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To run 26.2 miles in one sense is a total waste of time, yes it is good to train and feel fit and maybe that is enough. However it is a long way and people speak about ‘hitting the wall’ and feeling like giving up. So what keeps them going? For every individual it is probably different –

I had a great run doing the Strathearn Marathon – never feeling close to hitting any wall and totally uplifted by the event. I am not the fastest – and as it was a small select group of entrants - I consequently ran through miles of countryside on my own –with just sheep to talk to. It would have been easy to go home.

There is a man I know who as a young adult committed a crime and was subject to what is known as ’Street justice’ in another country – where the people in the street take it into their own hands to punish someone sometimes to the point of death. He was ‘lucky’, survived but with the loss of his legs from the upper thighs down. He now walks with artificial legs and crutches –and he lives. In a country where there are no benefits for disabled people his only real source of income is to sit in the dust at traffic jams in a large city, and beg. He is one of the people the Imbaseni Trust is there for – giving a disabled man a job, giving him dignity. In times of joy and difficulty that same man cared for me and my family –

He is just one of many people who I have met who live life to the full in face of adversity and who yesterday inspired me to keep going.

Graham Wilson has given so much for this man and many more –and now he too faces his own adversity –yesterday he was there cheering me on through the final miles –

26.2 miles on quiet Strathearn roads became not so much a challenge but a way of trying to give something back to these folk who have inspired me in life –a huge thank you to all of you who choose to support this effort.