.memories-matter.org/ and so I thought about my knitting exploits and realised there was an obvious link - crochet! You see, there is a crochet stitch called a 'treble' and I will be running 3 marathons and in crochet you can form a series of chain links. This in turn made me think about how our brain stores our memories and how these links are broken by dementia. QED!
So, at the Virgin London Marathon, I will be attempting another Guinness World Record but this time for the 'Longest Crochet Chain whilst running a marathon'. It occurred to me that each one of those chains will represent someone whose life has been touched by dementia so I shall be calling my crochet hook my 'memory hook' from now on. If you would like me to crochet a link in memory of a loved one, please write their name in the comments box when you make a donation. Many thanks to Gerard at http://www.iknit.org.uk/ for providing the yarn I'll be using.
Check out my blog at Extreme Knitting Redhead to see how my training is going. I need all the support I can get this year as my training has been severely hampered since an HGV ploughed into the back of my car, writing it off and leaving me with whiplash - not the best start to the year!
If you don't already know my reasons for doing this, please take a few moments to read Mum's Story and you will understand why:Charities pay a small fee for our service. Learn more about fees