Jack Hewitt, faced with the longest run so far in his ‘Eight for a Mate!’ series of marathons in Australia, took it all in his stride earlier today.
“That was quite hard! 44.67 km and 4:48 of running. Feeling pretty tired! But I’m happy that it is done”, he emailed us after completing the Melrose Great Ocean Road Marathon in the state of Victoria this morning.
“It was spectacular, and I tried my best to enjoy that!”
Jack, a Brit who has been living in Oz since the beginning of last year, is running his eight marathons – all in the space of one year – for the ME Association and ME/CFS Australia.
The next one will be in Queensland on 1st June – winding up the series with an event in Canberra in November. Before today, he had already completed marathons in Tasmania and South Australia.
He’s taken on this year-long challenge because he was utterly shocked by the condition in which he found his best friend from university, Freddie Denison-Smith, when he returned to Britain to pay him a visit in June last year.
Photos show Jack with his finisher's medal, the route of the Great Ocean Road Marathon and a read-out of the 448m elevations he had to climb, which all added up to more work on the day!
Freddie has very severe ME and is receiving round-the-clock nursing care at his parents' home in Buckinghamshire.
Photos show Jack with his Great Ocean Run medal, today’s marathon route and a read-out of today’s elevations which totalled 448m – all of which added to the strain of the event.
If you would like to donate to Jack’s fundraiser for the MEA, please visit:
Jack's running Eight for a Mate!
Fundraising for ME Association
If you’d rather donate to our Australian friends, please visit:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/mecfsmarathonsaus
Tony Britton
Senior Fundraising Volunteer, The ME Association
tony.britton@meassociation.org.uk Mob: 07393 805566
