I nearly didn’t sign up for the GNR this year. My mam died in February - this had always been “our” event in our family, and I thought it’d be too sad.

But then in the past 18 months I’ve learned of two good friends who’ve been diagnosed with MND - my lovely, lovely mate Matthew Smith, who’s perhaps the nicest person I know, and my amazing colleague Andrew Hartley. I realised that the race is an opportunity to help my friends right now, and so I want to support them both by raising as much as I can for the MND Association.

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