‘It’s me against the road’: meet the marathon man of west Cumbria

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Gary McKee has run a marathon a day throughout 2022 on his Three Six Five Challenge for charity

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McKee has been raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support for two decades, a mission he traces back to his father’s cancer diagnosis in 1997. “I wanted to do something in his memory so I became a fundraiser for Macmillan,” said McKee. “The first thing I did was a cycle ride through Brazil, 70 miles a day in 40C temperatures. It raised a lot of money and it gave me the impetus to carry on.”

 

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