British lad goes viral running mile every day for mental health Twitter\/X: thehullboy1British teenager Marcus Skeet is taking social media by storm for running a mile each day in support of mental health awareness. 16-year-old Marcus Skeet has raised over \u00a33,036 ($3802.29) for Mind (NAMH), a nonprofit organization based in London that focuses on mental health. Skeet, known online as \u2018thehullboy,\u2019 started his campaign in April 2024, running a mile every day to \u201cspread awareness and try [to] raise money for mental health.\u201d As told by the description on his GoFundMe page, Skeet claims that he\u2019s lost friends due to their struggles with mental health and has even had family members experience difficulties, as well as undergoing his own battle with depression. \u201cIt\u2019s always been a mission of mine to spread as much awareness for mental health as possible and try [to] help others out,\u201d he said. Over the last month, Skeet has gone viral across Twitter\/X thanks to posting his daily runs on the social media platform, racking up millions of views and tens of thousands of likes per post. At the end of April, Skeet linked up with English endurance athlete \u2018The Hardest Geezer\u2019 Russ Cook, a man famous for running across the entire length of Africa to raise \u00a31,000,000 ($1,252,400) for nonprofit orgs The Running Charity and Sandblast. However, Skeet isn\u2019t done with his daily running \u2014 not by a long shot. On May 1, the lad made another post on X, saying he\u2019s now going to run five kilometers (a little over three miles) every day in honor of Mental Health Awareness month. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tough month physically, but the mental health battle is tougher and NEEDS to be spoken about more!\u201d he wrote. \u201cRemember you are loved and you\u2019re amazing.\u201d Skeet tracks his runs using the Goals-Fitness app, which shows off how many calories he\u2019s burned, how many steps he\u2019s taken during his run, and even tracks his route on Maps. That\u2019s not all; Skeet also has plans to run a marathon in October alongside Cook in Yorkshire, using his daily goals as training for the fall race. Skeet\u2019s progress has been capturing the attention of the internet, garnering positive responses from users online who are watching his journey every day as he undertakes his new challenge for another 31 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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