My 2007 Great North Run

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This is completely off topic, and it’s a cross-post from my other blog, but hey, this is my website and I can do what I want!

Check out some images of the event on the photo tab at the top of the page.

The BUPA Great North Run is the world’s most popular half marathon road running event. Participants run between Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields. The run was devised by former Olympic 10,000 m bronze medallist and BBC Sport commentator Brendan Foster. Foster was inspired after running in the Round the Bays Race in New Zealand in 1979.

The first ever Great North Run was staged on the 28 June 1981, when 12,000 runners participated. By 2003, the number of participants had risen to 47,000. For the first year it was advertised as a local fun run; twenty years on it has become one of the biggest running events in the world.

On 30 September 2007, I raised around £500 ($1020) for my charity: Marie Cure Cancer Care. Marie Curie Nurses now care for around 50 per cent of all cancer patients who die at home. They work through the night or during the day to provide care for patients in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own home.

Also, apart from the research they undertake Marie Curie also have ten hospices across the UK; the largest number of hospice beds outside the NHS. The hospices offer specialist support in a relaxed, friendly and comfortable environment and no charge is ever made to patients or their families.

The BBC has a great interactive website about the event, including a timelapse video of the Great North Run route (requires Realplayer)