Relay JOGGers on course to break end-to-end record
A TEAM of 12 runners are due to arrive at Land’s End today (Sunday) in a bid to beat the Guinness World Record for a relay run from John O’Groats.
The runners set off from the famous Caithness landmark on Tuesday and aimed to complete the 923-mile trip in fewer than six days. They not only want get into the record books but raise £50,000 for the Niemann-Pick Foundation – a children’s Alzheimer’s charity. The money would fund two or three full- time medical researchers for two years at Oxford and Cardiff universities.
To break the record, each person has to keep a pace of around 12 kilometres an hour and cover two-thirds of a marathon every day.
Niemann-Pick is a relatively unknown disease which affects around 100 children in the UK each year and is a terminal neuro-degenerative disease.
The team from the Tunbridge Wells area in Kent were backed by sports personalities such as Lord Coe, Tim Henman and Lawrence Dallaglio, and TV presenter Clare Balding.
