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Darren Smith<br />

6 months ago Darren and <strong>Simon</strong>e's beautiful son Isaac passed away at the<br />

age of 5 days in the Evelina Children's Hospital at St Thomas'. They<br />

described him as their miracle as he was the result of IVF. Even after this<br />

tragedy the couple were so pleased with the treatment their son received at<br />

the Evelina, Darren decided to run the Marathon - to say thank you to the<br />

staff at the hospital.<br />

Evelina<br />

Children's<br />

Hospital<br />

Naomi Amor<br />

Naomi's training schedule for the London Marathon started on Christmas<br />

Day 2012 with a 6m run. She's training five days a week up until the big<br />

day and doing a mixture of intervals, steady medium distance runs, and<br />

slower long runs. Her longest training run will be 21 miles. Overall she has<br />

covered 246 miles so far.<br />

Friends of the<br />

Elderly<br />

Lucy and Clio<br />

Byrom<br />

Mother Lucy and daughter Clio Byrom are keeping it in the family and<br />

embarking on the Virgin London Marathon challenge together. They are<br />

doing it for one important person, Lucy’s daughter and elder sister to Clio.<br />

Clio suffers from a very rare variant of Juvenile Alexander’s Disease. Lucy<br />

says “It has had a ghastly effect on our lives and I would do anything to Genetic<br />

help boost any research possible.”<br />

Disorders UK<br />

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