Hi Everyone!

Thanks for visiting www.thestretchmarket.com and my fundraising page.

Call it a mid life crisis! but when my 2nd daughter was born getting down  to the gym seemed to be a bit of a struggle so I decided to call time on the sunday morning football and took up a sport that I could fit around my family duties!

Running seemed to be as flexible as anything I considered so started doing a few miles a couple of times a week until my brother (Andy) came up with the great idea of running a marathon?

Well I must tell you that I could not have run 6 miles never mind 26 but with a certain amount of dedication and will power started to train for this monster event!

I have now done 3 marathons! New York twice and London aswell as a few Great North Runs. I will be training for Berlin and Chicago this year and the reason is to raise money,as much money, as I can for the great childrens charity-NSPCC.

If you have kids like me you will find it unbelievable that a charity like the NSPCC should exsist  at all in todays society. However it is a real concearn of mine that people out there take this for granted and abuse their own children.

It is a terrible shame that young children in this country suffer physical,mental and even sexual abuse at the hands of the people who should be caring for them so I urge you to just give what you can to this cause. To date I have raised over £17,000 from generous family members and friends,customers and suppliers. Please help if you can.

David Grice