Hi

Thanks for visiting our fundraising page!

We decided to do this event after Sarah felt inspired to take part when back in her home city visiting her mum last year when it was on.

We’ve not asked friends and family for sponsorship before, but given this is a huge reach for us, we wanted the extra motivation of a little good coming from our exertions. Given Sarah’s job in the Special Educational Needs sector supporting vulnerable children every day, as well as us both witnessing people we care about suffer from mental health issues it was easy agreeing Mind was a perfect deserving charity to support. Please look at their webpages to see the amazing activities they do -https://www.mind.org.uk/.

Although I've always enjoying sport, i've never been a runner - maybe put off by my dads exploits until agreeing to do this (although a friend helpfully said i must have good genes). Training is currently going ok if not getting any easier as we build up the distances. We are nervously optimistic we will be in good enough shape on the day to survive and complete the half marathon course.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by. I'll try and add some updates. We’ll add details of how you can follow us on the day nearer the event, and we’ll let you all know how we got on when we get our breath back after.

Huge thanks in advance for anything you can spare to support us and Mind. Small gifts really make a difference in such an under-resourced, and increasing needed area.

Gary and Sarah x