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A team of students and alumni runners is taking part in a 300-mile ultra marathon from Canterbury to Amsterdam to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n
The University of Kent Athletics and Cross Country Club runners\u00a0will complete\u00a0ten marathons in ten days. They are raising\u00a0funds for the British Heart Foundation and the Kent Opportunity Fund<\/a>, which supports\u00a0scholarships,\u00a0extra-curricular\u00a0projects and bursaries for our\u00a0students.<\/p>\n The runners left Canterbury on 15 June to a rousing send-off by Kent\u00a0students and staff, including Dame Julia Goodfellow, Vice-Chancellor; Graham Holmes, Kent Sport Director; Kim Brophy, Fundraising Volunteer Manager at British Heart Foundation; and Nina Mehmi, Kent Union Vice President (Sport). The Kent Bunny also made an appearance.<\/p>\n Runners from the Athletics and Cross Country Club are well-known for taking on big challenges and, in 2014, completed eight marathons in eight days running from Canterbury to Paris.\u00a0The\u00a0Cants2dam run\u00a0is their biggest challenge yet and one of many exciting student projects taking place during Kent\u2019s 50th<\/sup> anniversary<\/a> year.<\/p>\n You can support the team by making a donation via Just Giving <\/i><\/a>\u00a0or by texting TEXT CDAM50 \u00a35 to 70070 to donate.<\/p>\n For further information, contact <\/i> Tim Farrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"