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Grand Union Canal Solo - Mark Thornberry
Sep 2, 2017
Birmingham, UK
Sep 4, 2017
London, UK
Running ultras is Mark Thornberry’s way to raise funds for liver cancer researchA few months after his terminal liver cancer diagnosis Mark felt good enough to cover the 145 miles of the Grand Union Canal Race.He had trained for the challenge but couldn’t join on race day because of his surgery, so he decided to run it some months later, individually! But he wasn’t on his own! Mark wrote on his blog:“I now intend to run the route as my own personal ‘race’ – but I don’t have the fitness to do this ‘in one’ (and can’t hang about for...


