Martin Pearn from Camelford is currently in training for this year's London Marathon which he will be running in aid of CLIC Sargent and the RSPCA. Martin, who lives with his wife Yvette and two daughters Jade and Charly, said: "I have been running for just over a year now, mainly to keep fit as it is one of the very few activities that I can do with my work as I do long hours mainly away from home. I am currently working in Guernsey. "I was finding it very difficult to muster the enthusiasm to get out of bed on a wet winters day at 5 o'clock in the morning to get a run in before work, so I decided I needed a goal and applied for the Flora London Marathon. "Twenty three weeks ago I started to follow a 28 week running program which takes me right up to the race day, April 13, 2008. This required me to start running six days a week and I slowly built up the miles over the months. "It was around Christmas time, that I found out that I had a place on the marathon running for CLIC  Sargent, who are a charity that provides clinical, psychological, emotional and financial support to those children and young people and their families who have been diagnosed with cancer or leukaemia.