Jack Penn successfully completed the Paris Marathon on Sunday 5th April. His aim was to conquer a time of less than 4 hours, and he did so, with a fantastic time of 03:56:20! A great achievement, which raised a total of £861 for RAFT.

Jack thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Paris marathon, taking in the sites of France along the way – he did NOT however find dodging the mountains of banana skins scattered along the 26 miles quite as enjoyable!

We are really grateful to Jack for all his hard work in training and on the big day itself. The continued interest and support of our vital research work from Jack is so appreciated by us all. Jack, a student at Southampton University spent the summer of 2008 working at RAFT, gaining valuable research experience and seeing at first hand what we do here.