Grahams on the move
Ivo Graham is raising money for Multiple Sclerosis Society
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In short:
We're all doing a run together, please sponsor!
In long:
Friends of the Graham family and bombardees of previous JustGiving pages from Ivo will know of the continuingly sub-ideal role MS plays in our lives, but until now our collective feelings towards the disease have not coalesced into the unwieldy multi-Graham sports event that fundraising dreams are made of. The vaguely sinister colour co-ordination above (proper MS Society tees in the post so currently sharing Ivo’s old singlets and one Dutch football shirt) mark the point at which this officially changes.
So without any further ado, here are your not one, but TWO EMINENTLY SPONSORSHIP-WORTHY COLLECTIVE EFFORTS.
On April 23rd, Ivo and Ludo will be running the London marathon: Ludo’s first, for which he’s trained by lumbering round Walthamstow Wetlands while listening to Jonathan Franzen novels, and Ivo’s third, for which he’s trained by giving up crisps and filming videos of himself running late to gigs.
Even more excitingly, two weeks prior, on April 7th (Good Friday no less), all five of us will be hauling ourselves out of bed earlier than is ideal on a bank holiday and heading to East London’s Victoria Park for the RunThrough 5k, 10k, and half-marathon event.
Ludo will be doing the half (standard fare, load up the Franzen)
Hugh will be doing the half (the longest run he’s ever done, frankly embarrassing given the school cross-country prowess shown in the early 70s)
Ivo will be doing the half, but doing so while pushing Emma, a mother-son collaboration that could be anywhere between very bonding and very boring (if the weather holds she’ll probably bring an FT)
Georgia will be opting for the rather more manageable 5km (really hates running but very aware of the optics of not doing it at all)
We’re very pleased to be joined in this odyssey of orange by our uncle James (10km) and cousins Alexander (10km) and Katie (5km), and the RunThrough event is still very much open for anyone else who wanted to join us over any of the three lengths.
https://www.runthrough.co.uk/event/victoria-park-5k-10k-half-marathon-april-2023/
Please do read below about the MS Society and the amazing work they do, both to support those who live with the condition and those who care for them, and to fund research into treatments and cures. Any donations would be hugely appreciated.