Marathon man

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Elm Road resident David Pitron is facing the challenge of a lifetime as he gears up to run the London Marathon in under 4 hours.

David, 39, ditched the pizza takeaway, lost 2.5 stones, had a month without alcohol and put on his running shoes in preparation for running 26.2 miles in the London Marathon to raise £10,000 for “Hope for Children” on April 22^nd

 "I managed to get a place on the London Marathon –. I hope to raise money for my target but need the help of the people of Penn & Tyler’s Green!”

 “The hardest time for training was the long dark nights and cold mornings; I have run more than 450 miles around the streets of Penn in my training so far! I have to admit it is taking a fair amount of will power to drag myself out of bed at 5.30am to fit in a run before work, but I feel good about it once I have finished!”

“My chosen charity is Hope for Children –which caught my imagination as a charity because I can raise money for a specific childrens project in Uganda, it’s not just sending in a cheque to a big name charity, this fundraising means that I will see exactly what every penny of the donations I receive will be spent on. “ "Everyone I have spoken to so far has been really supportive and very generous. I aim to raise over £10,000 and so far I have raised around £7,000 so I still have a long way to go. If you are able to sponsor David by visiting his online fundraising page on www.justgiving.com/davidpitron

David has run the marathon 3 times before, London in 2001 (4 hrs 55mins) where he raised over £2500 for Health Unlimited and 2003(4 hrs 56 mins) where he raised over £2500 for The British Lung Foundation; and Canberra in 2008 (4hrs 09 mins)

Postscript

David successfully entered a ballot to take part in the Olympic Park Run- a 5 mile run, so will be one of the first 5000 people to run into and around the Olympic stadium on 31^st March and one of the first people to cross the Olympic athletics finishing line; he has also been selected as an Olympic torchbearer -so will be running with the torch on 1^st July 2012!