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Sam Old

Rome Marathon 2026

Help me reach my goal of £1,000

I am taking part in Rome Marathon 2026 in support of SSAFA

I am taking part in Rome Marathon in support of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity on 22nd March 2026.

SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity is a trusted source of support for serving personnel, veterans and their families in their time of need. In 2024 their trained teams of volunteers and employees helped more than 50,000 people, including veterans, serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and their families.

SSAFA understands that behind every uniform is a person. And they are here for that person and their family, any time they need and in any way they need them.

I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to run for such an amazing charity, and I’m excited to be running my first marathon in one of my favourite cities. Every donation counts, thank you to everyone who contributes!    

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£1,023 + £151.44 GiftAid

My Goal

£1,000

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50% of Fundraising Target

100% Target Raised

Received 5 Donations

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Reached Distance Goal

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My Updates

Week 16 Of The Training Block

Saturday 28th Feb
Solid week, final long run of the block done, felt really strong. Ran from Rainham to Faversham, massive kudos to Chris for joining and completing it. Taper down from now, 3 weeks to go.

Week 14 and 15 of Training Block

Saturday 21st Feb
Week 14 was a nice deload week and week 15 was the toughest yet. 51.1k ticked off for the week. Hit all the pace targets for the 17k section and managed to get the last 7 done but the last couple were absolute hell, complete opposite of last week but that’s running. Toughest runs out the way now, easy pace 33 next week and then taper down from there.

Week 13 of Training Block

Saturday 7th Feb
Really strong week, absolutely buzzing with the 30k, best run I’ve done so far. Harry joining for the first 18k helped massively then hitting all but 1 of the pace targets for the last 12k. 2/3 of the way on the donations as well so massive thank you to everyone who’s donated so far❤️

Week 11/12 of training block

Saturday 7th Feb
Week 11 started very solid but flopped the long run as shoe split, but very good week 12. Great 22k with the boys on the Saturday.

Week 11/12

Saturday 7th Feb
Week 11 started very solid but flopped the long run as shoe split, but very good week 12. Great 22k with the boys. 

Week 10/19 of Training Block✅

Tuesday 20th Jan
Good week all round, 26k was an absolute killer but got it done. Big week ahead. Over halfway there on fundraising too, thank you to everyone who’s donated so far❤️

Week 9/19 of training block

Tuesday 6th Jan
Currently on week 9/19 on my Runna training block. Feeling strong after a rough week or so with the flu. Absolutely ecstatic to have been able to get a place with such a great charity and looking forward to hopefully ticking off a bucket list event🏃

Thank you to my Sponsors

£53.32

Cindy & Chris

Good luck

£53.32

Ian And Vicki

Go for it Sam!!

£50

Kelsey Plummer

Good luck Sam! Lots of love, Henry & Kels xx

£50

Pixel Movement

Let's go, boy!

£50

Ryan Bourke

Good luck mate, go smash it

£42.79

Charlotte Harler

Well done Sam great cause xx

£32.23

Amanda Clare

Go Sam - you’ll smash it xx

£32.23

Justine Leonard

You’ve got this ⭐️

£30

Tracy Collins

Good luck!! 🏃

£30

Helen Beare

Best of luck Sam! Make sure you beats Harry’s time! From Helen and Gerard x

£30

Harry

Go smash it Sam - make sure you beat me ❤️

£30

Jack Payton

You’ll smash it mate, best of luck

£27.05

Kiyan Ducker

You’ve got this brother.

£27.05

Jake Marsh

Go smash it mate 👊

£27.05

Mark Cannon

Good Luck Sam 👍

£25

Christian Beare

£21.84

Josh Morton

Good luck mate 💪

£21.84

Edward Leonard

You ever drank Baileys from a shoe?

£21.84

Bernard Tashie-lewis

Good luck for your run.

£21.84

Zach Garrard

Good luck mate!

£21.84

Harvey Mackay

Good luck mate!

£21.84

Paul Harler

Well done for doing this Sammy Wammy

£21.84

Edward Neate

Good luck! You've put in a great training block 🏃‍♂️

£20

Robert Fuller

£20

Harvey Nye

Good luck brother, glad you’ve finally lost some weight too!

£20

Rachel And Alex Bench

Good luck Sam!

£20

House Of Skin & Beauty

Well done Sam! Good luck 🏃🏼

£20

Lewis & Nula

Good luck Sam!!! You’ll smash it

£20

Miles

Good cause mate, good luck

£20

Mike Watson

£16.56

Justin Beare

£15

Jasper

Go on mate!

£15

Oli

Smash it mate

£15

Lucy Cuff

Good Luck! X

£11.33

Matt Phillips

£11.33

Harry Weston

£11.33

Ian P

Just to get you over!

£10

Matt Halls

Good luck mate - try not to think about N form too much on the way round x

£10

Alex

£10

Meghan Grieve

You’ll smash it!! 👏🏻

£9.99

Lottie Cuff

£5

Ewan Boddy