{"id":83886,"date":"2025-05-08T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83886\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:20:16","slug":"listen-to-your-body-it-will-tell-you-everything-dudleys-purple-prince-urges-to-take-care-of-your-body-following-birmingham-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/83886\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Listen to your body, it will tell you everything’ – Dudley’s ‘Purple Prince’ urges to take care of your body following Birmingham run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Sinclair, from Dudley<\/a>, also known as the ‘Purple Prince’, 59, is well known in the Dudley running circuit – often being seen in his iconic purple Prince outfit.<\/p>\n

An avid runner, Mark has run around 32 park runs<\/a> across the Black Country and West Midlands, as well as nine races in 2024 to raise funds and awareness for the charity, Prostate UK.<\/p>\n

Now, he has laced up his shoes again as he donned his iconic outfits to take part in the AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run 2025<\/a>, on Saturday, May 3, all to raise awareness for Prostate Cancer UK and the cardiac rehabilitation programme Action Heart.<\/p>\n

\"PurplePurple Prince Mark Sinclair also ran the Dudley Park Run at the Dell stadium<\/p>\n

Talking about taking part in the run this year, Mark said: “It was a buzzing atmosphere this year, it was a great run. Everyone was helping each other, even the runners were egging each other on.<\/p>\n

“The crowd in Birmingham is really amazing, they were shouting ‘Prince’ to me, a few tried to get selfies and videos, but that’s hard to do when you’re running.”<\/p>\n

Mark returned to the run this year after suffering from a mild heart attack that he initially thought was a chest infection – he now campaigns for people to ‘listen to their bodies’, and get checked if they have concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said: “I had actually been running for a few weeks in October and November with what I thought was a chest infection. I kept having breathing issues while I was running.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"FunMark bounced back following a minor heart attack that he initially thought was a chest infection. He now campaigns for people to ‘listen to their bodies’. <\/p>\n

“I knew something wasn’t right. So when I went to Russell’s Hall Hospital, I was told that from my blood\/troponin test that I had actually had a mild heart attack.<\/p>\n

“I had a stent fitted, but it really taught me to listen to my body. I’m here campaigning for funds, yeah, but I really want to promote listening to your body. It will tell you if something is wrong.”<\/p>\n

The runner has so far raised over \u00a31,400 for both charities, however, he said that he wants to focus more on raising awareness over ‘listening to your body’.<\/p>\n

He said: “The money is great. But I really want to get it out there to listen to your body.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“A heart attack isn’t the end of taking care of yourself, you can get back out there, as long as you listen to your body, it will tell you everything.”<\/p>\n

To donate to ‘Purple Prince’s’ fundraiser, visit\u00a0https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/royal-parks-half-marathon-2024-57809<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Sinclair, from Dudley, also known as the ‘Purple Prince’, 59, is well known in the Dudley running…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1354,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-83886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dudley","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114470770421678392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}