I love Gregg’s so much I ran a MARATHON around all 29 branches in Newcastle and had a sausage roll in each one
A FITNESS fanatic ran a marathon around all 29 Greggs branches in Newcastle — eating a sausage roll at each.
Bradley Whalen-Griffiths, 29, loves the bakery chain — which began in the city in 1951 — so built it into his 26-mile training routine.
He consumed 9,600 calories during the five-and-a-half-hour run — twice as much as he burnt and nearly four times the daily recommended amount for a man.
Each pork baked treat contains 331 calories and, in all, they cost Bradley £36.80.
He said: “I started to struggle in the city centre as there are so many Greggs close to one another — I was eating and running, eating and running.
“I can polish off six sausage rolls easily but this was some feat, even for me.”
The ship’s navigation officer, of South Shields, South Tyneside, is in training for the 34-mile Lakeland Trails ultra marathon in the Lake District next summer.
He said: “I have to get used to eating while running, although I don’t think you’re supposed to eat sausage rolls.
“I saw other people had walked around all the Greggs before but that wasn’t enough of a challenge.
“My go-to Greggs order is a katsu chicken bake but the sausage roll is iconic and the only fitting baked good for this challenge.”
Bradley started at Greggs on Kingston Park, west of the city, then headed to the West End and all the way along the Quayside past the Tyne Bridge.
He grabbed another sausage roll at the store in Walker in the east, before heading back to finish in the city centre.
He added: “I ate around 9,600 calories but only burned off half of that, so I ate a bit lighter the next day.
“Surprisingly, I didn’t get a stitch while I was running.
“A friend joked about doing a festive bake marathon, but I think that might be too heavy.”