NINE members of Fenland Running Club will take part in the London Marathon. Pasquale Ruggiero kick started the Wisbech-based club s 2010 marathon runs in Rome last month and the marathon season will be in full swing in London next Sunday. Trudy Sayell and

NINE members of Fenland Running Club will take part in the London Marathon.

Pasquale Ruggiero kick started the Wisbech-based club's 2010 marathon runs in Rome last month and the marathon season will be in full swing in London next Sunday.

Trudy Sayell and Mel Murdoch are running their first ever marathon.

Sayell is raising money for Asthma UK and Age Concern Cambs.

Also running their first marathons are Michelle Gilbert and Lisa Jermey.

Jermey is raising money for Bernardos.

Lou Busby is running money for Get Kids Going, a charity to keep disabled children active.

Other FRC members taking part are Jane Holmes, Dave Harris, Ady Martin and Keith White.

White will be using this marathon as training for the Comrades ultra distance 56 mile race in Durban, South Africa on May 30.

Holmes will be raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK.

On May 9 Dave Hood, Jane Greenwood, Cheryl Chapman, Paul Weigand and Sean Connolly will be running the Halstead and Essex Marathon.

On May 23 Cara Russell, Sarah Gauvin, Nicole Coughlin and Andre Pittock will be tackling the Edinburgh Marathon.

Russell will be raising money for the Vanessa Grant Trust which supports education projects in Kenya.

Gauvin and Coughlin will raise money for Macmillan Care Support and both have set their goals on achieving sub 3hrs 45mins to entitle them to get a 'Good for Age' place in next year's London Marathon.

In October, Stuart Sewell will compete in the Dublin Marathon.

To support FRC's fundraising efforts, visit anyone of the following websites: www.justgiving.com/louise-busby; www.justgiving.com/nicole-coughlin; www.justgiving.com/sarah-gauvin; www.justgiving.com/melanie-murdoch;

www.justgiiving.com/lisa-jermey0; www.justgiving.com/cara-russell; www.justgiving.com/jane-holmes