This is meant to be hard...

Kev keeping going despite sleepless nights and fatigue

- JEREMY ARMSTRONG

FEAR of failure has been keeping Kevin Sinfield awake at night despite the sheer exhaustion of his epic 230-mile charity run.

The 44-year-old rugby league legend was given a hero's reception in Yorkshire yesterday on the fifth leg of his challenge to run seven 31-mile ultra-marathons in seven days.

When the Mirror joined him in Hull, it had raised almost £600,000 for motor neurone disease charities in memory of his former Leeds Rhinos team-mate Rob Burrow, who died from the condition in June.

Kevin told us: "You turn up at places like this, and you realise what has been created. All the kids on the streets, coming out of school to see us, all in support of the MND community.

"The response has been incredible.