Rain, hills and camels - Falmouth resident completes virtual London Marathon
By Joseph Macey 16th Sep 2021
By Joseph Macey 16th Sep 2021



On Sunday evening in the heavy rain Falmouth resident Lesley Garside completed the London Marathon - with a difference.
Lesley speed walked 26.2 miles from Lizard Village to her local pub in Falmouth The Seaview Inn.
She set off from the village at 10:30am and arrived in Falmouth around 4:30pm.
Lesley was due to take part in the London Marathon back in April.
However, under coronavirus restrictions, the organisers decided to make it a virtual event.
Lesley told Nub News:
"It was good, the weather was less than generous to me. The course I knew was going to be hilly and it certainly was, not flat like the London course. I had lots of different people coming to join me and cheer me on.
"Not many people got to do the marathon and experience camels, when I was doing the route via The Lizard I thought I could stop in via the camel farm and get a photo taken.
"I had my brother and his best friend on their bikes which made me feel quite safe because there is quite a lot of traffic on these back lanes and cars go quite fast so I don't know how comfortable I would have felt without that.
"I finished up at The Seaview Inn, had a couple of pints and got a taxi home."
All money raised will be going to the Anthony Nolan charity - an organisation that specialises in enabling people with blood cancer to survive by finding them stem cell donors.
So far she has raised over £6,000.
Lesley continued:
"All entrants in 2020 have been allowed to enter either October 2021, April 2022 or April 2023. I have expressed a preference to do it again in 2022 and that again will be for Anthony Nolan, it is an amazing charity but I feel for them because like many charities they are being impacted by covid and the inability to raise money.
"I am really pleased because I targeted £5,000 and I am just under £6,300, people have been really generous."
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