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Sinfield said he wanted to “rest his body now” after reaching his Saddleworth home
Rugby star Kevin Sinfield said it would have taken losing a leg to stop him completing a 230-mile run in aid of people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Despite picking up a muscle injury in November, he started the week-long endeavour in Liverpool last Sunday in memory of his late teammate Rob Burrow, who died with the illness in June.
Crossing the finish line in Saddleworth having raised more than £1m, Sinfield said: “Since Rob got diagnosed it’s taught me that it’s important to take some risk – be uncomfortable and be vulnerable and, yeah, that’s what we’ve had to do this week.
“I understood that at some point it could go wrong and I could end up having to stop, but as I said… you’d have had to chop my leg off for that.”
Sinfield added: “The families we’ve met, the stories we’ve heard – the fight, the inspiration, the willingness to stand together to fight MND – has been wonderful wherever we’ve been.”
He said he was “delighted” to be home, and that he wanted to “rest his body”.
Ahead of the last leg, Sir Keir Starmer said in a video message that Sinfield’s efforts were “almost unbelievable in terms of the endurance, the commitment, the dedication
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