A great story...

Back again... just been reading a great article in today's NZ Herald that I wanted to share...

Findlay Young is a young Briton who has twice beaten thyroid cancer and is now aiming to run 24 half-marathons in 24 days, all over the world. He's called it the Great World Run and is doing it to not only honour other cancer patients but to raise funds for British cancer research. So far he has raised 25,000 Pounds, but his target total is 100,000 Pounds.

He has already completed runs in Iceland, Brazil (2), NY, Chicago, Dallas, LA, Seattle and Alaska (3) in the past two weeks. About now he should be completing his 12th, in Auckland around the waterfront where I have often run myself. From there he goes to Aust (4), Singapore, India (2) Dubai, Ethiopia, Greece and the Netherlands. His final one will be in Britain where he hopes to complete the worlds largest Half, the Great North Run, on Oct 1st.

He has twice had to run two in one day so far to meet the goal and suffered from sun stroke in Rio before being plunged into rain in the US and then the cold of Alaska! Add to that jet-lag, time differences, sleep deprevation and blisters!

Oh and one year after he was cleared of the cancer the first time, he celebrated by running four Halfs in one day - one each in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England! When it returned last year, he had surgery to remove his thyroid gland altogether.

I think this is a fantastic effort and it is so nice to read something positive like this in the paper, rather than the constant doom and gloom! Best of luck to him!