'rob Will Be With Me Throughout London Marathon'

Lindsey Burrow says her precocious hubby Rob "will beryllium pinch maine throughout" erstwhile she runs nan London Marathon connected Sunday.

Mother-of-three Burrow, 42, is moving successful representation of erstwhile rugby convention awesome Rob, who died successful June 2024 aft being diagnosed pinch centrifugal neurone illness (MND) successful 2019.

She will besides tally nan Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon 2 weeks later to proceed raising money for nan Leeds Rhinos Foundation and Leeds Hospitals Charity.

"He will beryllium successful tone pinch maine passim nan full run, successful my caput saying 'come connected tally faster, you tin do this'," Burrow told BBC Yorkshire.

"As I lace up my trainers I'll decidedly beryllium reasoning of Rob and nan MND community. That is yet why I americium moving nan race, to make Rob proud."

Rob's MND test came 2 years aft he retired from a stellar 17-year profession astatine Leeds Rhinos, during which he made almost 500 appearances and won 13 trophies.

With nan thief of erstwhile team-mate and adjacent friend Kevin Sinfield, they raised much than £15 cardinal for MND charities arsenic Rob battled nan illness himself. Both men were awarded CBEs successful nan 2024 New Year Honours.

"Rob will will beryllium astatine nan forefront of my mind. It will beryllium affectional but I'm looking guardant to it," said Burrow, who will tally nan 26.2 miles alongside her relative Mark.

The charismatic kindness of nan twelvemonth for nan 45th version of nan London Marathon is Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Pancreatic Cancer is nan deadliest communal crab - much than half of group successful nan UK who are diagnosed dice wrong conscionable 3 months.

Thousands of group will beryllium moving and raising money for nan charity, which is aiming to cod £2m to supply captious early discovery tests.

Earlier successful April, 797 pairs of moving shoes, donated by survivors, supporters and families affected by pancreatic cancer, were displayed connected nan banks of nan River Thames successful London.

Among those moving connected Sunday will beryllium Jo Curtis, who mislaid her husband, Stewart, to pancreatic cancer. Stewart, who had been training for nan marathon erstwhile he was diagnosed, underwent successful room but nan crab returned a twelvemonth later.

"A cardinal point for maine has been that we can't person gone done this for nary affirmative to travel from it. I kept thinking, 'What tin I do?' There was a lightbulb infinitesimal wherever I thought, 'I tin do nan marathon for him'," Curtis told BBC Sport.

"My dream is that collectively each of america who are doing it connected nan time raise a important magnitude of consciousness for nan charity, hopefully a immense magnitude of money, and that tin prolong nan life of a dad, a mum, a sister and let them much clip pinch their family."

"Stubborn to a fault... A batch of grit and determination... Just dad".

That's really Dave Heeley's daughters Grace, Georgie-Lee and Dannie picture their begetter arsenic they hole to subordinate him for his 17th and last London Marathon.

Widely known arsenic 'Blind Dave', nan 67-year-old from West Bromwich first ran nan London Marathon successful 2002 and has embarked connected respective bonzer beingness challenges to raise money for kindness contempt being diagnosed pinch retinitis pigmentosa astatine nan property of 10.

Among his achievements, Heeley became nan first unsighted personification to tally 7 marathons crossed 7 continents successful 7 days successful 2008. In 2011, he ran nan magnitude of nan UK, completing 10 marathons successful 10 days from John O'Groats to Land's End.

"I asked nan question, 'Why me? What person I done to merit this?' Then I went connected a spot of a travel and thought, 'You cognize what kid, life is for living'. Let's spell retired location and bask it," Heeley told BBC Sport.

"Don't interest astir what you cannot do. Concentrate your efforts connected what you tin do and you will achieve."

Heeley, raising money for his nine West Brom's Albion Foundation, said moving pinch his daughters connected Sunday will beryllium "the champion representation of all" aft they persuaded him to tally 1 past London Marathon having undergone 2 knee replacements.

Flora Turnbull will proceed to dispersed consciousness of prostate crab aft losing her father, erstwhile BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull, to nan illness successful 2022.

The number of prostate crab referrals wrong nan NHS reached a grounds precocious a twelvemonth aft Bill's death, pursuing his activity to raise consciousness of nan disease.

His test coincided pinch that of character Stephen Fry, pinch their willingness to speak astir prostate crab termed nan 'Turnbull and Fry effect' by NHS England.

On continuing nan bequest of her begetter by moving nan marathon for Prostate Cancer UK, Turnbull, 33, said: "After his death, we arsenic a family were overwhelmed by nan outpouring of emotion and acknowledgment from group crossed nan nation, and peculiarly those men who were inspired to study much astir their ain prostate crab consequence and speak to their GP.

"But location is still activity to beryllium done. I want to guarantee that everyone tin support their dads, partners, brothers, sons, grandads, uncles and friends astir arsenic agelong arsenic possible."