Mark Allison (Run Geordie Run)
In the Summer of 2007, Mark Allison ran 874 miles (1,407 km) from John O'Groats to Lands End in 37 days raising £34,108 for St Benedict's Hospice (Charity No. 1019410) in the UK. This Hospice cared for his mother during her final days battling lung cancer. Continuing to repay the debt of gratitude to the Hospice in May - August 2011 he ran from California to New York in 100 days — a distance of approx. 3100 miles which saw him run an average daily mileage of 31 miles.
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“And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:12.
Of Jesus.
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
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