NO WONDER baby Greg Brown is fast on his feet.

Although he is just four months old he has already run the gruelling Wilmslow half marathon.

He takes after his mum Julie Brown, 37, who ran the 13 and a half mile road race when she was just three weeks pregnant and was up for the challenge again after giving birth to Greg just 14 weeks earlier.

"I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, " said Julie of Clough Avenue, Lacey Green.

And she did just that finishing in astonishing two hours five minutes - 10 minutes short of her speed in 2005 while Greg was in her womb.

Now she is hoping that Greg, whose birth weight was ten pounds eight ounces, will follow in her footsteps.

So far he is showing all the right signs.

"He is dead active, never still for a moment so maybe he will take to running like his mum," she said.

Julie only started to sprint six years ago to accompany her elder son, Jack, 12, who took up running round the park to keep fit for football.

Since then she has completed the Flora London Marathon, the Manchester Marathon, three LLandudno ten mile chases and four Wilmslow Half Marathons.

Every day she ties up her running shoes and covers no less than three miles.

That is topped up during the summer by weekly sessions at the athletics track in Wythenshawe.

It is a sport shared by all the family as Jack, a keen footballer, often goes out for a jog and Luke eight, likes to run as does foster child Shane.

"We all enjoy it and it keeps us fit and healthy," Julie said. But she admitted it was "very hard to juggle alongside the demands of a new baby in the house."

That is where husband Nick, 45, a plasterer by trade, comes in. "I've got a good husband who gives me a lot of support. I couldn't do it without Nick.

"He's even put a cabinet up to put my medals in. He's my rock," she said.

But does he think she is mad... "no he thinks I'm marvellous," she laughed.

Julie, who worked for nine years as a carer in the community is now a foster parent.

She said she enjoyed sport at school but as a pupil of Dean Row High School, there was no glimpse of what was to follow.

Julie ran the Wilmslow Half Marathon to raise money for the Brian Paolo appeal to purchase ventilator equipment which helped save the life of the Wilmslow granddad and alleviate his breathing condition so that he could attend the wedding of his daughter, Anne Marie.

She raised £500 thanks to family and friends who supported her.