Author Archives: Marianne

As promised, after hitting £1000, Patrick Looby, the youngest and quite frankly the most easily led member of the Looby clan, will be having both his legs waxed to celebrate reaching our target amount. The original plan was to book … Continue reading →

Grahame finished his run in a respectable 5 hours and 6 minutes. On the way, he had the crowd cheering his name and was fed jelly babies and lucozade. There were plenty of people waiting for him along the race … Continue reading →

Grahame resurfaced at mile 18 about 30mins ago. He says he is feeling fine and is really enjoying himself. Currently Mum, Marianne and Leah are at the 24ish mile mark waiting for him to pass there and so I will … Continue reading →

Grahame is currently pacing his way through the streets of London right now. He is etimated to be around the Deptford area around mile 7. As his supporting little sister, I will be off to mile 11ish in a bit … Continue reading →

After all of the preparations and the training. The night before the marathon has finally arrived. Grahame is very nervous, excited and probably a little sweaty already about his forthcoming run. The race starts for him at 9.45 in Shooter’s … Continue reading →

We have received some generous donations from two companies interested in Grahame’s attempt to run the marathon. They are two companies run by family close to Grahame and his long suffering girlfriend, Nicola.  We haven’t updated the total just yet, but … Continue reading →

Gearing up for the final few days of training, Grahame has been running his big smelly feet off in preparation. He completed his longest run yet, 18 miles yesterday, but quickly found he was running out of land! He ran … Continue reading →

Grahame had a good (meh) training session recently. His longest run yet. Grahame ran for two hours and thirty five minutes and did just over 14 miles. Maybe I speak for myself, but I know I can’t do anything for … Continue reading →

Grahame’s story was published in the Jersey Evening Post. See below for pics. The publicity has been a great boost for Grahame’s run. The more people we can show his ugly mug to, the more donations we can receive. Please … Continue reading →

Grahame had a lovely day yesterday pretending to be a marathon runner to the local newspaper who sent a photographer around to take shots of him. Thankfully, the photographer didn’t let him have it easy and ordered him to run … Continue reading →