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Reassured I'm fit, I'm running again

Until the other day I wasn’t sure I was fit to do it but recent reassurances have left me more determined than ever to go ahead.

So, with only a little over three weeks to go I’ve re-started (sorry, started) training for the Great North Run, the half marathon with the most participants in the world, in Newcastle on Sunday 7 September.

This will be my sixth half marathon (13.1 miles for the uninitiated). I’ve also completed the London and Edinburgh marathons, raising money for good causes along the way.

My chosen charity this time is Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the independent international medical crisis organisation which provides emergency treatment for victims in some of the world’s most hellish trouble spots.

MSF, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, sends teams of doctors, surgeons and nurses - all volunteers - to more than 60 countries to clean up some of the effects of man’s inhumanity to man. See youtube.com/watch?v=8jdq9OcjajM&feature=youtu.be

We see them on TV, hear about them on the radio and read about them in the press.

Now it’s time we did something to help them.

I’ve set up a justgiving Web page for donations. 

Helping Medecins Sans Frontières by sponsoring me is simple, fast and totally secure. Your money is sent directly to the charity.

Just go to www.justgiving.com/Scott-Thornton3.

Thanks in advance. I’m off to the gym. ■