Tanya’s marathon effort for Motor Neurone Disease

Published on 18/03/2013 14:08

When Tanya McDonald ever worries or has second thoughts about what she’s signed herself up for whilst preparing for the Edinburgh Marathon, she pulls herself together and thinks: “I am healthy and in good shape, many afflicted with such debilitating illnesses like MND do not have the opportunity to run, come on Tanya!”.

And that’s why she’s where she is today with her training regime.

The Banchory runner has described her challenge of running the Edinburgh Marathon this year as “something completely different” for her.

Mrs McDonald said she enjoys running, hill walking, cycling and generally keeping fit but was last year “profoundly moved” by the death of her good friend’s father and felt she needed to do something to raise funds to try and find a cure for Motor Neurone Disease.

Mrs McDonald said: “I started out thinking that I would do a half marathon and before I knew it, I had ‘clicked’ on the full marathon in Edinburgh 26 May 2013 (mad or what!!)

“The furthest I have run before was 5 miles. Realising what I had committed myself to, in September last year, I started running about 3 miles every other day and 12 miles on a Saturday

“Over the winter I bought myself a treadmill so that I could keep up my training during the worst Banchory winter weather.”

Mrs McDonald is raising funds with a slight twist - she’s holding a competition for people to guess the time she’ll take to complete the marathon when sponsoring her and has gathered some prizes from friends and colleagues for the winner.

Tanya said: “Gavin (my other half) and Ron of McDonald & Ogston Joiners have started the ball rolling with £100 but say’s there’s no timesheet for 8 hours!”

If you would like to donate, contact Tanya on 07944805199 or e-mail gavin@gavinmcdonald.orangehome.co.uk

Tanya’s colleague Colin McKerron is kindly helping with organising my Sponsorship and ‘Guess the time’ Competition.

Contact him on 07543597486 or e-mail rabwho@yahoo.co.uk.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Tanya’s marathon effort for Motor Neurone Disease

Top stories

News