FW Award winner to run marathon

The man named Farmer of the Year at the 2008 Farmers Weekly Awards likes a challenge, but he’ll be tackling a rather different one from normal soon – running the London Marathon.

Adrian Ivory, who also collected the coveted Massey-Ferguson sponsored Young Farmer of the Year title at the Awards, will be running the 26-mile London course on 26 April a bid to raise cash for the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity.

The Scottish beef and arable producer “mentioned in a moment of madness” he’d enter the event if he was an awards winner – so, true to his word, has now been training hard for the feat of endurance, running around the Perthshire countryside.

He’s already raised more than his target of £3000 through donations from business sponsorship, his own money and contributions from family – so any more will be a bonus. You can sponsor him online at www.justgiving.com/adrianivory

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