On New Year's Eve my lovely cousin Rebecca and I decided that this would be the year that we would run a marathon, and we shook hands on it so there was no getting out of it! I didn't realise how hard training in the desert heat with a lung full of dust on every breath would be, so please sponsor me for the pain of training if not for the pain of the 26 miles.

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