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London Marathon 2010

ACE has been awarded a place for a runner in the Virgin London Marathon 2010. We intend to use this opportunity to raise a considerable amount for our schools through sponsorship.

Our runner will be Polly Jacobs, who is a doctor and lives in Salisbury. She is a niece of ACE trustee, Phil Budden.

Polly is a keen runner who has run the London Marathon before. She is seen here at the 2009 London Marathon with her brother, Julian, who also competed.

Polly clocked 3 hours and 50 minutes which is 5 minutes outside the time for her to get an automatic entry for 2010.

Julian was lucky in the ballot for a place in 2010 but Polly was not. Now that ACE has given Polly its allocated place, they will both be competing again.

Please sponsor Polly by clicking here.

The event takes place on Sunday 25th April 2010.

On 1st December, Polly reported "Over 25 miles completed last week with 11 very cold, wet and muddy miles done in the pouring rain on Sunday."

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On 2nd February, Polly wrote

"Training going well although quite a challenge as 7 weeks ago all three of my running partners announced they were pregnant in the space of a week and aren't running now so doing the 2-3 hours runs is requiring a lot more motivation and isn't like as enjoyable without the company.

I went to the athletics club last week to do a track session which was great although I thought I was going to vomit on the way home...gruelling would be an understatement!

I have also joined the gym as running at night on my own is not ideal! Am doing lots of swimming and some cycling cross training to try and avoid injury!"

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