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After my disastrous 2011 Brighton Marathon, collapsing at mile 24 in the heat, being walked for 2 miles by club mates and to add insult to injury was snapped being overtaken by a toilet, I vowed not to run this year! As the months have passed and everyone has started to train for the marathon I started to get itchy feet and feel I have unfinished business and a score to settle, and may be even attempt to break the elusive 3 hours.

  

I have accepted a late place on the University of Sussex team to raise much needed funds for The Bhopal Medical Appeal, a small Brighton based charity doing great work in India.

 

In 1984 a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas. None of the six safety systems designed to contain such a leak were operational, allowing the gas to spread throughout the city of Bhopal. Half a million people were exposed to the gas and 25,000 have died to date as a result of their exposure. More than 120,000 people still suffer from ailments caused by the accident and the subsequent pollution at the plant site. To find out more about the charity and their work please visit: http://www.bhopal.org/

 

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So please dig deep and donate now.