2,000 already in running for big race
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![Entries for the 31st Hastings Half Marathon on Sunday March 22 are already up around the 2,000 mark](/img/placeholder.png)
Entries always surge at the start of the year and 400 arrived last week alone as anticipation builds ahead of the Hastings Lions Club-organised event on Sunday March 22.
We begin our build-up to the 31st staging of the 13.1-mile race by looking at some of the reasons for running from the entries received so far.
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Hide AdReasons for running: Matt Maurice - daughter diagnosed with diabetes type 1 in 2013; Greg and Carl Holmes - for their dad; Albert Kemp - in memory of sisters Brenda and Christine; Roxane Mitchell - husband passed away after a short battle with cancer in 2012.just 24 days after the wedding. Raising money for Royal Marsden, the hospital which tried so hard to save him; Naomi Hitchman - to raise money for charity and achieve something ‘I have always wanted to do’; Samuel John Butler - ‘to prove to myself I can do a half marathon’; Amanda Doxford - to raise money for St Michael’s Hospice and improve fitness; Colin Hayes - first attempt to run Hastings Half and will be raising money for charity; Tim Savin - father-in-law used to run this race. Following in his footsteps; Heather Crow - grew up along the route and always went out to support the runners. ‘My parents still live there and I can’t wait to be running, rather than watching, this time.
The waiting list for the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road 10K, incidentally, is approaching 1,500. Visit www.hastings-half.co.uk for more information on both events.