Updated on Apr 1st 2012 at 4:51 PM from the JustGiving API

Did it ... 2:07 I think ... Jo may have beaten me as she started behind me but kept going! I struggled with a bit of a foot malfunction ... see the pictures ..

Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

UPDATE: Jo (my wife and Micks daughter) is running with me! If you are one of Jo's friends you have come to the right place as we're making it simple by just have this one page for the both of us.

I was going to run the Reading half marathon with some mates from work just to get fit. We'd talked together about if and who we might raise money for but nothing had been decided ... And then it became personal for me in January when my father-in-law died very suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack. The loss is accute as he was such a generaous and kind man who sparkled with his grandchildren, see the photo of him taken by one of his grandchildren.

Every little helps ... please give what you can.

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