A team of Doncaster health workers collectively ran 100 miles across 24 hours

The weekend challenge named Equinox24 consists of 100 miles of non-stop running.

Team members take it in turns to run six mile laps across the countryside around Leicestershire’s Belvoir Castle.

The unforgiving course includes an incline of almost 500 feet to be climbed every lap.

The Doncaster team Aspire Allstars blew away the target.

Veteran runner Jim Fletcher, aged 65, has coached the team to the fitness levels needed to compete in a challenge of this standard.

He said: “It was blistering hot during the day, which slowed us down a bit, and then we had to don head torches to keep running through the night, which wasn’t easy as the ground was very uneven.

“We completed 19 10k laps in total, that’s an average of three each, with no sleep.

“The atmosphere in the tented village where we were based was electric and as the sun rose on the Sunday morning it was a magnificent view that lifted us and got the adrenaline flowing again.

“At the end we were all very emotional.

“It was a superb team effort, everybody working for each other and we were buzzing as we came home, in spite of the stiffness, aches and pains.

“We’ve already signed up for next year’s event and our aim is to beat this year’s performance.”

They clocked up 118 miles in 24 hours.

The team made up of Jim Fletcher, Louise Henry, Laura Hill, Kaye Huntington, Paul Wade, Maggie Walley and Rebecca Yorke.

All are members of Aspire Drug and Alcohol Services’ running team.

Aspire is managed by Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with registered charity The Alcohol and Drug Service.

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