Take The Long Road And Run It

So…we did it, we ran from Manchester to Newcastle and then ran the Great North run. As you might imagine we’re pretty shattered, battered and splattered with rain as Newcastle gave us a welcome to match Manchester’s send off by absolutely friggin’ lashing it down.

Steven Chase and Kate Blatherwick joined us for the last leg and we even managed to sneak Sam in to run the first few miles with us (don’t tell anyone)

The last 13 point something-or-other miles were tough. I think we let ourselves finish mentally on Tyne Bridge the day before and we really dragged ourselves through. Colin has injured his leg and Sam says I might’v got a stress fracture in my foot (we’re not sure though, all I know is I’m walking like a toddler and crying like a newborn)

Anyway, most importantly, with your help we have managed to raise over £1,500 (including offline donations which will be updates to JustGiving soon)

Thank you so much for joining us on this adventure, both Colin Sam and myself have had such a great time on this challenge and even in the steepest, wettest hills all of your messages made a difference, well, apart from the 4th marathon as we had no signal and lost the ability to read.

We really loved raising money for Age UK and they gave us a very warm welcome at the end of the Great North Run (with a pretty amazing sports massage and a fancy bottle of bubbly)

Wait, where are you going? I’m not finished with you! Over the next few days we’ll update all the photos, videos, stories that we couldn’t update due to lack of signal or had eye co-ordination. So stay tuned you lovely people!

For now though, thank you once again for coming along with us and helping us make it an incredible adventure!