Hamilton neighbours raise thousands for foodbank with ultra marathon around the street
dailyrecord.co.ukNeighbours in a Hamilton estate completed an Easter Sunday ultra marathon.Residents undertook the mammoth challenge to raise funds for Hamilton District Foodbank.The idea for the neighbourhood event came from Joanne Carroll, of Philips Wynd, whose husband Brian should have been taking part in the Manchester marathon on April 5, which was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.Instead, Brian took it upon himself to run around the street loop of 400m a total of 105 times to notch up the 26.6 miles.His efforts led to Joanne contacting her neighbours via their estate WhatsApp group to ask who would be willing to take part in doing loops of the street in a bid to complete an ultra marathon.Mum Joanne organised a time table of 30-minute slots
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