Please meet our Mam, Clare Rose – we think she is a crazy old fool, but brilliant all rolled into one!
Ben Smith the amazing 401 Marathon challenge runner came to Aycliffe in February, and she joined him to run the full 26.2 miles, standing up for the anti bullying charities he is supporting.
On Easter Saturday in the middle of storm “Katie” she headed off with a small group of friends to Kielder for another marathon. This was not an ordinary marathon, for starters it was 26.5 miles not 26.2. It was also called the Dark Skies as it was run in the dark.
Was this enough for our Mam? No of course not, she volunteered at the last minute to guide a blind lady round the course. On Sunday 10th of April we found ourselves in Manchester for that city’s 40th birthday marathon. Mam ran it 10 minutes quicker than her last road marathon in a great time of 4.12.
We think our Mam is great – she doesn’t run for a club and she runs us round all of our hobbies and we have lots of them! Well done Mam from Harry, Daniel and George