Hi everyone! As you can see, I managed the Leeds Half Marathon and thoroughly enjoyed it! My chip time was 1 hour 46 minutes and 08 seconds, which put me in 959th place out of 3800 runners - not bad for my first race! I'm also pretty pleased with my time in the Jane Tomlinson 10k Race For All. After a chaotic start (11000 people running through Leeds City Centre is completely mental!!! I was literally jumping over street benches and litter bins!), I settled into the race at about the 3k mark and went on to finish in 46 minutes and 2 seconds, which put me in 376th place overall, and 66th in my catagory!

I'd like to thank everybody who has sponsored me on this page, and say an extra big thank you to my cousin, Daniel Waite, and all his friends and work mates, who have added a whopping extra £178.16 to the fund. Awesome effort, and massively appreciated.

I'm also running the Dublin Marathon in October (you are right, Rob - never do anything by halves!), so if you didn't manage to sponsor me for the Half Marathon or Jane Tomlinson 10k, please consider sponsoring me for this. You can donate as little as £2 on this page, which will be very gratefully received, or just give anything less to me and I'll make sure it gets to Cancer Research UK.

Cancer Research UK is the largest single funder of cancer research in the UK. Their work has saved millions of lives in the UK and across the world and they spend around £300 million on research every year funding over 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses. With your help, they can continue to make a difference to the lives of many people affected by cancer. Every pound makes a difference Here are some examples how your donation can help:

£15 could pay for a lab coat to protect a scientist from harmful chemicals, and their experiments from contamination.

£182 could buy 1,500 plastic petri dishes. They're an essential resource for thousands of scientists who are working hard to understand cancer.

£300 could enable one of our senior research nurses to treat and monitor a patient on a clinical trial for around two days.

£528 could buy 20,000 glass slides for studying cells and tumour samples in detail under a microscope.

£1,050 could fund around 4 microarrays - powerful pieces of gene technology that allow scientists to compare how active different genes are in cancer cells and healthy cells.

£5,800 could cover three week's running costs for a large-scale clinical trial testing whether a drug called celecoxib - similar to ibuprofen - can help to prevent bladder cancer from coming back after treatment.

Cancer Research UK's work has contributed to the improvement of survival rates and quality of life for cancer patients.

The overall cancer death rate has fallen by 10 per cent over the last decade.

Almost two out of three women with breast cancer now survive beyond 20 years.

Half of people diagnosed with cancer now survive for more than five years.

More than 95 per cent of men with testicular cancer are now successfully treated.

More than seven out of ten children with cancer are now successfully treated.

Whatever you give, if you’re a UK taxpayer, Justgiving makes sure 25% in Gift Aid, plus a 3% supplement, are added to your donation, so please sponsor me now!

Thanks again for your support,

Marcus x