Rugby coach, Kevin Sinfield MBE will be running seven ultramarathons, in seven days, in seven different cities and regions to help raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) community.

Starting on Monday 1 December, the ‘7 in 7: Together’ Challenge will be his sixth annual event, and his first time doing the challenge in Sheffield since 2021.

In his previous challenges, Sinfield has helped bring the community together and has raised a huge £10m for research and campaigning efforts to help find treatment and a cure for MND.

He will be in Sheffield on Thursday 4 December having chosen this location to highlight the work being done here to find treatment for MND and show support for the MND community in the region.

Starting at Bramall Lane, Sinfield will stop off at Abbeydale Sports Centre, Sheffield Tigers, Champs, the English Institute of Sports, Herries Road and The Wave at the University of Sheffield all before finishing at the Sheffield Institute of Translational Neuroscience (SITraN).

His final stop, SITraN has been the beneficiary of Sinfield’s previous challenges and he said he was looking forward to coming back to Sheffield, “to shine a spotlight on the incredible work of the researchers there and the work they are doing.”

SITraN, and other organisations that receive money from these challenges, are working to make the lives of people with MND better as well as conducting vital research into the condition.

Sinfield highlighted the message that together, with all these fundraising efforts, treatment will be created for MND and, “we will find a cure.”

Sinfield and his team made it clear that these locations have been chosen for a reason and so that nobody in the MND community feels overlooked or alone.

He said: “We want to show them that people right across the UK and Ireland are passionate about the MND community and the best way to show that is by turning up ourselves.”

Sinfield mentioned several times the emotional weight that this challenge has after the loss of his friend and fellow rugby player Rob Burrow last year.

He said that as well as pushing himself for the whole MND community he was also just “running for a mate” and that he expects that Burrow will no doubt be with him in spirit, spurring him on.

Sinfield encouraged people to come out and support the fundraiser in any way they could, even in the cold, wet and windy December weather as he prepared to tackle the hilly roads of Sheffield for such an important cause.

You can donate £10 by texting ‘KEVIN10’ to 70143.