After running many events separately over the years, Alex and Simon are joining forces to raise money for Parkinson's research, by doing the Reading Endure 24 ultramarathon in June as a relay team.

The goal of the event is to complete as many laps of an 8 kilometer / 5 mile course as we can in 24 hours. Only one us can be on the course at any one time, and we aim to run at least 100km between us in 24 hours.

We hope you will feel moved to support this foolishness in a good cause. You can sponsor either of us individually, and it's combined into our team fundraising target of £1,000.

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