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Back from Australia and helping the NASS support group in Edinburgh.
NASS Edinburgh was presented with a £500 cheque from Sarah Andrew, the daughter of the current branch Secretary. She decided to enter the 10k run, which was held as part of the 21st May 2011 Edinburgh Marathon Festival. However, she did not participate on behalf of one of the event sponsored charities but one that is very important to her personally. Sarah wanted her contribution to go towards the support of the group that is working to help Ankylosing Spondylitis sufferers, in Edinburgh, which includes her father, Iain Macdonald and her Aunt, Jeanne Mason.
The day after she completed the run she sent a ‘thank you’ note to all of those who had agreed to sponsor her and here, following, is an extract from Sarah’s email of the 22nd May:
"Well I am still alive and really pleased with how well I went yesterday! I managed to run the 10km in 52min & 58 seconds and that is official!!! I am very happy and came in 288th out of 1500 people.
It was hard going, the rain stayed away but it was very very windy. It is quite a challenging route with 2 main hilly bits. I managed to keep to my word and I only walked for less than a minute up the steepest part of the hill (anti clockwise round the road of Arthur’s Seat). At this point I had already run 6kms. I had another ‘time inconvenience’ in that I needed to do a ‘Paula Radcliffe’ and have an unscheduled stop; about which I was quite annoyed but it was necessary to avoid an accident! On the plus side I did not have to queue as I just sort of hid behind a rock!
My legs are a bit on the stiff side today, but not to worry had a nice walk this afternoon. I am really pleased I managed to raise so much money just for pushing myself to run 10kms!!"
As well as the £500, raised for NASS, Sarah also got a $50 donation in Australia to the ‘flying doctor service’, from some of her friends that she made during the time she and her husband spent in Sydney as part of his recent 3 year secondment there.
