Leeds Rhinos legend Kevin Sinfield raises over £1.3m in memory of pal Rob Burrow

And now he has set his sights on the Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford as the finishing line for next year’s fundraising challenge for motor neurone disease charities.

At the weekend he declared “mission accomplished” after completing the final leg of of his 7 in 7: Together venture when arriving back home at Headingley Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Over the course of seven days the former Leeds and England captain ran seven ultramarathons – around 185 miles in total – to raise an additional £1.3million for MND treatment and research.

He initially aimed to raise £777,777 to honour Rob Burrow’s shirt number after he sadly died in 2024 following a brave battle with MND for four-and-a-half years.

It was his sixth endurance challenge and has now raised over £11m since Burrow was diagnosed with the muscle wasting condition in 2019 and the 45-year-old is planning a poignant end to challenge seven, which was Burrow’s shirt number.

“The first thing I did when I got on the coach last Sunday when we were on our journey down to Ipswich was to speak to Tristan, who plans our routes, to say to him, ‘next year this is what I want it to look like’,” Sinfield told BBC Breakfast.

“Can you start to work out distance over seven days and what that looks like – so that’s pretty much planned.

“We’re going to go a little bit earlier and the plan is to finish at the Super League Grand Final, which will be on October 3, and almost finish back where we started.

“The first challenge was in the north, in Leeds and Oldham where I’m from, but to bring it back to Rob and back to rugby league heartland… hopefully we’ll run right across the M62 and back to Old Trafford.

“The great thing is the momentum is getting stronger and better.

“We didn’t know how much fuel it would have left but someone’s thrown a couple of extra pieces of coal on there so we’re looking forward to next year.”