A Keighley car dealer swapped his wheels for running shoes on Sunday to run the London Marathon and raise money for the intensive care unit at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.
Gary Stevenson, 35, of Knaresborough, works at Sunwin Peugeot and raised over £3,000 for the unit with his first ever marathon, which took him four hours and seventeen minutes.
Gary was touched by the story of a five-month-old boy who contracted meningitis and, despite the best efforts of the unit, died earlier this year.
He says: "The London Marathon is a challenge I've always wanted to take on and I decided to raise money for the Intensive Care Unit to buy additional equipment.
"I was delirious when I finished - it was a fantastic feeling to complete it but I won't be running another one!
I trained for about three or four months, but I have two children so I used to get up at about five o'clock. I ran through ice and snow in the winter."
He hopes to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of the brain disease meningitis - which can kill very quickly if not recognised and treated in time.
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