EARLIER this year, the Great North Run launched an ambitious campaign to recruit a runner from every country in the world to take part in the half-marathon between Newcastle and South Shields.
Vanessa Nair: added Grenada to the list of more than 150 nations involved
The organisers knew that they had their work cut out for them, but they didn’t bank on a runner from one of the more obscure countries living right under their noses.
Vanessa Nair lives in a suburb of Newcastle, a short distance from the start line of the famous 13.1-mile run, which sees 57,000 participants take part every year.
The 38-year-old childminder and parttime teaching assistant hails from Grenada, a Caribbean country with 100,000 residents – less than double the amount of people who take part in the Great North Run.