Mike's EU Marathons

[Andy]

As we didn't have a thread for Mike's efforts, thought I'd start one.

From Mike's website

Hi I'm Mike and I'm running a marathon in each of the 28 EU member countries to raise awareness and much needed funds for biomedical research into ME & for the charity Invest In ME

http://www.mikeseumarathons.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/mikeseumarathons/

Latest blog

I'm now halfway in my challenge to run a marathon in all 28 EU countries! 3 years done and 3 to go.

It's been an extremely busy last 3 months where I've run 3 marathons including my best ever and raised around £2000 for Invest In ME's biomedical research projects.

Here's my round up.....

http://mikeseumarathons.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/augseptoct-update.html

ETA: Direct link to Mike's JustGiving page, https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mikeseumarathons

 

[BurnA]

As we didn't have a thread for Mike's efforts, thought I'd start one.

Has anyone invited Mike here ?
I met Mike at iime last year, great guy.

 

[Andy]

Has anyone invited Mike here ?
I met Mike at iime last year, great guy.

I've just sent him a message about this thread.

 

[Esther12]

Thanks Andy. And of course, thanks to Mike too. It's really been a marathon of marathons, and it's really impressive to see how this campaign has also been used to successfully generate decent media coverage too. Great work!

 

[Joh]

For the German speaking folks here (I know at least 2 ), I wrote a tiny article about Mike that was published yesterday in the monthly ME/CFS update of The German Association: https://www.mecfs.de/mecfs-update-112017/

Edit: I also used a quote from Anil's article that I liked: "Mike Harley is running for our lives".

 

[Andy]

@Joh , it would be great if you could create a thread for the monthly update, assuming there isn't one already.

 

[Andy]

Update from Mike on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/mikeseumarathons/posts/1949308485330858

 

[Mike Harley]

ha beat me to it Andy, cheers!

 

[Esther12]

ha beat me to it Andy, cheers!

Welcome to the forum Mike, and thanks for all your work.

 

[Daisybell]

Hello @Mike Harley - great to see you here!
In case I haven’t told you - I think what you have done and are doing for ME awareness is totally amazing.

 

[Grigor]

My interview with Mike about his run in Amsterdam and his interview with us and his blog about meeting me.

http://anilvanderzee.com/mike-harley-is-running-for-our-lives-in-amsterdam/

 

[Andy]

My interview with Mike about his run in Amsterdam and his interview with us and his blog about meeting me.

http://anilvanderzee.com/mike-harley-is-running-for-our-lives-in-amsterdam/

Welcome to the forum Anil

 

[Grigor]

Welcome to the forum Anil

Thanks man. Was following it a bit already. Good idea to open a thread about speedy Mike.

 

[Allele]

Welcome to the forum, @Mike Harley and @Grigor , it's great to see you here.

Thank you so much both of you for bringing awareness. So amazing and heartwarming!

 

[Mike Harley]

Just a quick one to say thanks for supporting me this year everyone.

I hope you were able to have pleasant pain-free Christmasses and hope that 2018 is a better year.

Looking forward to making more friends next year and hopefully adding to the £9.6K we have for Invest In ME's biomedical research projects.



(15) Malta (Malta) - Sun Feb 25th
(16) Vienna (Austria) - Sun Apr 22nd
(17) Copenhagen (Denmark) - Sun May 13th
(18) Tallinn (Estonia) - Sun Sept 9th
(19) Sofia (Bulgaria) - Sun Oct 14th

I'm injured at the moment with minor calf tears but hope to be back ready for Malta

Catch up soon

Mike

www.justgiving.com/mikeseumarathons
www.mikeseumarathons.eu
www.facebook.com/mikeseumarathons
@mikeseumaras

 

[Esther12]

Best wishes with your recovery from injury.

 

[Invisible Woman]

Happy New Year @Mike Harley ! I hope you recover soon. Thank you for such a huge effort on our behalf.

 

[Little Bluestem]

Do take care of yourself. Don't run if you are not up to it. We all know what happens when you push yourself more than you should.

 

[Mike Harley]

Hi all

Here is my interview with the Malta ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia Alliance about life for patients there.

http://www.mikeseumarathons.eu/malta.html

You can find their facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/me.cfs.fm.AllianceMalta/

I'll be working with them over the next few weeks before the Marathon (Feb 25th) to hopefully raise awareness for ME in the media.

Cheers

Mike

 

[Joh]

I know that you're already happily married, otherwise I'd propose now! Thanks for all your advocacy work!