Speaking before taking on the run, Flatt, who has undertaken countless fundraising challenges, said: “You can get so much joy out of life regardless of the challenges you may face.<\/p>\n
“There’s so much love and friendship in this community. You’ve got to embrace life and just enjoy it.”<\/p>\n
Jo Coker, from the MND Association, described the atmosphere as “absolutely electric”.<\/p>\n
She said 541 runners raised funds for the charity.<\/p>\n
“This was a little known disease five years ago,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Rob [Burrow] made a huge difference to the awareness levels and there are people out there who are really carrying that forward.”<\/p>\n
She said money raised not only went towards research and treatment but also to supporting families living with MND.<\/p>\n
“Over \u00a34m will go towards to help them with things like housing adaptations, equipment they might need but also for those around them.”<\/p>\n
About 45,000 people have taken part in the marathon and a half marathon since the event began.<\/p>\n
This year, about 5,000 runners are thought to have taken part, raising funds for various charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking before taking on the run, Flatt, who has undertaken countless fundraising challenges, said: “You can get so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-950871","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\/116551468315820817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950871","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=950871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}