Aaron Jones, Daniel McGuire and Jordan Vernolini are all aged 21 and needed one hour 50 minutes to finish the half marathon, which is 13 miles long and took place last month.
In total their efforts brought in £560, with Kelty-based charity Gordon Cottage – which provides childcare support – the cause that they chose to compete on behalf of.
Vernolini is an Edinburgh Napier University student, where he is completing the final year of an accountancy degree, and he told the Dunfermline Press that they had chosen this charity because it had been so supportive of his two-year-old cousin, who suffers from cerebral palsy.
He also stated that the fundraising target they had set was £500, but that they had initially worried that they wouldn’t reach it. Fundraisers of this type often use poster printing in Dunfermline and similar places, to help promote them.
Speaking about the race, Vernolini said:
“I didn’t think I had any chance of doing the full 13 miles, but on the day the buzz with everybody there was amazing. You just kept running, you didn’t want to stop, so we kept going.”
He added that the experience had been lots of fun and that they were all delighted to have successfully completed it.