1 May 2020
Rising to the challenge Pictured is 10-year old Olivia, daughter of Theatre Staff Nurse, Laura McGregor.
A pair of teachers who ran a marathon around their six metre garden have helped raise thousands of pounds for SaTH Charity.
based around the number 2.6 or 26 and collect donations.
Liam, Head of PE at the Priory School in Shrewsbury, and housemate Dan, who Dan Pritchard and Liam Deery’s incredible teaches Maths at the Marches School in feat was the highlight of a weekend of Oswestry, were initially planning to run a activity as fundraisers sought to fill the marathon between them around their tiny charity gap left by the postponement of garden. But as the donations poured in, this year’s London Marathon. they announced that if they raised over £1,000, they would do a marathon each. Others chose to cycle, swim, or do their The pair have now collected over £3,000. own take on a ‘marathon’ in support of our teams. The epic challenge took them nine and a half hours to complete. After the Marathon, which should have taken place on Sunday, was delayed Liam said: “We set a challenge for the because of the coronavirus outbreak, a students at the Priory to raise as much fundraising replacement – the 2.6 money as they could for charity because Challenge – was set up. of the London Marathon being postponed, and as part of that, Dan and I were The idea was to undertake a challenge
planning to do a half marathon each. But as more money came in, we thought what better way to inspire the students than by trying to raise over £1,000 and doing a marathon each. “We were struggling with motion sickness for the first 16 miles because we were turning around so soften. We had a table set up for drinks and energy gels and Dan’s girlfriend was reading out comments from social media, so we had a lot of support. “If we had done it individually, I don’t think we would have made it, but each of us struggled at different points and kept each other going.”
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