Tom's marathon challenge
Please sponsor our runner
Hi, my name's Tom Walker and I'm a 25-year-old film-maker living in
south London. When I was asked by VST to raise money for them by running
the 2012 London Marathon I was split as to whether to agree to take on
the challenge or run in the opposite direction. I'm not a natural runner
and although I love sport and exercise I can't exactly say that the idea
of 26 gruelling miles of it fills me with joy. Yet having worked closely
with VST on a film project I was able to see amazing things this charity
can achieve for the marginalised people of India. Their 30 years of hard
work in south India have helped thousands of people who otherwise would
not have a chance to live a life free from poverty, violence and
discrimination. For these reasons I agreed to undertake this daunting
task and try and raise as much money as possible by running/crawling the
London Marathon for VST. Hopefully I might even do well enough to get
scouted for the 2012 London Olympics . . . I think not!