A RUNNER who works for one of the town’s top technology firms has run the equivalent of 10 marathons in 10 days.

Determined Christophe Lasne, who works for Malvern Instruments as a customer support manager based in Paris in France, was taking part in the gruelling Paris Val d’Yvette-Londres en courant, which started in the French capital.

He crossed the finishing line in London cheered on by a dozen colleagues from the firm’s Malvern headquarters.

Mr Lasne was raising money for Aid et Action, a charity promoting access to education and improvements to childcare in poorer nations globally.

So far he has raised £5,072 for his cause.

Malvern Instruments – which manufactures precision- engineered laboratory and analysis kit – sponsored Mr Lasne.

After testing himself to the limit of endurance, he crossed the finishing line at the Olympic park site in Stratford, East London.

Showing their support, 13 employees from the Malvern site on the Enigma Business Park in Grovewood Road took a coach down to the capital to meet him, joining him in running the last six miles of the run.

Catherine Egan, of Malvern Instruments, said: “Christophe was very pleased to have his UK colleagues’ support and thanked us all for joining him on the last leg.”

James Taplin – lead software test engineer – who was among the Malvern team joining Christophe for the final leg, said: “Many of the French runners had already completed in excess of 28 miles (for the final leg), so by the time we joined them I think they were glad to run the last leg at a steady pace.”

Mr Lasne said: “It is fantastic that Malvern has helped this charity with a donation but it means so very much more to me to have the support of the UK runners here to join us.”

He decided to back the charity after seeing the work it was doing in Guinea, West Africa, while he was there on a business trip.