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In a video shared on the London Marathon’s Instagram page, Harry praised runners for offering a “lifesaver” to other vulnerable people amid the pandemic by raising the budget for charities.
The Duke, who is also the head of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, said: “Unfortunately, this year it is not imaginable for everyone to run in combination on the streets of London as a component of the Virgin Money London Marathon 2020.
“By contrast, 45,000 runners from across the UK and 109 countries around the world will race the 40th race, in their own way, traveling the 26. 2 miles, in their own communities.
?️ “Thank you all, the ordinary spirit of the London Marathon will continue to shine all over the world. “A special message from the Duke of Sussex to the other 45,000 people who will participate in the London Virgin Money Marathon on Sunday,❤️ #LondonMarathon – The40thRace
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“Thanks to all of you, the ordinary spirit of the London Marathon will continue to shine all over the world.
“While we are not in combination in person, we are in combination with spirit, and the tenacity of runners around the world reminds us of our strength and sense of the network in those difficult times.
“I also want to thank you for everything you have done to so many charities that want our help more than ever.
“You provide a lifeline, so when you cross the end line, anywhere in the world. “
Meanwhile, 10 men who have run each and every marathon in London since the beginning in 1981 have shared their opinion on why Sunday’s 40th occasion will be a very different experience.
While elite athletes will compete in central London, everyone else will take their own 26. 2-mile address and use the official app to discover they’ve covered the distance.
It’s the birthday party the Ever Presents were waiting for for the special race, but they all decided to race anyway.
Terry Macey, 72, a lawyer whose house and are near the starting line in Blackheath, south-east London, said: “I can’t wait to be there. We’ve been doing other business for 39 years, so why not change??
“I think it’s a very positive and wonderful solution. “
The youngest and of all time is Chris Finill, 61, from Cranleigh, Surrey, who ran 37 out of 39 in less than 3 hours.
He said Sunday’s race would mean the same even if he ran near Dunsfold Airfield, which is part of the Rutland Group and is occasionally used to film Top Gear, rather than in central London.
Finill said: “Many of those marathons merge when you run them since 1981.
“It can be difficult to express the years, however, this year’s marathon will be as vital as the others, perhaps more, because it took a position in very complicated circumstances. “
Bill O’Connor, 75, who will run near his home in North Finchley, north London, said: They have worked it. I’m very satisfied with that. “
O’Connor, an instructor at Queens Park Community School in north-west London, added: “I think they did the right thing. He kept the series saying “nothing happened this year. “
David Walker, 75, is eager to share the marathon with his circle of relatives and expects his 4 grandchildren Rosie, 11, Sam, 8, Olive, 7 and Flora, 3, to sign him up to cross the baseline. near his home in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
Mr. Walker, an independent education consultant, is waiting for Jamie’s youth, John and Hannah and members of their local racial group.
“Having really will help me get ahead,” he said, adding that his wife, Lin, was “my rock for 40 years. “
The greatest of all time, Ken Jones, 87, will travel the distance around his hometown of Strabane, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, with his daughter Heather and says he “feels good. “
Charles “Len” Cousens, 78, of Lowestoft, Suffolk, who retired as a shrink from lockdown, said he will miss the crowd of spectators.
“There are other people who have a drink in a pub and I say, “Give me a drop, ” I take a sip of beer and run.
“The audience loves it. “
Roger Low, 76, from Camden Town, north London, who works part-time in investor relations, said: “It would have been a laugh to pass and have all those followers on the road to do it on our own. I’m sure we’re all going through missing that.
“I’m sure everyone is disappointed that it’s virtual.
“I understand why and I wouldn’t have gone there with another 40, 000 people and let them breathe at me. “
Dr Malcolm ‘Mac’ Speake, 78, a former IPswich GP, said: “The environment will be very different. There will be no adrenaline rush. “
“When you’re in London, there’s someone who’s going at your own pace, so you go with them for a few miles, find out who they are, what they’re doing and who they’re running for. “
Jeff Aston, 73, a retired IT consultant, plans to take two one-mile laps before completing the race at Cardiff’s City Hospice.
He is raising for the hospice that treated his wife Val, who died in 2016.
“Anyway, I do everything on my own, so that just adds a little more to what I’m doing,” he says.
“I can’t wait to get there.
“There will be more than I get in London because I don’t know anyone. “
But retired director Mike Peace, 70, of Lustleigh, near Exeter, Devon, said he would have a hard time seeing the race around Dartmoor as the 40th London Marathon.
“The one who organized a virtual marathon, all their merit.
“I thank you for that, but to call it the 40th London, I struggle with that. This looks like the 40th of a sequence.
“I’ll treat it on October 4th as a long-distance race. I think I’ll like it. “
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