Why I am fundraising for Parkinson's UK
Conor and Nick are both running a Half Marathon, so in total a marathon (sort of). While this is a great challenge for us we are also doing it to raise contributions for Parkinsons UK.
Why Parkinsons? Matt (Conor’s Dad, Nick’s Brother) was diagnosed with early on-set Parkinsons about a year ago. He’s fit and well, and managing it, but with daunting challenges ahead. So please be (very) generous, all money raised will help fund breakthroughs and help support people facing present and future challenges from the Parkinson's community.
Please add a comment, If your stuck you can obviously just write ‘Good Luck’, but we would also love to see some target times or predictions, joint or individual. We'll see who gets the closest.
Why the half marathon?, well we’ve both had individual challenges over the years, which has limited training outputs, all resolved now. A half mararthon seemed liked a good target, hopefully without any long term damage! . Conor to get back to his best, and hopefully on the way to a full marathon, and Nick to banish the memory of his last effort.
For benchmark,
Conor has a 3hr 28m full marathon, and is a sub 39min 10k runner. Both from a few years ago, and has just got back training.
Nick has a 4hr 54m marathon 21 years ago, and a recent sub 44min effort for 10k, but is benefiting from ‘new’ runner improvements.
And yes the race is on!
