The marathon will get under way at 09:00 BST on Sunday, with competitors in the half marathon setting off at 10:00 BST.<\/p>\n
Alex Reeves will be among the racers taking part in the shorter – but still not short – half marathon.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old is fundraising for the Bradford charity Gig Buddies which supports adults with learning disabilities and autism in the district to have a full and varied social life.<\/p>\n
“I am feeling a bit nervous, but excited at the same time. I did it last year and I was a lot less prepared,” he admits.<\/p>\n
“I got inspired by Jamie Jones Buchanan from Leeds Rhinos.<\/p>\n
“He was speaking at a work thing, basically saying you should always be trying to make a difference and I was like, ‘yes that is right, I am going to do that and I am going to try and raise some money’.”<\/p>\n
As part of his volunteer role, Alex has buddied up with Harry Bowness.<\/p>\n
Together, the pair go running, cycling, visiting the cinema or bowling.<\/p>\n
“It gives you a chance to meet new people and go out and and explore different things,” Harry says.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old will cheering on his buddy Alex from the roadside during the race.<\/p>\n
“I think he will smash it – I am chuffed,” he says.<\/p>\n
“The more fundraising we can get, the more it expands the activities for other people who struggle with day-to-day lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marathon will get under way at 09:00 BST on Sunday, with competitors in the half marathon setting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-949906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116548939858421118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949906","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=949906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}