By Hilary Casey Community Resource Worker

On Thursday the 9th to Friday the 10th of December, I will be completing a challenge to raise funds for NCBI. The aim of the challenge is to run a marathon over 24 hours while staying in work in NCBI Head office in Drumcondra. I will run a mile on the hour every hour for 24hours with a little extra on the last hour to make up a marathon distance of 26.2 miles. It will take place on a treadmill with a back up tread mill just in case!

Closer to the event I will be setting up a page on My Charity.ie and would welcome sponsorship however big or small for NCBI. I am looking for anyone who would like to run, walk or cycle part of this challenge with me. If you would like to take part you can run walk or cycle for a mile or more than a mile if you wish or if not a mile take part by running, walking or cycling 2 minutes 40 seconds, 2.4 miles or even 2 hours 40 minutes whatever you feel you would be able or like to do but to do so you must make a donation to NCBI!

I already have a number of individuals who have asked to run with me for a couple of the miles over the 24 hour period and I have a 24 hour time sheet up and running so if you feel you would like to join me please let me know and I will be delighted to put your name down on a slot. If you are interested you can email me at hilary.casey@ncbi.ie or call me in head office, 01 8307033 and I would be thrilled to speak to you!

I will be starting in the afternoon on Thursday 9th and finishing the following afternoon. So if you are around in head office over these two days your support would be greatly appreciated.