Hong Kong runners raise HK$450,000 by completing the 4 trails in memory of friend who died from Lymphoma

A group of runners have raised almost HK$500,000 in memory of a friend who died from Lymphoma, finishing a challenge he had set himself to complete Hong Kong’s four major trails.

The 10 friends of Simon Robinson, a trail runner, Sandy Bay rugby player and physiotherapist who was just 31 when he died, said they did it to “keep his spirit alive”.

Having set themselves the ambitious target of raising half a million dollars for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Northern Ireland, enough to fund a new research project at Queen’s University Belfast, they have reached HK$450,000 so far.

Robinson, who worked at the Joint Dynamics gym in Hong Kong, was admitted to hospital on May 4 last year, diagnosed with cancer on May 17 and died on May 22.