After completing her 12th Great North Run, Ryton's Becky Ellerton is more than halfway through a year of challenges in honour of her late grandmother who died on Boxing Day last year due to gallbladder cancer.
Becky, 31, is a paediatric doctor at the RVI. After her grandma Marjorie's death she decided that, because Marjorie would have turned 90 this year she would attempt nine fitness challenges for Macmillan Cancer Support over 2022 - one for each decade she lived.
So far, this has included an ultra-marathon in Keswick, a duathlon at Derwent Reservoir and the Durham Coastal Half Marathon Trail. However, the Great North Run is one of Becky's favourite events. Afterwards, Becky - who has a 20-month-old baby Charlie with husband Matthew, added: "I've been full of cold so I didn't quite get the time I was aiming for but it was amazing. This was my 12th time.
