50 Mile Run

Neil Simpson, Alasdair Hunter, Chris Westwood, Sharon and Kirsty Singer and Mat Comer are running 50 MILES (each!) in one day (Saturday 17th May 2008).

On May 17th 2008, we will run 50 miles in a day to raise money for Macmillan Cancer support in memory of Dee Mason, a local Hampshire Fund-raiser who died of cancer 2 years ago. Tragically, Dee lost her life to cancer in 2006. Now relatives and supporters of Dee are following in her brave footsteps and carrying on an annual sponsored walk through the New Forest.

Neil Simpson, a friend of the family, wanted to kick-start the fund raising campaign for 2008 and decided to embark on a 50 mile run on the day before the sponsored walk. He has enlisted Alasdair, Chris, Sharon, Mat and Kirsty. For information on the Dee Mason memorial walk see:

http://www.freewebs.com/deememorialwalk/index.htm

Neil, Alasdair, Chris, Mat, Sharon and Kirsty will start their run at the source of the river Itchen in Cheriton, East Hampshire, down the Itchen Way to Winchester, following the Clarendon Way to Salisbury (Wiltshire), travelling south along the Avon Valley path into the New Forest and finishing at Nomansland on the Wiltshire/Hampshire county border.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Running
• 50
• miles
• cheriton
• winchester
• salisbury
• nomansland
• lamb
• charity
• macmillan

[FourSeasonRunner]

@yorke543 because running a marathon at your best time pace is MUCH harder than running 50 miles at a jogging pace. I ran more than 50 miles non stop and it didn't hurt me a bit, I relaxed the next day but 2 days after the long run I trained again. But after I ran a marathon in 3 hours and 24 minutes my ankles hurt for a week because I was running fast and recovering from angina.

[Aritul]

Awesome!

[eospow]

Weird comment, lol Only reason I can think we need more humans like that in this day in age is for war. Bet ya all of um but one work in a office. 2009 baby !!!!!!!

[yorke543]

wow.. i dont know how u managed to run that far, iv just completed a marathon yesterday.. i still cant walk properly lol, u guys have guts of that i can only dream about.. well done :)

[elblogdemike]

NICE. we need more humans like all this.

[nickgarrod]

I think the start shows a slight competitive attitude Sharon.. rated this 5 stars because that means 'awesome'