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this is Gary mcke this is West Cumbria

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where Gary went on his daily

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run he'd usually go past these sheep

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past his primary

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school and past bill who would Brew him

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a cup of tea then he'd run back home

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before work seems pretty idic right

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until you realize Gary's morning run is

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a marathon that's 26.2 mil a every

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single

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day I'm Gary mcke and in 2022 around 365

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marathons in 365 days the story probably

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starts on the 23rd of June 1997 when I

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came home from work and when I went in

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the house my dad was sitting there in

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his usual chair and he had tears in his

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eyes he told me that he had cancer he

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passed away 6 years later of under

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illness and in his memory I wanted to do

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something to celebrate his life so I

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became a fundrais for McMillan cancer

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support knowing that the Charities were

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going into people's houses and telling

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them the same devastating years that

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we've been told Gary raised money by

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doing long-distance running but he

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wanted to take his challenges to the

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next level it all just happened really

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quick we were sat in the kitchen I was

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painting his face and he just he just

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came out with it we were all shocked

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I'm sure there are other people who have

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done something similar in terms of

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marathons but not while holding down a

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full-time job to do it whilst running a

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a family a busy family life and still

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supporting other people along the way

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there actually aren't any

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words Gary ran around 10,000 miles over

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the year that's the distance between

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Rome and

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Sydney he spent 30 hours running every

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week in one of the hilliest parts of

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England climbing the equivalent of 11.7

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Mount Everest over the year if I was

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going to work I'd be up at 5:00 in the

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morning the only things I wouldn't know

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would be my shoes I'd never wore the

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same pair of shoes on consecutive days

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and then I would normally do

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motivational video for the deer good

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morning on day 289 10° outside cloudy

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and

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windy word caught on quickly once people

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started to realize this madman was

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actually running 26 miles every single

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day they began to join him to support

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the cause people were coming previously

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couch to 5 care 5K to 10 care 10 care to

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half marathon pushing themselves to do

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the full Marathon work colleague Chris

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ran 92 marathons alongside Gary over the

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year Gary's challenge gave me a purpose

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at the time that I needed it most

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sometimes I don't really know the best

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way to help myself but I always know

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that trying to help others is the best

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way to start I don't think any of us

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would have went I'm going to run even in

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excess of 10 marathons in a

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year it was December 31st

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2022 the 365th marathon Gary's final day

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was a Monumental occasion a 50 strong

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band of Runners joined Gary on a Victory

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lap the town was alive with

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energy the final day I mean what an

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event that was the procession that

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followed Gary through Cur absolutely

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incredible just before we finished I

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pulled everybody together and I thanked

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them and I said to them no matter how

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many miles you run in your life you'll

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always remember this last

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one the roads are lined with people his

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fireworks going off and there was over a

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th people the club waiting for me coming

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in and just chocolate

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block at 7:20 p.m. Gary had reached his

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fundraising goal the Manel as of now has

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raised 1 million for m h at

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home

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what you've got to remember is I hadn't

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had a bay for over a year so being the

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extreme person I am I tried to do a 26.2

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bers I think if people understood what

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their actual limits were and what the

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boundaries were they would say that they

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could push themselves a lot further than

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the believe I think it's getting

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comfortable being uncomfortable

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sometimes and just working towards the

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light because however dark it is is you

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can always find the light if you dig

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deep

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enough