I always love the inspirational stories that comes from fabulous and inspirational individuals every year who run the 26 mile marathon in London, so in honour of this amazing people I’ve posted the stories of a couple of the runners who took part in the London Marathon 2010.

One of the most Inspirational individuals this year had to Army Hero Major Phil Packer who suffered spinal injuries in Iraq in 2008

Major Phil

Major Phil Packer crossed the finish line in 13 days His personal best. In last years London Marathon he crossed the line in 14 days

Major Packer, only stopped once for physiotherapy in his 13 day marathon, said: “I’m not going to get any time to rest even now – there is work still to be done in terms of fundraising.”

The Major has raised an amazing £13 million for charity. He finished his Marathon in 25hours and 55 minutes meeting his target to finish in 26 hours for 26 charities

Amazing, I did the math on this and Major Phil would have walked around 2 miles a day taking him 2 hours to walk. WOW!!!

Well done Major Phil you are the embodiment of true grit and we all should aspire to you in our lives!

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An English man from Swindon ran the 26 mile London Marathon then ran a further 80 miles home to Swindon in total covering over 128km

He managed to run this astounding distance with an ankle injury.

Marathon Man

Mike Buss used to be a former Royal Green Jacket in the Army until he was medically discharge after a car bomb in Northern Ireland where he was stationed went off 20ft away from him.

After being discharged Mike became homeless and spent time on the streets after he found it hard to adjust to civilian life

He was help by the The Royal British Legion who supported him to get his life back on track

Mike Buss raised £25,000 for the charity Help for Heroes with his amazing run, his way of say thank you and to helping other soldier like himself who are hurt in conflicts.