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On Tuesday 23rd April 2019 Nick Steele and Rob Jackson will set off from the Haematology Dept of the City Hospital, Nottingham and will be running to the ExCel Centre, London to register for the London Marathon. We will arrive at the ExCel Centre on Saturday 27th April then run the London Marathon on Sunday 28th April. The running route to London is 143 miles! That will be over a marathon a day for five days followed by the London Marathon!

We will be joined by friends and family for various sections of this event to provide company and support. Our team name is the Haemoglobin Trotters and if we manage to figure it out you can follow our challenge on social media using #bloodwise170.

We are taking on this challenge to raise as much money as possible for Bloodwise so a cure can be found for this vile form of cancer as soon as possible.

Nick is taking on this challenge in memory of his niece, Rebecca Holmes, who lost her battle to Lymphoma in 2014. Rebecca was 39 years old and was married with a five year old son. When Rebecca was given her terminal diagnosis she set a number of goals one of which was to be able to walk her son to school on his first day at primary school. She achieved this goal but lost her brave valiant fight a few short weeks later. 

Rob is taking on the challenge partly because of the beer he had when talking to Nick, but mostly because his wife, Anne, has benefitted from the incredible advances in treatment in recent years. She is currently in remission for the second time from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that has a high chance relapsing. Anne was treated in the Royal Marsden in London in 2001 and in City Hospital Nottingham in 2010. It is not overstating it to say that the joy Anne brings to so many lives has been made possible by advances in treatment for blood cancers.

This is obviously a cause very close to our hearts and we want to raise as much money as possible which is why we have set such a physically and mentally challenging 'adventure'! This will push us both to the limits of our endurance! 

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