This weekend saw the return of the Reading Half Marathon for 2016, and over 10,000 runners taking on the 13.1 mile race. Starting at Green Park the route headed up and through Reading University, down into the town centre before heading out past Prospect Park and finishing along the A33 towards the Madejski Stadium. Last year’s Reading Half Marathon raised in excess of £1 million for local and national charities, and organisers hoped to top this during 2016. This year Support U was a local charity partner and had five runners in the race, all running for different reasons but all in aid of diversity, equality and Support U.
We had five runners in the race this year, Nick and Ryan got a little bit competitive out on the course. At times it was unsure if they were racing the clock or each other but both finished in a quick time of 1:43.23, laying down a time for those wanting to take part next year!
Everybody’s favourite Andrea was next home, in a time of 2:31.39 a great performance from the man who admitted the day before that he was going to be alright for the first half but not so sure about the second. Finally our fundraiser of the day Alyssa (Suffering with an ankle injury) crossed the line in 3:16.16. She was unaware of this whilst out on the course but she clinched the fundraising title from Andrea with the help of a £200 donation! Our fifth runner Rosie pulled out in the early stages due to medical reasons.
We are so proud of all our runners and a big thanks to all those who donated to our runners, so far between them they have raised £909.23!! It would be amazing to reach £1,000 to reward our superb runners, there is still time to donate to our runners through their Virgin Money Giving pages (Click on their names above).