'A review by Jennifer'

(Chief Executive ME North East)

Many of our runners did race speeds and got to the finish line in less than 2 hours – fantastic. I had no illusions of such an achievement. I completed the event with my sister Barbara – we agreed we would “walk” rather than run. Whilst “training” I had attempted to break into a jog but my body did not like this one bit. We made it in 3hrs 33 minutes – good going for us.
The start was brilliant – charged with energy and enthusiasm. It is true to say you need to be there to “feel it”. – it was tremendous, amazing and truly special.

The buzz, the camaraderie, the sheer size of the event and the seas of people, it was just overwhelming.. Emotional too – we gave a minutes silence to reflect on why we were there and who we were running for and the band played “abide with ME” – there wasn’t a dry eye on the road. This made the start even more magical – for a brief second I thought I could run it (silly girl). There was lots of support along the way – some dips when the muscles were shouting – but the crowd kept you going. The last mile was the hardest – you knew you were on the last leg but the road seemed endless – but just so wonderful to cross the finish line.

Barbara and I will do it again next year and we will be joined by several other members of our family – why not join us – if we can do it you can too. Interested??

Give us a call. You’ll need to be quick as we have a limited number of places and the list is growing already!

Jennifer