Hello,

I am a fat man who is going run 10 kilometres, painfully, for a superb mental illness charity called Rethink. Please help me feel better by supporting my excruciating journey.

Rethink not only provide recovery-focused services to people with mental illnesses and carers, they also successfully campaign to promote equality and remove mental health prejudice in everyday life. They're great. I work for them so I should know. Take a look at www.rethink.org, and also www.facebook.com/rethinkcharity, and also again www.twitter.com/rethink_

People affected by severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder do not constitute a particularly fashionable, glamorous or heartrending cause - and that's a good thing in some ways, but it does mean that it can be hard to get people to donate some money and help.

So if you need more emotive imagery, I hope that my desperate, red-faced struggle against gravity and flab over ten kilometres will move you to tears and a generous dose of sponsorship.

Thanks,

Chris