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.
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.