Voltage 26.2 miles from Greenwich to the mall, it is a career known not only for its world -class athletes but for the ordinary people who participate for extraordinary reasons.
Among them are inspiring people from southwest London who run with one purpose: whether to honor a loved one, support a vital charity or overcome personal obstacles.
His local tutor met some of the incredible participants of Twickenham, Clapham and beyond those who are preparing to tie and assume the challenge.
His stories are a will to come, compassion and the power of the community, and they are evidence that the London marathon is much more than simply crossing the finish line.
Thames Ditton Man to run the London Marathon in Memory of Dad and Aunt
A Surrey man will face the London Marathon TCS 2025 in memory of his father and aunt.
Dan Reeves, from Thames Ditton, will run the 26.2 miles on April 27 to raise money for pancreatic cancer in the United Kingdom.
Dan has chosen to run for the charity, 15 years after the challenge for pancreas cancer lasted, because the disease remains one of the most insufficient types of cancer here in the United Kingdom.
He lost both his father and aunt within a year apart and has defended more research in research and improved the results since then.
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Clapham brothers to address the London Marathon to raise money for the NSPCC
Two brothers from Clapham North are ready to direct the TCS London marathon to help raise money for the NSPCCC.
Joe and Megan Bricknell have decided to support the child beneficial organization while their mother Lily works for the NSPCCS project for childhood and her father Mark helps with the conversation pants campaign of the charity.
The couple are regular corridors, although while Megan has run a marathon before, this will be the first time Joe does.
Teenager who lost his finger due to rare cancer after mixtures to execute TCS London Marathon
Molly Gilmore, a 19 -year -old girl from Twickenham, prepares to direct the TCS London marathon on April 27 in support of Sarcomoma UK, a deeply personal cause for her.
With only 12 years, Molly underwent a surgery of alteration of life to remove her middle finger and part of her hand after being diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer.
For more than a year, doctors repeatedly fired a bulk in their hand like a Harleness cyst.
She said: “I play a lot of Netball, so I was used to packages and blows in my hands.
“But this bulge was much bigger and uncomfortable, and I could not hold a pen, so I went to see a header.
“They told me it was ganglion, and it would be fine.”
Worcester Park dad to run the London Marathon for daughter who died
Noel Bennett will face the London Marathon on April 27, to raise funds for meningitis now, marking his first marathon that he has postulated for charity.
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Nancy Bennett was only 15 years old when she died tragically in 2015, four days after feeling bad with what the family and the doctor believe it was a virus.
Noel, 58, told his local tutor: “He suddenly became ill, which was unusual for her, she really really deteriorated over a period of a couple of days.”
“The doctor thought it was an infection and for the third day he had deteriorated so much that we returned to & e, where he died in a matter of hours.
“Nancy was never sick, she never lost a school day, everything happened in four days, nobody knew what it was.”
