{"id":2811,"date":"2014-05-23T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?2811"},"modified":"2014-05-23T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:10:35","slug":"it-professional-running-10k-for-help-for-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/it-professional-running-10k-for-help-for-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"IT professional running 10k for Help for Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world's most famous heroes is set to help out Help for Heroes at the upcoming Bayer Newbury 10k this weekend (May 25th).<\/p>\n<p>Captain America will be taking part in the local event, along with as many as 1,000 other participants involved in 10k and U16 runs on the 25th, reports the Newbury Today website.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it's not the comic and film hero himself, but a costumed local who will be running on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Newbury's Dan Lagoy, who has plans to transform into the blue-clad Captain and participate in the 10k to raise cash for Help for Heroes, has told the news provider that he is &quot;honoured to be allowed to run on [the charity's] behalf&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>When he isn't in action being heroic for a good cause, Mr Lagoy spends his day as an IT service desk team leader at Bayer.<\/p>\n<p>But the costume he has chosen has something of a personal significance, it seems, given that, as the news provider reports, he is a New Yorker who moved to Newbury in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent time stationed at the Air Force station RAF Greenham Common during the 1980s as a member of the US Air Force. He even met his wife when he was there.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Help for Heroes is set get a share of a predicted over &pound;15 million that's set to be raised through an upcoming Tower of London event.<\/p>\n<p>Combat Stress and various other service charities will also be helped by a share of this sum &ndash; the amount that Historic Royal Palaces has said it hopes will be gathered by Tower installation 'Blood Set Lands and Seas of Red ' if every poppy created for this initiative is sold to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The installation, featuring more than 800,000 ceramic flowers, is set to happen at the Tower of London between August and November this year to help mark the centenary of World War One.<\/p>\n<p>Poppies from the piece are set to be sold off for &pound;25 each after it begins.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801722776-ADNFCR\" 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