Stroll up the hill from Headingley stadium, the place with which Kevin Sinfield became synonymous, and you cannot miss an enormous mural of the rugby league legend. Its place in the centre of the community epitomises the effect he had on the city of Leeds during his playing career and on Sunday it is fitting that thousands will run past that mural in the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon.
It was 1 December 2020, in the dark days of lockdown, when Sinfield first started running to raise money, not only to support his former Leeds Rhinos teammate, but everyone affected by motor neurone disease. Burrow had been diagnosed with the condition a year earlier.
