Great Bristol Run: I'm giving back to a charity that has given us a lot at the time

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Peter is running the Great Bristol Run 2025 half-marathon to raise money for Cots for Tots, a charity he holds close to his heart.  Peter’s son was born three and a months prematurely, and the family had to stay at the hospital for around 102 days.  During this period, they received a lot of support and donations from the charity.  Peter now wants to give back to Cots for Tots by taking part at the Great Bristol Run.

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00:00Hello I'm Peter Abram. I'm running for Cots for Tots. That's a charity that's

00:06quite close to our hearts because my little boy was born three and a half

00:10months premature and we decided that we wanted to try and give back to the

00:15charity that was so helpful whilst we were at the actual hospital ourselves.

00:18Whilst we were in the hospital we were there for quite a long period of time.

00:22We spend whole days in there a hundred and I think 102 days in the hospital in

00:28all so we were in the hospital a lot there was a lot of stuff donated by the

00:35charity whilst we were there and there was a lot of little tags on things saying

00:40donated by such and such through Cots and Tots and I decided that I really wanted

00:45to put back into that when we had chance. It's been a long time coming it was eight

00:49years ago my little boy was in there, nine years ago actually, that he was in

00:52there but it's finally a good point and a good time for me to be able to do so so

00:57trying to give back to a charity that gave so much to us at the time.

01:01Is this the first time you'll be running the Great Bristol Run?

01:05Yes it's the first time I'll be running the Great Bristol Run. If I'd thought

01:08about it I should have said I'd do a 10k but we signed up for a half marathon so

01:13now I'm in training for that 11th of May hopefully I'll be ready to do it.

01:19How has the experience been so far?

01:22Really hard, incredibly hard. I've dieted for the last two weeks because I felt

01:28that losing a bit of weight might help me get round so I've gone on to a strict

01:32diet about 16 days ago so I'm not having any pizzas on weekends, no more beer, no

01:39coffee, no dairy, no bread, no anything really but it's helping and my run last

01:47weekend was a lot easier hopefully this weekend it's going to get easier again

01:50so

01:53That's something Chris has had, is there anything you'd like to add?

01:57No only really that it's a really important charity and hopefully that

02:02anyone sees this they'll be encouraged to give really generously to them and I'm

02:08hoping to do my part and give a really good amount by the end of the run.

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