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Author: Roger Jackson, Posted: Saturday, 19th May 2018, 09:00
Simon Aldridge has raised well over £3,000 for Muscular Dystrophy UK from his London Marathon run last month
Big-hearted Simon Aldridge raised over £3,300 from his London Marathon run last month – and he’s still counting.
When he got in touch with The Local Answer, he had collected £3,324 before adding: “It may go up slightly.”
Readers may remember that 59-year-old Aldridge, who was running his first London Marathon, was raising money for Muscular Dystrophy UK to help towards the search for a treatment and ultimately a cure for the muscle wasting disease.
He was inspired to do so by Cotswold School pupil John Dickson, the young teenager who has muscular dystrophy and whose family are near neighbours of Aldridge in Bledington, near Stow-on-the-Wold.
Before last month’s challenge around the capital, Aldridge, who runs at the weekends with Bledington Bantams, had never run farther than a half marathon
So how did he get he get on in London?
“My time was disappointingly slow due to a knee injury and the record-breaking heat,” he admitted “but I did get across the finishing line in five hours and 29 minutes.”
It may have been an hour slower than his target time but at least he still got round.
In the build-up to the race he said he was unlikely to run the London more than once.
So has he had any second thoughts?
“It was a fantastic day but I haven’t applied for next year,” he laughed.
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