Stephen Melling, 45, started from Cumbria before finishing in North Yorkshire on Saturday night.
A former drug addict and alcoholic who only took up running last year has covered 110 miles in 24 hours to raise funds for his support group.
Stephen Melling, 45, started from Arnside, Cumbria, before finishing in Whitby, North Yorkshire, on Saturday, to raise money for charity Recovery Runners. The father-of-four, from Liverpool, said he had had to briefly stop twice after he nearly fell asleep while still running and then started hallucinating.
Mr Melling had a £150-a-day drugs and three bottles of wine habit before he quit. He then started running and, since July 2023, has managed to run nearly 40 marathons and ultra-marathons."I could feel myself falling asleep running, so I had to rest. I slept for an hour and had some coffee," he said."It was crazy - it felt like my body was telling me something and I had to stop again and rest. It was incredible thing to get to the end.
However, a friend suggested he take up running and he kicked things off by going round a car park, which he initially found "horrible" - but now he is director of Recovery Runners.Mr Melling has so far raised £6,800 of a £15,000 target to try and set up a base for his group.'It's jail, dead, or a future' - series explores addictionTeenage winger Ben Doak earns praise from head coach Steve Clarke and pundits after his first Scotland start in the loss to Croatia.
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