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Page creator: Ed Dowding
Event: Artemis Great Kindrochit Quadrathlon 2008
Event Date: 12th Jul 2008
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Mercy Corps works amid disasters, conflicts, chronic poverty and instability to unleash the potential of people who can win against nearly impossible odds. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than £750 million in assistance to people in 106 nations. Supported by headquarters in Europe and North America the agency's global programmes employ 3,500 staff worldwide and reach more than 16.4 million people in over 35 countries. Over the past five years, more than 89% of the agency's resources have been allocated directly to programmes that help people in need. For more information please visit www.mercycorps.org.uk Charity Registration No SC030289
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Apparently as you go into your 30s your stamina is increases. I dearly hope this is true, else things are not going to be pretty in two weeks time.

In a few weekends I'm doing a quadrathlon in Scotland

  • Swim - 1.5k (0.8 miles) across a loch
  • Run/Walk - taking in seven Munro's  (approx 24k or 15 miles)
  • Kayak - 11k (7 miles) back to the start (grrrr... why the START dammit?!)
  • Cycle - around Loch Tay 54k (34 miles)
That means travelling about 60 miles under our own steam, up down and round and round. That's SAS in the Falklands levels of hardcore.

This really is going to be the hardest thing I've ever done in one go, and needless to say I'm not doing it for fun. Well, not that much. The before and after might be fun but there's going to be about 13 hours of the doing it that isn't. So this email is just to try to get you to give MercyCorps some money.

MercyCorps (http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/) is actually doing some really good stuff, which ISN'T your normal run of the mill "save one poor kid" kind of economic squandering -- they're investing in carbon neutral job creation (eg solar panels in Bosnia and micro hydro-power in Colombia - http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/topics/environment) and microfinancing (http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/countries/indonesia/2481), which has got to be the #1 way of genuinely making a difference (I strongly recommend Banker to the Poor by Nobel Prize winner Mohammed Yunus, and Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins if you'd like a few remarkable reads why this is the case).

Go on, you've read this far you might as well. What's a tenner? It's about 2 drinks, right? Would you bet me two drinks to do this? Well there you go then. Worth it just to see the the stupid kid do something stupid. 

If you do donate - THANK YOU!

If you don't donate - seriously... 10 quid... that's... just think how much of a difference that can make to someone else who isn't you... ok example: I was in Buenos Aires a few months ago and £10 bought dinner and wine for 5 people. In the crappy countries money buys LOTS. All we're doing here is empowering YOUR £10 note. We're taking it from being a relatively crappy amount of money and turning it into the King of Everything, and giving it the powers to save the world. The £10 note that you once owned is going to save the world! Because YOU made it happen! EPIC!

Display Name Date Amount Tax Bonus  Comment
All the Honeys 18/07/2008 £50.00 £14.10 we're proud of you cuz! 
John Hornbaker 15/07/2008 £10.00 n/a Here's 10 quid, paid for in cheap USD :) 
Geoffrey Stuart Dowding 15/07/2008 £30.00 £8.46 Seems like pushing water uphill but its all in a good cause. Great expectations! 
Alice 11/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 I know you're being a hero and everything, but don't be a wuss about the rain or the midges. The sun shines from within, etc :) 
Lucy 09/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Ohhh, this is what you're doing!! hahaha, Cycle fast, Row slow, and Run like the wind. (pls note oxford comma there)  
Chloe Critchley 08/07/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Good luck! 
Kat Butter Fingers 01/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Give me a d..D, give me a o...O! You get the picture! x 
Ben Saunders 01/07/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Banzai! 
Simon C 01/07/2008 £15.00 n/a Good luck you crazy bastard 
Sarah Dowding 30/06/2008 £50.00 £14.10 Go bro! 
Tom P 30/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 well done everybody! 
Richard Livsey 30/06/2008 £50.00 £14.10 Yet again, you're making me look lazy! Good on ya, good luck! 
Nardia 30/06/2008 £10.00 £2.82 Go forth and empower my tenner. 
Ali Norman 12/06/2008 £100.00 £28.21 Good luck and all the best. 
Sophie 10/06/2008 £100.00 £28.21 You are the change in action! x 
Emma Serlin 05/06/2008 £10.00 n/a Go forth and conquer! xx 
Michael Keillor 03/06/2008 £20.00 £5.64 Loch Tay, if the hills and weather don't get you, the locals will.... Looking forward to your invasi 
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