SINFIELD GOES FOURTH
STEPHEN IBBETSON hears why Kevin Sinfield is taking on yet another challenge, 'for a mate' and for the MND community.
THE running shoes are out, the donations are coming in, and we're all preparing to get emotional again - it can only be another Kevin Sinfield challenge for motor neurone disease (MND).
The Leeds Rhinos and England great said that would be it after completing his third challenge in as many years at the end of 2022, when he so memorably finished a seventh ultra-marathon in seven days at Old Trafford during the World Cup Final.
Before that, he completed seven marathons in seven days in 2020, and ran 101 miles from Leicester to Leeds in 24 hours the following year. In total, he's raised over £8 million to date.
But you can't keep a good man down, as the saying goes. Sinfield and his mate Rob Burrow, who have inspired so many with their friendship since Burrow's diagnosis with MND in 2019, are great men indeed.
Sinfield's fourth challenge will see him run a marathon, plus one 'extra mile', each day for a week, in seven different cities.
He will begin this Friday (December 1), starting alongside Burrow at Headingley, where the pair enjoyed such exceptional playing careers together for Leeds Rhinos, on the third anniversary of the start of his first challenge.
After running to York on day one, Sinfield and his team will complete journeys around Cardiff, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin and Brighton before finishing in London next Thursday (December 7) with a journey from Twickenham - where he currently works as the England rugby union national team's defence coach - to the Mall.