(over 50lbs) I raised £600.00 for Macmillan Cancer Support.I completed the Great North in 2010 in 2:37.I am still running and entered into this year’s Great North Run. I have never been a runner in the past, I have small leg defect (one leg smaller

For years and years I had watched the Great North Run and London Marathon on TV – quite envious of the runners taking part, wishing I too could one day do the same! I have been a type 1 diabetic for 20 years and although it is well controlled I felt

in 2010 and then the Great North Run and then the Birmingham Half-Marathon and so it goes on. Through the year I called a barn dance! That was crazy. Packed shopping bags in Morrisons begged and cajoled. This year I have been injured - a trapped nerve

and completely shattered all I could think about was doing it again. I want to get to £10,000 I told my wife. Well, twelve months on I am getting closer.Since the London Marathon 2010 I have completed the Great North Run again, and I went to mallorca last October

.I decided to enter the Great North Run in 2009 to raise funds for Alzheimer's as my Dad had it so it was very personal to me. By then he was no longer with us but I knew he would be with me then as he loved the big events, he was there when I did the London