Wearing bionic suit, former event rider began half-marathon on Wednesday and finished Sunday to raise funds for charity A paralysed pregnant woman wearing a bionic suit has completed the Great North Run five days after she started it. Claire Lomas, from Leicestershire, was paralysed from the chest down in a riding accident in 2007, which left her with a fractured neck, dislocated back, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and pneumonia.