Man in 130-mile walk before marathon raises £60k

A man who walked 130 miles (209km) from Wolverhampton to the capital in less than three days, and then ran the London Marathon, has raised more than £61,000 for charity in the process.

Wolves fan Manny Singh Kang left the Molineux stadium on Friday to walk to the start line for Sunday in Greenwich Park without any sleep.

In total the volunteer ambassador for Dementia UK has now raised more than £400,000 for the charity since he began taking on fundraising challenges in 2018.

He said of finishing his latest endeavour: "I thought there'd be loads of tears and everything, but I think I was a little bit delirious."

He added: "I went up to this one lady and she had this biggest ice cream, cheering me on. I don't who she was and just grabbed her ice cream and ate it."

The Wolverhampton resident, who has become known across the city for his fundraising feats, did the 26-mile run for his seventh time.

Kang said he had a target of £5,000 when he first started fundraising for Dementia UK.

"The marathon is the biggest example of exactly how humans should be, random people who don't kind of know each other, but on that day they get together to help others that they don't know either," Kang said.

"We should all be taking a huge example from what happened yesterday into our own personal lives and the way we go about our time on this planet."

Looking back on his efforts, he remembered the night time when he was "in pitch black" with "pretty much nothing about".

"[It] just wants you to stop and rest... so the mental battle was a different level... but we made it through."

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