A Capital Idea: ward sister Ceri smashes the half marathon around the London Landmarks

You know when you book that weekend break in The Big Smoke and you’ve planned your tube, bus, taxi and rickshaw trips to see the sights?

Well, what about taking in all those tourist attractions in just over a couple of hours, maybe a little longer, by signing up for the London Landmarks Half Marathon?

That’s exactly what one of our wonderful inpatients ward sisters, Ceri, did to raise funds for our cherished hospice.

The route started at Pall Mall and finished up outside Downing Street. You could walk the direct route in five minutes but the real thing is much further!

While warming up, speeding, jogging, trotting and maybe walking a little, she saw Buckingham Palace, Nelson’s Column, Somerset House, The Strand, Royal Courts of Justice, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Gherkin, The Cheese Grater, The Shard, The Walkie Talkie, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the London Eye, The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, the Prime Minister’s Den and much, much, more.

It was almost like a trip around a Monopoly board in which Ceri raised a really nice amount for our beloved hospice.

Ceri has the very grateful thanks of all her hospice colleagues and also for the souvenir snow globes with a famous red bus and one or two of the other sites in it too.

Well done Ceri!

If you would like to sponsor Ceri for her conquering the London Landmarks marathon her Just Giving links is here for a while longer www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ceri-Howarth