The Timothy Pruss Memorial School (TPMS) in Inungur Village, in Tamil Nadu State, India, provides a unique opportunity for the children of poor rural families to have access to education, to learn English, and to thrive and prosper in a clean, safe and positive environment.

The school provides education for boys and girls from the ages of 5 to 12 years old. It is named after Michael (Mike) Pruss’s younger brother, Timothy (Tim), the son of Mary and the late Dr. Tony Pruss, who tragically died in a train accident aged 18 in 2005, shortly after finishing high school. The school in India was named in Tim’s honour and memory and is sponsored in part by the Pruss family and friends.

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Three friends. 13.1 Miles. £30k. Meet the runners!

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Mike was born and bred in East London where he grew up with his parents, both in the medical profession, the late Dr. Tony Pruss and his mother, now a retired nurse, Mary, and younger brother Tim.

Mike has worked in the entertainment business for almost two decades and is currently the President of Film Production at Scott Free, the film and television company owned and operated by Sir Ridley Scott. Prior to this, Mike worked at Focus Features, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks.

An avid runner, film lover, and West Ham fanatic, Mike serves on the board of the Bede Griffiths Charitable Trust which supports the school and its community in India.

Mike lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Marika, and their baby, Emily, and has two older daughters, Lucy and Juliette. This project is incredibly important to the Pruss family and by running this race Mike hopes to raise much needed funds for the school where in addition to the general poverty of the area, the Covid-19 pandemic’s effects are still deeply felt.

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Born in New York City, Rene Cadet currently resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife and two daughters. Prior to living in California, Rene attended Southern New Hampshire University where he majored in Political Science, before moving on to graduate from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles.

Since graduating in 2006, Rene has worked on numerous film and television productions as an actor, and has gone on to work in the commodities industry as an accounts executive.

Rene is an avid runner. And after participating in the Long Beach half marathon in 2012, he has gone on to run in many half-marathons all over Southern California.

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Justin Alvarado Brown currently resides in West Hollywood with his wife, Christina, and their three beautiful boys, Griffin, Callum, and Steffen. 

Justin is the President and C.O.O. of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, where he oversees the company’s film and television businesses. It’s also where he met his dear friend and colleague of more than a decade, Mike Pruss. Prior to joining Scott Free in 2010, Justin held various business and legal affairs positions at Overture Films, HBO, and MGM/United Artists. 

Justin earned his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law Schoolin 1999, and he received his Bachelor of Arts in Chicano Studies, with a minor in Rhetoric, from U.C. Berkeley in 1996. 

Justin is an avid and longtime runner, having completed five marathons. This will be his third half marathon, including Long Beach which he ran with Rene and Mike (who ran the full marathon) in 2012, but it will be Justin’s first race of this distance since breaking his ankle in March 2022. It has helped motivate Justin on his path to recovery and during his training, knowing he would be supporting Mike and the incredible Timothy Pruss Memorial School.