Jim Summers

Having an Irish mother, Welsh father, Scottish godparents and an English birth certificate, Jim runs under the Union Jack. This will be his first attempt at the 26.2 mile distance and being a resident of Lodsworth (a small village in West Sussex, England and the former home of Ranulph Fiennes' mother), the North Pole seemed like a good place to start - and probably end - his marathon running experience. Jim, age 51, is Chairman of London based investment firm Hydra Capital and CEO of the Lodsworth Arbitrage Fund. He says he plans to seek out and support the Pizza Express Team as, in his words, " Having run less than a 100 marathons each they seem to be the only normal people competing and fingers crossed they will have arranged a mobile restaurant nearby !". As a confirmed competitor in the 2005 postponed NP Marathon he is delighted for the opportunity to have another go at the event. While training for last years marathon, he reports that he has recovered from his fall on the Theodul glacier at the foot of the Klien Matterhorn, Switzerland. However, as before he will still be relying heavily on his training for the 1998 London Triathlon (his last strenuous event) to get him to the start, while a pledge to assist the Himalayan Cataract Project (http://www.cureblindness.org/) with the funding for 5000 operations in Nepal should get him to the finish.